The Audience Selector

The Audience Selector

In addition to your general privacy settings, you can control who sees every post you share with the audience selector. This allows you to change your default privacy settings and make posts more private or less private. If you change your mind later, you can go back and reset the privacy for that post at any time.

To Use the Audience Selector:

Keep in mind that modifying the audience selector will change the default audience setting for future posts. You should always double check the audience selector before sharing anything on Facebook.

1. When you're ready to share you post, click the audience selector.
   
   Clicking the audience selector
2. Choose the desired audience. In this example, we'll choose Friends.
   
   Setting privacy with the audience selector
3. The post will be shared with the selected audience. All future posts will be shared with the most recently selected audience unless it is changed again.
   
   The new default audience for future posts

To reset your audience for future posts, click the audience selector, then choose the desired audience.

Resetting the default audience for future posts

Privacy Shortcuts

In late 2012, Facebook introduced Privacy Shortcuts, which give you quick access to many of the privacy settings found on the Privacy Settings and Tools page. From there, you can modify the audience selector, choose your Message Filtering settings, and more.

• To access the Privacy Shortcuts, click the Privacy Shortcuts button on the toolbar. Any changes you make here will be reflected on the Privacy Settings and Tools page.
  
  Privacy Shortcuts

Privacy Shortcuts also let you control who you'll allow to send you Friend Requests, which cannot be accessed from the Privacy Settings and Tools page.