20+ Overlooked Facebook Timeline Tips You Must Know!

For those of you who know me, I’m all about ‘details’ when it comes to step by step how-to’s. This week, I’m going to chill a bit as I’m taking a few days off to spend some quality time with my little girl –  she’s 6 months old now and learning how to crawl! So if you could bear with this new mom, I promise more quality content is on the way. Be sure to stay subscribed so you won’t miss it!

Without further ado, I’ll share with you some Facebook tips I bookmarked over the months, courtesy of Social @ Blogging Tracker Page. Hopefully they will improve your Facebook experience as much as they helped mine.

20+ Facebook Security Tips and Timeline Features

For Personal Profiles:

#1  To View Upcoming Birthdays

Facebook has been great in ‘remembering’ our friends’ birthdays. You can view upcoming birthdays via this link (visibility depends on your friends’ privacy settings) and even the option to export the info.

#2  To Hide Likes from Your Timeline

For those who have yet hidden their ‘Likes’ from Public before the launch of Timeline (but wanted to), go to this Favorites -> ‘Favorites’ -> Scroll down to locate ‘Other Pages You Like‘ -> Adjust your audience selector.

#3  To Secure Your Facebook Account

Go to your Account Settings -> General -> Password ->Edit. Make sure ‘Log me out of my apps and other browsers’ is ticked at ALL times.

#4  To Review Your Security Information

You can edit all your security info here except your security question.

#5  To Declutter Your News Feed with Acquaintances List

You can add friends to your Acquaintances List to see them less in your news feed. Go to this link –> select ‘Acquaintances’ and start configuring your list.

#6  To Find Out Who Your Friends Subscribe to

Get Suggested Subscriptions from your friends based on the people they subscribe to.

In the mean time, I’d love to connect with you on Facebook as well:

#7  To Remove All Imported Contacts

If you had previously allowed Facebook to import your contacts from your email services to find friends, you may consider removing all those info here.

#8  To Disable Tag Suggestions from Friends

Go to this link -> Timeline and Tagging -> Edit Settings ->  ‘Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?’ -> set to ‘No One’.

#9  To Setup Tag-Review and Manage Tagged Items

To enable review before a tag from a friend goes live, go to your Privacy Settings-> Timeline and Tagging -> Edit Settings -> Turn ‘On’ both ‘Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline‘ and ‘Review tags friends add to your own posts on Facebook’.

This privacy setting is not enough to stop friends from posting the tag on his/her own Timeline, including others whom their names had been tagged along with yours and approved it. That’s why you need to un-tag yourself sometimes. Select ‘Remove tag‘ in your Timeline and choose one of the options:

• Remove the tag,
• Request to take the post down,
• Block your friend.

#10  To Download Your Personal Info and Enhanced Archive

Besides your personal info, there’s an extra enhanced archive you should know about. Go to Account Settings -> Download a copy of your Facebook data -> Request to download archive. Secondly, click ‘expanded archive‘ as shown below and proceed with the second request.

#11  To Hide Your Chat Status

Access ‘Advanced Settings’ to adjust your online status to stay visible/invisible to a selected group of friends.

#12  To Convert New Page Back to Personal Account

Only use this form if you accidentally converted your personal account into a Page. Also, make sure you’re adhering to Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, that is, personal profile is only for individual person and not a brand name.

#13  To Follow Up Your Pending Friend Requests

I have been using this tip for quite some times now and so far, everything works great so thought I’ll give this another shout out: lists rock!

For Facebook Pages:

#14  To View All Latest Photo Comments

Do you know you can switch to ‘Comment view’ for your photos? Go to Page Photos -> select the photo album -> click ‘Comment View’.

#15  To Hide Your Page Update from News Feed

When ‘Use Facebook as your page‘, an option ‘Hide from News Feed‘ is available to adjust your posting. I ran a test with it earlier and found it to be useful if want to squeeze in past events in your page Timeline.

#16  To Highlight a Comment via Permalink

Particularly useful if you want to refer to a specific comment in a long comment thread.

#17  To Assign a Destination Tab is Possible… in Facebook Ads

You can assign a landing tab for your target audience when using Facebook Ads! Go to your page’s Build Audience -> Create an Ad to look for the option.

#18  To Add a Page to Interest List

Interest Lists are different from friend lists, they can be public viewable (unless you set them private). Encourage your fans to add you to their interest list or configure a resourceful list for your fans (with your page in it) to subscribe to.

#19  Useful, Official Facebook Links

• Newsroom: Facebook’s latest news, announcements and media resources
• Facebook Success Stories
• Facebook Guides to Success
• Facebook Glossary
• To Report abuse on Facebook
• Facebook Messenger app for Windows

#20  Practical Ways to Improve Your Facebook Page

• Enhance Your Page with Custom Apps and theseTimeline Ready Apps(not forgetting to secure your personal profile with essential Privacy Settings),
• Make Full Use of your Cover Photo,
• Improve Fans Engagement with Facebook Applications and Creative Page Updates.

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