Beware! Your Display pictures may be public on Facebook

Facebook is trying hard to make most of the user’s private content public. First they launched Cover Photos where we don’t have any option of making pictures private i.e. only friends can see them. Now they have launched another feature which will automatically make current profile picture public.
From now onwards whenever you upload a profile picture, it shall be public by default. Even if your profile picture album is set to be private, the current profile picture will be public and it will be shown to everyone who visits your profile or opens up your profile picture album.
However, thankfully we still have an option of making profile pictures private. I shall tell you how to do it but before that check if your recently uploaded profile pictures are private or not.

How to make a profile picture private again?
In order to revert back a profile picture from public to private

• open your profile and go to photos.
• Now open your profile picture album and open a particular picture which is public.
• Then click on the Earth icon (in case the pic is public) given below your name and select your privacy level.

See the following screenshot for better understanding:

From the drop down list you can select from the following four options:

• Public: Picture will be public and visible to anyone on Facebook.
• Friends: Enlarged Picture will be visible to your friends only. However anyone can see the thumbnail.
• Only Me: Enlarged picture will be visible to you only.
• Custom: You can select few friends who can or cannot see your picture.

Click on your desired option and close the picture.
So the next time make sure you do these necessary changes before you upload a new profile picture.
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