My last post seemed too complicated for some people. Too many words, not enough pictures perhaps! Here’s a five step process to ensuring that strangers can’t comment on your shared items in Facebook.

1. Open Facebook (duh)

2. Click ‘Account’ on the top right of any page.

3. Click ‘Privacy settings’ on the menu that drops down.

4. Click ‘Edit Settings’ to the right of  ‘How tags work’.

5. Turn ‘Profile review’ ON (this allows you to approve or ignore any tags BEFORE they appear on your profile.)

6. Turn Tag Review ON (this allows you to approve or ignore any tags that someone else puts on your posts.)

7. Set Profile visibility to your desired settings. Mine are set to ‘* Custom’ then to ‘only me’. I don’t want anyone else to see any posts that I’m tagged in.

8. Set ‘Tag suggestions’ to OFF. (That’s my choice, yours might be different.)

9. Turn “Friends Can Check You Into Places’ OFF. (Again, this is my choice.)

10. Click ‘Done’ on the bottom right of the menu to save your settings.

That’s it for your first round. Pat yourself on the back.

Part two is coming right up. I don’t want to make this too long!

Thanks for reading.

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