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Facebook Privacy Lockdown Checklist

Who Can See Your Facebook?

• Old posts from years ago are still public.
• Strangers can scroll your full friends list.
• Anyone with your phone number can look you up.
• Your profile shows up in Google searches.
• Websites you visit report back to Facebook.
• Your account is protected by a password and nothing else.

Facebook's default settings let it share plenty about you. Most people never change them, because the settings are spread across a dozen menus that keep moving.

This checklist puts them on one page. Work through it from top to bottom, tick each box, and finish in one sitting. You stay connected and share less.

What's inside: four sections on one page

👥 Posts & Profile: set new posts to Friends, limit years of old public posts in one step, and hide your friends list.

🔍 Who Can Find You: stop search engines linking to your profile, limit who can send friend requests, and restrict lookups by phone and email.

🎯 Tracking & Ads: clear the activity other websites and apps send to Facebook, turn off future tracking, cut back ads based on partner data, and remove old connected apps.

🔒 Account Security: turn on two-factor authentication and login alerts, review active sessions, and log out devices you don't recognise.

Who it's for

• Anyone who set up Facebook years ago and never looked at the settings again
• Parents, grandparents and anyone who wants a quieter profile
• Anyone who's had a strange friend request or a "did you post this?" message

Why it works: it turns Facebook's scattered privacy menus into one short, ordered checklist, so you can lock down posts, search, tracking and security in a single session.

📄 1-page printable PDF (US Letter) · Instant download · Unlimited personal printing

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