How to change the share setting on facebook
How to Allow People to Share Your Post on Facebook
You can easily allow people to share your post on Facebook on a computer or mobile device. Shutterstock
- You can allow people to share your post on Facebook without changing the privacy settings on your actual account.
- You can do this by changing the privacy settings on the post itself.
- If you have an important message you want to get out, or want to share something you created with the world, sharing your post on Facebook would be an effective way to do so.
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If you're the type of person who often makes long, informative posts on Facebook, you've probably gotten the request, "Can you make this shareable?," a few times before.
Facebook's sharing feature is a great way to allow folks to spread posts, in their entirety, from the original source, instead of just reposting.
People share posts for all kinds of reasons: Maybe it contains an encouraging message, or gives information about a serious issue that many people are unaware of. Maybe it talks about an event that's going on, or asks people for help with a GoFundMe for a good cause. No matter what the reason or what the post, allowing people to share them always works the same way.
Here's how to allow people to share your post on Facebook.
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How to allow people to share your post on Facebook on a computer
1. Find the post you want to make shareable and click the three dots in the upper right corner.
2. In the little pop up menu, click "Edit Post."
Click the three dots and then "Edit Post." Melanie Weir/Business Insider3. At the bottom of the post pop-up, next to the "Save" button, click the drop-down menu to bring up the post's privacy settings.
4. From the menu, select "Public," then click Save.
How to allow people to share your post on Facebook on a mobile device
1. Find the post you want to make shareable and tap the three dots in the upper right corner.
Find the post, then tap the three dots in the corner. Melanie Weir/Business Insider2.
In the pop-up menu, tap "Edit Privacy."
3. In the "Privacy" menu, tap the checkbox next to "Public," then tap "Done" in the upper right corner of the screen.
Tap "Public", then tap "Done." Melanie Weir/Business Insider
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How to Allow Sharing on Facebook
Specify who you want to see your posts
Being active on social media sites like Facebook or Instagram can be a rewarding way to stay in touch with friends and acquaintances.
Social media sites are made for sharing, but chances are you’ve seen this comment on someone else’s post: “Is it okay for me to share your post? Can you make it shareable?”
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This happens when a post hasn’t been made public. In other words, if the privacy settings on the original post are set to “Friends Only,” then that post will lack the Share button.
Fortunately, adjusting the privacy settings to allow sharing on a Facebook post is easy, and we’ll show you how below.
How to Allow Sharing on Facebook Posts
There are two main ways to allow sharing on Facebook. You can either make a specific post shareable, or you can change your default Facebook timeline privacy settings so that all your future posts are made public.
First, let’s run through how to make a specific post shareable, either on a computer or on Facebook’s mobile app.
How to Allow Sharing on Facebook on a Computer
Setting your Facebook post’s audience to public will make your post shareable.
- From Facebook’s homepage on a computer, click into the “What’s on your mind” field or select the Create button with the plus sign next to your profile pic in the top-right corner, and then select Post.
- Note the post’s audience. Privacy/audience settings appear directly underneath your profile name in the Create Post popup.
Depending on your default settings, the audience for your post might already be set to public.
- Click on the dropdown arrow to select your audience.
- If you want your post to be shareable, select Public for your audience.
- Verify that your post is public by looking for the globe icon on your post. Note also that the Share button appears below your post.
Now you’re good to go. Anyone on Facebook will be able to view and share your post.
How to Allow Sharing of Your Facebook Post on Mobile
Setting your post’s audience to Public is just as easy on mobile.
- Open your Facebook app and tap into the “What’s on your mind” field.
- Select the audience dropdown below your profile name.
- Next, set your post’s audience to Public.
- Hit the back arrow to return to your post.
- Finally, when you’re finished writing your post, select the Post button, and you’re done!
How to Do a Privacy Checkup on Facebook
If you want all your future posts on Facebook to be set to a public audience, you can change your Timeline’s default settings.
