A quick way to test your Facebook privacy is to see what your profile looks like as a specific person or as a member of the general public. Facebook lets you do this and you can find it in your profile settings.
Test Facebook Privacy
![Test your Facebook privacy. First go to your Facebook profile and click the three dots.](https://www.macobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/facebook-privacy-view-profile-1.png)
- Go to your Facebook profile. You can do this by clicking on your name or picture at the top of the left side bar, or at the top bar.
- Click the three dots on the bottom right of your cover photo.
- Click “View As…”
This will refresh the page, and you’ll see a black bar at the top that tells you that you’re looking at your profile from the point of view of the general public. Or, you can choose a specific person, in case you have custom Facebook privacy settings.
![Test your Facebook privacy by selecting the point of view you want.](https://www.macobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/facebook-privacy-view-profile-2.png)
This is useful because you can choose to have certain information available to Friends, Friends of Friends, Everyone, or No One. You can use this as a test to make sure you changed something correctly.
The “View As” option was been removed after this article was written due to a huge security flaw linked to that function. Please edit your article to update the information — thanks and keep up the good work!