10/3/2023: Stay private on social media

Social media privacy made easy

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Jared Newman

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October 3, 2023

I’ve always tried to be good about managing my social media privacy settings, but Facebook managed to slip a big one by me.

By default, Facebook makes all your old profile pictures and cover photos publicly visible, so anyone who looks you up can see them. Although your current profile and cover photos are always public, Facebook offers no way to automatically hide previous ones, even if they date back to, say, one’s embarrassing post-college years.