The easiest way to do that is to go through Facebook’s Privacy Checkup.
How to Run Facebook’s Privacy Checkup on a Computer
Facebook’s Privacy Checkup is easily-accessible on a desktop browser.
- Log into facebook.com.
- Click the dropdown arrow in the very top-right corner of the browser window, just to the right of your profile photo.
- Select Settings & Privacy.
- Select Privacy Checkup.
- There are lots of options here. To change your default post audience, select Who can see what you share, and Facebook will launch a wizard taking you through all the steps to change who can see your profile information, who can see your posts and stories, and who you have blocked from seeing you on Facebook.
How to Run Facebook’s Privacy Checkup on Mobile
You can launch Facebook’s privacy checkup on mobile, too.
- Open the Facebook app on your mobile device, and login if you’re not already.
- Select the menu icon to access the main menu. Scroll down until you see Settings & Privacy.
- Next, tap Privacy Shortcuts.
- Select Review a few important privacy settings.
- That takes you to Facebook’s Privacy Checkup. From here, if you want to change your default audience settings, choose Who can see what you share, and proceed through the wizard. The wizard will take you through who can see your profile information, who can see your posts and stories, and who you have blocked from seeing you on Facebook.
You may have noticed that there are multiple places where you can change your privacy settings on Facebook. It’s a good idea to review these settings from time to time, ensuring that your privacy settings are configured the way you want.
Go Forth and Be Shared
Now that you’ve made it easy for other people to share your Facebook posts, you’d better post something worth sharing!
Knowing that “video and animated content does far better than photos when it comes to social networks and the internet in general,” here’s an idea for you: Learn how to make your photos come alive with our article on 6 Ways To Animate Still Photos Online Or With App.
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Anything you add to your story will appear on Facebook and Messenger. The story will be seen by the same audience in these apps.
You decide who you share your story with and can change your settings at any time.
To change history privacy settings:
Add a photo or video you want to share in your story.
Click the icon below Your Story and select an audience:
Public - Your story will be visible to friends and followers on Facebook, as well as people you interact with on Messenger. In this case, only your friends will be able to answer it.
Friends - Only your Facebook friends will see your story in the Facebook and Messenger apps, but not your Messenger contacts.
Custom Audience - Your story will be seen by the people you choose.
Click Change.
To hide your story from certain people:
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Open the Facebook app for iOS or Android.
Set the audience to Friends for the story.
Click Hide history from.
Select the people you want to hide your story from.
Click Done or the icon at the top of the screen, and then click Save.
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Add the photo or video you want to share to your story.
Tap the icon under Your Story and select Friends.
Click Hide history from.
Select the people you want to hide your story from.
Select Save and click in the upper left corner of the screen.
The people you added to the Restricted Access list will not be able to see your history.
Is it possible to change the audience of an already published story?
Changes made to the story's privacy settings will be applied to all existing and future photos and videos in the story. You can change these settings at any time.
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There are no so-called "private profiles" on Facebook, when information about the user is available only to him. However, this does not mean at all that the social network toolkit does not contain the components necessary to protect information. Each user is able, using individual settings, to determine the degree of accessibility of the information contained in his profile.
Facebook's privacy settings are responsible for this segment. This is a very extensive section in the settings menu. In addition, users should be aware that the social network offers them to choose the privacy settings for the published content.
When placing a post or any information, the user can see icons in the form of a padlock, a silhouette or a globe next to the field to be filled. They are the regulation of the degree of confidentiality of information and content posted on the social network. What is not for prying eyes should be marked with a padlock, since this level of confidentiality means that the publication is completely closed to everyone except the account owner.
Setting privacy in your personal profile
In the desktop version of Facebook, you can block access to your personal profile in the following way:
- Log in to your profile using your username and password.
- Click on the triangle icon on the right side of the screen.
- Open the "Settings and Privacy" section, and in it - "Settings".
