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.
- (Updated) Optimize your page for reach and visibility. Don’t forget to get creative with your Visual Content to attract fans’ attentions.
- (Updated) Integrate Pinterest into your Facebook Page if necessary to extend your reach.
- (Updated) More engagement tips? Don’t miss this latest post!
Update: Don’t forget to check out 9 Practical Tips to Improve Your Facebook Page Performance too!
I hope you found the above tips useful. Most of them are extracted from my Facebook Page – a place where my supporters and I communicate and help one another to improve. Why not join us and say hi? I’ll be thrilled to see you there:
Now Is Your Turn
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Lots of great tips here Ching Ya, but my favorite was the Acquaintances thing. I’ve definitely used that one. Now I have to figure out how to make sure certain people I want to follow specifically show up more often.
So glad to know the tip helps, Mitch, thanks so much for letting me know! 🙂 Up till now, customized ‘Facebook list’ is the suggested way to control our News Feed. Also I’m using browser plugin to reduce noise so people with relevant content will show up more. But yes, I do hope there’s a better way to do it.
Thanks so much for commenting, my friend.
Great list! i sure have overlooked some of it. Thanks for sharing Ching Ya. I’ll implement them on my Facebook account ASAP 🙂
Thanks so much for stopping by, Melonie. Appreciate your kind words. Good to see you’re implementing some of the mentioned tips. See you around!
I agree, the Acquaintance tip was one I didn’t even know about and will be leveraging.
Thanks so much for dropping by, Justin. Always a pleasure to know that the tip helped. 🙂 Appreciate it.
Terrific article Ching Ya. This is chock full of tips. I’m sharing it where I can. Thanks so much. (I don’t have a favorite yet.)
Hi Sherryl, so great to see you here! 🙂 Really gald you find the post useful. Thanks so much for sharing it with your network. Hugs~
Great work as per usual Ching Ya. Thank you. :0)
I’m grateful for your kind support, Oretta. Thanks for sharing this post with your fans too! 🙂
Great tips – A person needs to be vigilant to what’s being shared online in case somebody searches for you and find content that otherwise you would not have shared to them. There are a lot of privacy setting one can change to limit what is being shared online – this is an important aspect of managing your Online Reputation and Image.