Change Your Age On Facebook
Though it's pleasurable to speak with pals and loved ones on your birthday, you might not want to share your year of birth with the entire world. Facebook has actually resolved personal privacy problems by giving you the option to reveal or hide individual information such as your age. You hide your age by editing and enhancing your Facebook Account and also transforming privacy settings beside your birthday. In addition to obstructing your birthday celebration from other Facebook customers, you have to change settings related to application use, as games and other applications accessibility your personal info.
1. Log into your Facebook account.
2. Click on your account name on the top right side of the side of the display. This shows your Facebook timeline page.
3. Click the "Update Information" button at the near the bottom right of your Cover photo, which is the huge, broad picture at the top of your timeline.
4. Click the "Edit" switch in the facility column in the Basic Details area. You locate it about midway down the web page. Facebook shows a small home window of options.
5. Click the pull-down listing promptly underneath your birthday celebration details. The default setup is "Program my full birthday celebration on my timeline." Select the option, "Do not show my birthday celebration on my timeline." Scroll down to the bottom of Fundamental Details setups and also click the "Conserve" switch to conserve the change.
6. Click the downward-pointing triangular in the leading right of the Facebook window. This takes down a brief menu. Click "Personal Privacy Settings." Facebook shows your Personal privacy Setups web page.
7. Scroll down the web page till you see "Apps and also Internet sites" near the center of the screen. Click "Edit Settings."
8. Locate the section, "How individuals bring your details to applications they make use of" near the center left side of the Edit Settings web page. Click the "Edit Setup" button. This opens up a little home window containing a number of check boxes.
9. Click the check box next to "Birthday" to unselect it. This avoids Facebook applications from accessing your birthday celebration. Click the "Save Adjustments" button.
Tip
The above instructions apply if you have actually made it possible for Facebook's timeline attribute. Timeline was introduced in September 2011 and will eventually replace the account web page for all Facebook individuals.