Facebook help

[Muggle]

I've just logged into facebook for the first time in ages and all my privacy settings have been changed to public so I'm in a rage. I'm managed to figure out how to change most of it back. It's bloody difficult now, it used to be so simple!

I've done as much as I can but from what I've seen on the "view your profile as..." thing my profile picture and cover photo are publicly visible. How do I change them back to being visible to friends only?

It used to be set up so only my friends could message me. How do I change it back to that setting?

 

[Mel]

I don't know all that off the top of my head, but I can have a look later to see if I can't see where the settings are.

I've never been able to hide my profile and cover pics so far, but I will check for the messaging part.

 

[Mel]

Ok, from what I can see, there's a little icon with a padlock on the upper right of the page in FB. Click that and then "Who can contact me?". Then just choose "strict filtering", which means only friends can contact you. When you click "more settings" you can change some more stuff, but since you said you have done most of that stuff now, you should be good to go.

Like I said though, I have still never figured out how to hide my profile and cover pics from the public yet, and if someone can tell me how to do that, I'd be eternally grateful.

 

[Calliegirl]

You can't make the profile and cover pic private.

 

[Mel]

You can't make the profile and cover pic private.

That's what I thought. I figured if there was a way to do it, I would have found it by now.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

You can't make the profile and cover pic private.

Correct. Cover pic has always been public, and I think they changed the profile pic to always public when Timeline was rolled out.