Some people prefer not to use Facebook to communicate with friends and family. However, in order to have a business page, you have to have a personal account first.

If you want to keep access to your personal page to a minimum to preserve your Facebook privacy, here are some tips for using it mainly as a portal to your business page.

 

Tips for Facebook Privacy

• Review the Privacy section in the settings of your Facebook account carefully.

• Be sure you have set it so your posts can only be seen by your Facebook friends.
• Review all posts and things you are tagged in, so you control what appears on your timeline.
• Allow only your Facebook friends to look you up on Facebook using your name or email address.
• Do not allow search engines outside of Facebook to link to your profile.

• Do the same for the Timeline and Tagging sections.

• Make sure you have blocked anyone from posting on your timeline.
• For those times when you allowed something you were tagged in to appear on your timeline, select the option that allows only you to see it.

• Keep your list of Facebook friends visible to you alone.

• Go to your Facebook timeline and click on the Friends tab.
• Click on the pencil icon to the right of the Find Friends button.
• Click on Manage Privacy.
• Under the question, “Who can see your friends list?” select “Only Me.”

• Put all your Facebook photos into albums and select the audience option of “Only Me” for each one

• Please note that if you have a profile photo and a cover photo, they are always visible to the public. Make them as business-like as possible.
• Individual photos can only be hidden from or shown on your timeline. Each must be marked individually.

• In the “About” section of your personal page, hide your email address, phone number, as well as your birth date and year.

• Hover your cursor to the far right of each of these items and click on Edit when it appears
• Select Only Me from the drop down options.

How About You?

Is Facebook privacy important to you? Have you opted to keep your personal information and activity on Facebook under wraps? Why? What steps have you taken to make sure this happens?

 

About Joyce

Joyce Feustel helps people, especially those age 50 and up, become more effective using social media, especially Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Twitter. She provides social media tutoring and training to business owners, business development professionals, authors, speakers, coaches, business consultants, job seekers, and many others. Find her at www.boomerssocialmediatutor.com.