How to Mass Change Privacy Settings for Old Facebook Posts

Your presence on the internet matters. Prospective and current employers, admissions officers, and public officials in general can easily get their hands on your profiles and assume that they can judge your character and competence based on the posts you make. While there is much to quibble with about how accurate an assessment that can actually be, the fact is that recruiters do it as a shortcut to deciding who would make a good fit. So, what should you do when you finally become conscious of the negative effects of sharing everything on Facebook publicly? It's far too much work to scroll through your entire timeline changing privacy settings for each and every post. Well, there's a way to mass-change the privacy settings for all your old posts set to Public or Friends of Friends. Choose whichever method you'd like to use from the methods below, to start making those posts as private as you can.