When someone visits your Facebook account or visit someone else’s account, you first see their profile page. If you think about it, it represents the basic details about our social life. Therefore, it should be good, concise and to some extent limited.
Facebook offers a number of options to enhance your profile. If you don’t like to keep everything public, you can restrict most things. No need to go into settings. We did the work for you.
Here you will find seven tips and tricks to take your Facebook profile to another level.
Lets start.
1. Hide Friend List
If you don’t want others to see your friends list, you can hide it from your profile. Fortunately, Facebook gives you multiple privacy options to hide the friends list. You can choose from three options – Friends Only, Me only, or Keep visible to a private group.
To hide your friend list, follow these steps:
Stage 1: Click the small down arrow in the upper right corner and choose Settings from the list menu.
Step 2: Select Privacy from the left column.
Stage 3: Then, under ‘How people can find and contact you’, next to Who can see your Friends list, click Edit. Select the appropriate option from the drop-down box.
2. Add bio
As they say ‘first impression is last impression’, whatever a person first notices on your Facebook profile, they will judge you accordingly. You should be familiar with the About You section under the About option. It’s been there for years. birthday, work etc. You can add an appropriate description of yourself here, including details.
However, I’m not talking about that. On your profile page there is a small separate section where you can add a short introduction about yourself. This will be directly visible to everyone when someone opens your profile.
To add a small bio, go to your profile page and click the Add Bio button.
3. Add Featured Photos
It’s not surprising that pictures convey emotions better than words. So why not put an image or two as your featured image? Similar to bio, you can add featured images to your profile. You can have up to five photos and they will always be public. So anyone can see them, whether they’re on your friend list or not.
To add a featured image, open your profile page and click the Add to Highlight button. Click any box in the popup that appears and select your picture. You can choose one of the existing ones or install a new one.
4. Hide Things in Timeline
Facebook recently introduced the archiving feature for stories. Similar has been there for posts for a while. I’m talking about the hide posts option. If you don’t like a post on your profile and deleting it seems like a big step, you can hide it from your own timeline. You can even hide people on Facebook.
Note:
To hide a post, click the three dots icon in the upper right corner of the post. Then select Hide from timeline. A pop-up window will open. Click Hide to confirm.
To view hidden posts, go to the Activity log. Select Hidden from timeline from the options on the left.
5. Hide or Delete Multiple Posts
Sometimes we all like to clean up our Facebook timeline. There are things we published years ago that we now disagree with. It would be difficult to remove every such post if it had to be done manually.
Fortunately, Facebook allows you to 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 the posts.
Pro Tip
6. View Profile as Someone Else
Now that you’ve made all the changes to your Facebook profile, you’ll be wondering how it looks to a specific or public person. Guess what? No need to create a new account or ask others to send you screenshots, Facebook lets you do it yourself.
On your profile page, click the View as button. By default, you will be shown how the profile appears to the general public. If you want to check out a specific person, click the View as Specific Person button at the top. Then enter the person’s name.
7. Change View Mode
Recently, Facebook profile was limited to list view. All your status updates, images or videos that you shared on your timeline were only visible in list format. But that has changed and you can now switch between list and grid view.
List view shows full content while Grid view only displays images, videos etc. Displays media content such as You must click on the media to view or interact.
By default, all posts are in list mode. Click the Grid view button to switch to grid view. Interestingly, the Grid view makes viewing old posts very easy.
Wrap!
These were some of the great tips to give your Facebook profile a new look. While Facebook offers plenty of options for the profile page, I wish they could soften it up a bit. It feels messy now. We hope to see them make some exciting changes soon, or Instagram is always there.
