privacy

Question 1

what can you do if you want to post to just your friends and friends of a friend (e.g. friends of your partner)?

Answer 1

1. tag the person whose friends you want to make your post available to;
2. select privacy to ‘your friends, anyone tagged, and their friends’.

Privacy is via the audience select icon, ie the icon with either a globe (for public) or silhouetted person or peeps at Top of post.

Question 2

I’d like to share some posts with a custom list of people, but I don’t want them to see who else is in the group.

Let’s say I create a custom list called “Childhood Friends.” Then I share a certain post to this list, so that it only shows up in the feeds of these particular friends.

If I understand correctly, these friends can see the name of the list that I’ve posted to, so each one knows they are on my “Childhood Friends” list.

My question: Can they see who else is in this friend list?

Can they see how many people are in this friend list?

What can they see?

Answer 2

People who can see your post (RE: i.e. this must just be the people on my list) can also see the audience you chose to share with.

When you use the Custom audience option to share a post with a list or specific people, the people you share the post with may be able to see each other’s names.

Explore, surely they can just see the name of the list via the audience icon, but not the list details?

Question 3

Who can see my photos and photos I’m tagged in on Facebook? (3)

Answer 3

Your photos and the photos you’re tagged in are visible to:
1, The audience they’re shared with.
2, The people tagged in the photo.
3, Friends that the people tagged choose to add to the audience.

Question 4

When someone re-shares something I posted, who can see it?

What’s the caveat for links shared?

Answer 4

When someone clicks Share below your post, they aren’t able to share your photos, videos or status updates through Facebook with people who weren’t in the audience you originally selected to share with.

Only the people who could see those posts when you first made them are able to see them when someone clicks Share. Use the audience selector to adjust who you share posts with.

Note: When a friend shares a link that you posted, they can share the link with a wider audience than you originally shared it with. Keep in mind that any text you added in your post will not be shared

So if u set audience to public, then people can share your content.

Question 5

If you frequently customize the audience for your posts, you might like using ** .

Answer 5

lists

Lists help you organize groups of friends.

Question 6

The person who posts something has control over the audience who can see it. Every post includes an icon that lets you see the ** .

Answer 6

audience

Question 7

How do you manage who can post on your Timeline?

You can also decide whether you want to review posts that friends tag you in before they appear on your Timeline.

Answer 7

Your profile>3 dot menu>Profile and Tagging Settings

Question 8

What’s a shared album?

What are two uses?

Answer 8

When you add ‘contributors’ to an album.

1. They can add photos or videos, tag photos, edit the album and add other contributors.
2. You’ll have a ‘privacy/ audience’ option to select only ‘contributors’ thus making it a ‘private album’.

Question 9

What can and can not contributors do with an album that you have shared?

Answer 9

They can add photos or videos, tag photos, edit the album and add other contributors.

Contributors can only edit or delete the photos they upload.

The owner of the album can delete the contributor’s photos.

When a contributor is removed, they may be able to delete photos they added to the shared album from their activity log.

Question 10

How do you make an album, or indeed any post, private?

Firstly, what do we means by private?

Answer 10

Well I guess primarily ‘private’ means that we are limiting who can see the album.

We do this by setting the privacy/ audience for the album. Only those in the ‘audience’ will be able to see the content and they won’t be able to share beyond the audience members that you have selected in your ‘audience’.

So ultimately this could mean any number of ‘audience’ settings less than ‘public’ which has no privacy.

Private could be: ‘Friends’, Friends and Friends of Friends, or a ‘Custom List’, including a list with just 1 Friend on it, or, a shared album (which has defined ‘contributors’). or it could be ‘Only Me’.

Also certain groups will mean posting inherently includes a level of privacy to the group.

Question 11

Can people download photos you have shared?

Answer 11

If you share an album or a picture with others, they can download those pictures to their computers.

If you don’t want people to save or share a particular photo (say, if you are doing something questionable or embarrassing), you probably shouldn’t upload the photo to Facebook (or anywhere online, for that matter).

Question 12

Anyone who has viewing privileges for your photos is able to copy them via the “*** “ link beneath each photo.

Answer 12

Download

To protect your photos from being copied, use the privacy settings feature to stop people from having access.

However, keep in mind that you cannot stop anyone
you give viewing privileges to from downloading your images

Question 13

Who Can See Tagged Photos?

And what happens if the photo is in a private album where the tagged person is not otherwise included in the ‘audience’?

Answer 13

If you have tagged someone in a photo, that person and their Facebook friends will be able to see it, even if you had made the photo private.

If that photo is in a private album, they will not be able to see the other photos in the album.

Question 14

How can you prevent people from downloading your shared photos?

Answer 14

Only 1 way, limiting access to those your trust.

Block nonfriends – and certain individuals you have designated as friends – from downloading your
photos on Facebook by making the photos unavailable to them in the first place.

It isn’t possible to remove the download link from the bottom left corner of photos you post to Facebook.

As a result, the only way you can prevent people from downloading photos from your Facebook account is by making the photos unavailable to them entirely.

Question 15

What’s a smart list?”

Answer 15

Smart Lists are the lists that Facebook makes on your behalf. These lists are created automatically based on your interactions with your friends and shared characteristics of your friends.

Here are some common Smart Lists:

Close friends
Acquaintances
Restricted
Family
Your high school
Your college/ university/ workplace

Question 16

Can u tag yourself, or someone else, in somebody else’s post?

Answer 16

Yes you can tag yourself.

Though the post owner may have ‘review’ on, whicy means they will approve/ decline your tagging before it goes on to their timeline.

Question 17

If you, or a friend (in your audience of the post), tags someone in your post, the post could be visible to the audience you selected BUT will it also expand visibility beyond your specified audience to the friends of the tagged person.

If the intention of tagging was just to include that person in the audience, which didn’t already include them, how can you alternatively include them without also including their friends?

Answer 17

The original poster CAN limit the audience so that friends of tagged users CAN NOT see the post.

RE: This works fine if the person tagged, or you want to tag, is in the audience already, as they will see the post.

You can NOT tag someone you want to see the post but they are outside of your audience, w/o their friends also seeing the post.

Is there a way to expand your audience to the tagged person without expanding to their friends?

Yes but NOT by tagging them - you could edit the privacy for the that individual post or picture by creating a CUSTOM audience - this could be a List plus specific friends.

This option is available from the audience selector on the individual post.

You can also limit who sees posts you’re tagged in from your privacy settings.

Question 18

Can you prohibit others from tagging in your posts?

Answer 18

There is unfortunately no way you can stop the tagging activities on Facebook, however, there are ways to control how your tagged photos and videos will appear on your Facebook Timeline.

You can certainly stipulate that you must REVIEW any tagging from others in your posts, and accept or decline.

Take note that, according to Facebook, if you select this option, your friends can still tag you and the tags may appear elsewhere on Facebook, but not on your Timeline until you decide to approve it.

Also, only people in your audience of your posts can tag your posts, as no one else can see it. So limiting audience is one way of limiting tagging in your posts.

The onus appears to be on the individual to protect themselves more than the ability of the person posting to protect others. On an individual basis you can change your settings to stipulate who can see posts that you are tagged in. I have set mine to ‘friends’ only. And not ‘friends of friends’ or public.

As a post owner you can also delete tags, but this would be after the tagging and potential audience expansion has happened. So the best bet is just to have the review setting on for any tags other people add to your post.