- Select the "Privacy" option from the list on the left side of the screen.
- In this subsection, open each menu item through "Edit" and set the desired degree of confidentiality at your discretion. In particular, this can be done with:
- future publications;
- access to existing publications;
- friend requests;
- e-mail address availability;
- phone number availability;
- profile availability for search engines;
If there is a desire that any information in the Facebook profile should not be available to outsiders at all, and if privacy settings apply to it, then you can safely use the "Only me" option.
Only allow some friends: if there is something that can only be accessed by some friends, then you can give them access using the "Specific Friends" access.
Exclude only some: there is an option "Friends except", which optionally allows you to filter access to users who are in the friends list.
Important! Every Facebook user should know how to check the availability of personal information that he entrusts to the social network.
To do this:
- Go to your personal profile.
- Go to the "Information" tab.
- Open the sections one by one from the left column.
- On the right, when you hover over individual items, an icon is activated with which you can edit the degree of confidentiality.
In particular, if you don't want everyone to know where you work, remove the default globe icon in the Work and Education section. Select, for example, "Friends only". The same is desirable to do with the email address and phone number.
Hide information in the mobile version
When using a social network using a mobile device, you can hide information that is not supposed to be available, so to speak, to the general public.
What you need to do:
- In the application, click on the icon in the form of three stripes.
- Open the Privacy Settings section.
- Follow the on-screen wizard to guide you through the settings you want.
- The most important settings are at the top of the section. This is personal information, which is definitely not desirable to fall into unauthorized hands.
- Using the profile management option, you can both adjust your privacy settings and, if necessary, make adjustments to the information.
- For users who are not particularly versed in the intricacies of the social network, the application provides a convenient interactive guide.
The lower part of the section is given for options that are responsible for the degree of confidentiality of publications, subscriptions and stories. In the same place, if necessary, you can configure accessibility levels.
Privacy page
As you know, the page is a kind of account on Facebook, available to all users. Therefore, the page cannot be closed.
But certain actions can be taken to regulate the degree of confidentiality.
- Unpublish the page. The corresponding option is available in the page settings next to "Page status". Click "Edit" and thus unpublish the page. This is necessary if there is a desire to make the page available only to people for whom certain roles are registered on the page. Other users will not see the page. It will also not show up in search engines.
- Restrict access to unwanted visitors. Such a response can be applied to, for example, spammers or haters. This is done in the following way:
- in the "Settings" tab, select the "People and other pages" section;
- using the classifier, select the category you need in this section;
- enter the name of the unwanted user in the search, then click on the gear, and then on "Deny access".
If an unwanted publication appears on the page, you need to click on the name of its author, then on the ellipsis and click "Deny access to the page."
- Age and country restrictions. You can enter a restriction for access to the page by such parameters as age and territory of residence. The latter is important if the page contains content that is contrary to the laws of any country. And the restrictions will protect the inhabitants of these countries from risks.
To introduce these restrictions, you need to:
- open the "General" section in the settings;
- open in this section the subdivision "Restrictions by countries";
- enter the name of the country and the corresponding setting for displaying this page in this country.
If you need to enter a restriction for users of a certain age, then in the "General" section there is a subsection "Age restrictions".
Group access restriction
Facebook groups can also set different levels of accessibility for users who are not members of these communities.
By this parameter, groups are divided into: - open : they are indexed in search engines, the list of their members and the content posted in the group is publicly available, you can send requests to join the group;
- secret : not indexed in search engines, the list of participants and publications are available only to participants;
- private : indexed by search engines, but the member list and content is only available to members.
Group privacy settings on Facebook have some specifics: you can only change the privacy level of a group once every 28 days. If the group has less than 5 thousand members, there are no problems with group status changes. But if the number of participants is more than 5 thousand, and the group positions itself as closed, it will not be able to switch to open status.
How to change the status of a group:
- Click the More button below the cover, then Edit Group Settings.
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