Creating Your Profile

Introduction

On Facebook, you are represented by your Profile—a page that communicates who you are. Your Profile can include information about your age, gender, background, interests, hobbies, relationships, and more—or none of these things at all. You'll decide how much you want to share about yourself on your Profile.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to add details to your Profile and choose privacy levels for the information you share. We'll also talk about how to use the View As Tool and explain how Likes can affect your Profile.

Creating Your Facebook Profile

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Watch the video to learn about the different parts of your profile, including Facebook's Likes feature.

Controlling Privacy on Your Profile

Before you add any information to your Profile, you should think about how that information will affect how people think about you. This doesn't just apply to negative or embarrassing information—you may not want to share any information you would be uncomfortable sharing with every person in your life.

As with other things you share on Facebook, you can use the audience selector to set privacy levels for each part of your Profile. However, keep in mind that the only way to be certain that your information will stay private is to not share it at all. If you'd be deeply embarrassed about details of your personal life becoming public, you shouldn't share that information on your Profile.

Setting privacy levels for Profile information