When someone visits your Facebook account or you visit someone else's, you'll see their profile page first. If you think about it, it represents the basic details of our social life. So it should be good, concise and limited to some extent.
Contents1. Hide friends list2. Add a biography3. Add featured photos4. Hide things from the timeline5. Hide or delete multiple messages6. View profile as someone else7. Change display modeConclude!
Facebook provides a bunch of options to enhance your profile. If you don't like keeping everything public, you can restrict most things. You don't need to dig into the settings. We've done the work for you.
Here you will find seven tips and tricks to take your Facebook profile to the next level.
Let's start.
If you don't want others to see your friends list, you can simply hide it from your profile. Luckily, Facebook gives you several privacy options to hide the friends list. You can choose between three options:only friends, only me or keep it visible for a custom group.
To hide your friends list, follow the steps:
Step 1: Click the little down arrow in the upper right corner and select Settings from the list menu.
Step 2: Select Privacy in the left column.
Step 3: Next, under the "How people can find and contact you" option, click Edit next to Who can see your friends list. Choose the appropriate option from the drop-down list.
As they say, "The first impression is the last impression", whatever someone notices first on your Facebook profile, they will judge you on that basis. You should be familiar with the About You section under the About option. It's been around for ages. You can add a suitable description of yourself here, including details like birthday, job, etc.
However, I am not talking about that. On your profile page, you get a separate little section where you can add a brief introduction about yourself. This will be directly visible to everyone when someone opens your profile.
To add a short biography, go to your profile page and click on the Add biography button.
It is not surprising that pictures convey emotions better than words. So why not put a photo or two as your featured image? Well, similar to bio, you can add featured images to your profile. You can have up to five photos, and they will always be public. This means anyone can see them, whether they're on your friends list or not.
To add a featured image, open your profile page and click the Add to Feature button. In the pop-up window that appears, click on any box and choose your image. You can choose an existing one or upload a new one.
Facebook recently introduced the Archive feature for Stories. A similar one has been there for messages for quite some time now. I'm talking about the Hide Messages option. If you don't like a post on your profile and deleting it seems like a big step, you can just hide it from your own timeline. In fact, you can even hide people on your Facebook.
Note: The publication will be hidden only on your profile. If you shared a post, it will still be available on the original profile.To hide a post, click on the three dots icon present at the top right corner of the post. Then select Hide from timeline. A pop-up window will appear. Click Hide to confirm.
To view hidden posts, go to the activity log. In the options on the left, select Hidden from timeline.
From time to time, we all like to clean up our Facebook timeline. There are things we published years ago that we disagree on now. It would be difficult to delete all these messages if one had to do it manually.
Luckily, Facebook lets you easily hide or delete multiple items. All you have to do is click the Manage Posts button on your profile. Then select the posts and click the Next button at the bottom. On the next screen, choose whether you want to hide or delete posts.
Pro Tip :You can also delete yourself using this method to remove tags from multiple photos and posts.
Now that you have made all the changes to your Facebook profile, you would be curious to know what it looks like for someone in particular or for the general public. Guess what? You don't need to create a new account or ask others to send you a screenshot, Facebook lets you do it yourself.
On your profile page, click the View as button. By default, you'll see what the profile looks like for the general public. If you want to search for a specific person, click on the Show as specific person button present at the top. Then enter the name of the person.
Not so long ago, the Facebook profile was limited to the list view. All your status updates, images or videos that you have shared on your timeline can be seen only in list form. But that has changed and now you can switch between list view and grid view.
While List view displays full content, Grid view only displays media content such as images, videos, etc. You must click on the media to view or interact with it.
By default, all articles are in list mode. To switch to grid view, click the Grid View button. Interestingly, the Grid view makes it very easy to view old posts.
So here are some of the great tips to give your Facebook profile a new look. Although Facebook offers many options for the profile page, I wish they could tone it down a bit. He feels cluttered now. Hope to see them make some exciting changes soon, otherwise Instagram is still here.
