

If the “Who can see your posts” option is set to public, that means anyone can see what’s on your page, whether they have a Facebook account or not. At the top is a Your Activity window with a drop-down menu. Head over to Settings, then select the Privacy tab. There are plenty of reasons why you wouldn’t want to nuke your Facebook account, but you can still lock it down. If that’s not enough, you can deactivate your account, which can be undone, or full-on delete it-and even then, you have a chance to change your mind.

First you can limit what third-party apps and the Facebook community can see about your account. So we totally understand if you’re having second thoughts about your account. In a series of reports, we learned that an employee at Facebook erroneously handed a trove of data to a company called Cambridge Analytics, which in turn used that information to target voters and spread influence ahead of the 2016 election. There was a time when deleting your Facebook account was a pie-in-the-sky fantasy, but this week’s news might have you thinking twice.
