How to limit access on Facebook

How to limit access on Facebook

One of useful opportunities of social networks is access restriction to the materials placed on the page of the user. Facebook allows to regulate degree of availability of the loaded images, texts and video both through account settings, and at the publication of the status, a note, video or the photo.

It is required to you

  • - account in social network Facebook;
  • - browser.

Instruction

1. The easiest way of access restriction to the materials placed on the Facebook page consists in confidentiality setup by default. To adjust its parameters, log in the account and click the extreme right button of the main menu having a triangle appearance. In the appeared list select the Confidentiality item.

2. In the opened window note the Friends point if you want contents of your page to be seen only by users from the list of friends. If you prefer to narrow or, on the contrary, to expand a circle of people to whom contents of your profile are available, select the option "Settings of the User".

3. Select in the revealing list user group who will see by default the materials placed on your page. You can select the Friends of Friends, Certain People or Lists or Only I item. The options "Friends of Friends" and "Only I" will not demand specification. After the choice of the Certain People or Lists point enter user names or names of lists of users for which your page will remain open in a text box.

4. If you want to hide contents of the page from the insignificant number of the people listed in the list of friends specify their names in the Can Not See field. This option can use and if you made the page available to friends of the friends. For saving new settings press the Save Changes button.

5. To check correctness of the selected settings, return on the page of the profile and click the Look as button. It can be seen in the top right part of a window. Having entered a user name of Facebook in a text box, you will be able to evaluate as from the point of view of this person your page looks.

6. If you want to limit access only to the few publications, can make it by means of the audience switch. The button of this switch can be seen in the lower right part of a post. Guide the pointer of the cursor at an icon and use the appeared button in the form of an arrow. Select user group of social network to which the publication will be available from the revealed list.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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