The new feature of Facebook, that is the Timeline would make it difficult for you to hide previous posts which you now don’t want others to read and view. Once the timeline appears, it will be very easy for your friends to search each and every post that you have ever made on the site.
Don’t get panicky as there are a couple of ways to your previous posts. This should be done within five days as the Timeline will go live after that as all the posts will become visible after that. Following are the ways to go about it.
Make all Posts Friends Only
You can do so by going to your Privacy settings and then:
- Click on the “Limit the Audience for past posts”.
- Click on this tab and all your post will be visible only to friends from then on.
The only problem with this setting is that, in case you have tagged anyone is a previous post, then the person and his/her friends will be able to view the post.
Limit Others Posts on your Timeline
This is another convenient way to hide previous posts and limit the viewership by others. For this you need to go to the Privacy Settings Page and then:
- Click on the “Edit Settings” tab, followed by “How to Connect”.
- Choose the “Custom” option from the list that is displayed
- Then click on the “Hide this from” option that appears. Over here you can give a list of the people from whom you wish to hide your previous posts.
- Click on “Save Changes” after doing so.
Manually edit each post
This is a tedious task and in case your account is more than a year old, this is practically impossible. The Timeline segregates posts year wise and then breaks down into months, so you can simply hover a particular month and hide a post of that month, by changing its settings.
And to make sure what your profile looks like to others, there is the “View Profile as” option, so you will know exactly you’re your profile looks like to others.
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