10 Essential Facebook Tips and Tricks for All Users

Make your account more secure, manipulate your personal settings and more, with these ten Facebook tips and tricks that every user should know.

Facebook Privacy Settings for Individual Status Updates

There may be instances when you don't want to share a status update with all of your Facebook friends. If that's the case, restricting access to a handful of friends—or allowing only a few friends to view that update—is easy.


After you type your status update, click the drop-down menu next to the lock. Choose "Customize," then add people to the "Hide this from" list to block individuals. Or, click the drop-down menu under "Make this visible to" and grant specific friends access to the update.


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