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In some regions, your Facebook privacy settings will be defaulted to more private options if you're under the age of 18.
If you sign up for a Facebook account and are under 16, you will be opted in to our suggested privacy settings for a more private experience.
You can view and adjust your privacy settings at any time from the Audience and visibility section of Settings & privacy. These are some of the settings that you can adjust:
- Profile details
- How people find and contact you
- Posts
- Stories
- Reels
- Followers and public content
- Profile and tagging
- Blocking
Note: Some of these settings may change based on your profile type.
Adjust your privacy settings
- Click your profile picture in the top right of Facebook.
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Select
Settings and privacy, then click
- Under Audience and visibility, click the option that you want to change for privacy.
For other things that you share on Facebook, you can select the audience before you share. Review Facebook privacy policies and manage your privacy settings in the Privacy Centre.
Review and manage your information on Facebook:
- Update your Feed preferences to see more content that you're interested in.
- You can also hide an ad that isn't interesting or useful to you or review why you're seeing a particular ad.
- Walk through Privacy Checkup to make sure that you're sharing your information with who you want.
- Visit Access your information to see and manage your Facebook information, or Download your Facebook information for review.
- Manage some of the content you share on Facebook, such as posts, photos and videos, from the Manage Activity section of your activity log.
- Learn how to manage what others can see about you.
