How to prevent others from finding old posts on Facebook?

Facebook's recent search feature allows you to record old posts from others (if it is set to public). Besides the positive side, this feature also causes a lot of annoyance when being scrutinized into private life, especially if you are a discreet type, surely will not support this new feature. So is there any way to limit it? Don't worry, we'll show you how to prevent others from rummaging past data on your personal Facebook page.

Facebook 's recent search feature allows you to "ransack" old posts from others (if it is set to public). Besides the positive side, this feature also causes a lot of "nuisance" when being scrutinized into private life, especially if you are a "discreet" type, it will definitely not support this new feature. So is there any way to limit it? Don't worry, we'll show you how to prevent others from "rummaging" past data on your personal Facebook page in the article below.

Step 1 : You login your Facebook account and click on the black triangle on the upper right corner and select Settings / Settings .

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Step 2 : At the Settings / Settings interface, select Privacy / Privacy in the left column and Limit post / Limit previous posts in the right column

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Step 3 : In the drop down dialog box, click Limit Old Posts / Limit posts in the past . So all the old Facebook posts that you set up public sharing (public) will be changed so that only friends can see them.

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Step 4 : In the Who can see my stuff section , click Edit to limit the sharing object for future posts.

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If you want to delete old posts on Facebook, you can follow the instructions in the article: How to delete status series, remove Facebook tags in a single click

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