Shh, this is private. No, this is my Instagram, not your Instagram, okay. So I'm
gonna teach you how to keep it just between you and me, alright, super
private especially if you've got kids okay so stay tuned and I'm going to show
you how to do all those settings.
I love the Instagram conversation, it's a brand new platform for up-and-coming
people. You know, Facebook is is an interesting dynamic because
Facebook is actually aging with the generation that started Facebook about
15 years ago so the newer generations are coming out you know, they're hanging
out on Instagram, they're hanging out on snapchat, they're hanging out on Twitter
a little bit so with all this stuff going on, we want to know how do we do
privacy on Instagram. You know, if you're running a business that you're gonna
want to reach all of those audiences and you're definitely gonna want to know
where your audiences are based on your ideal client audience, right? So if
they're on Facebook, great, if they're on Instagram, great. But now how do we talk
about privacy on Instagram. Facebook has that whole whole set of things,
instagram's a little bit different. Now as a single mom of five, I take privacy
very very seriously. I don't want any metadata for my photos getting on there,
I don't want any people like finding out where I live and coming to my house or
or following me around all those creepy things and all the stuff you see on
going around online because of these privacy things, you want to alleviate all
of that and trust me, I get it, I get it. This is a huge priority for me so I'm gonna
walk you through how to secure your privacy right here in Instagram so while
you're watching this, in fact, if you're watching this on a computer at home, pull
out your phone, walk through it with me. If you need to do this, you know, open up
on your device a separate page and a separate tab, do whatever you need to do
this, you can follow along, alright. So I'm gonna open up my phone here, open up my
Instagram. Now I'm gonna do this with a personal account, I'll show you how to
walk through that. A personal account and a business account on Instagram are
separate things and they behave a little bit differently so I'm going to walk you
through right now how to do that on a personal account so if you look at my
screen, you can see I've got my personal page up right here. Now this is a public
page right now and this is because I want to show you how to walk through the
privacy. So you can see, you know, when you're looking at your own profile, you
can see something different than when you're looking to somebody else's. Right
here it says edit profile and got this little cog right next to it, this little
wheel right here, that's where you want to go to edit your privacy settings so
when you click on that, it's gonna bring up this whole set of options here. You've
got your password which I recommend, you know, don't use the same password for
Instagram as you do all your other social media sites, definitely don't
duplicate your password for banks, don't duplicate your password for for email.
If anyone gets your password for email, you are in a pile of
doodoo, you're in trouble so make sure that you have a nice clean unique
password and a lot of times, whatever operating system you're using on will
do a recommended password and remember for you, it'll be like all these crazy
numbers and things. Have a safe passwords, first things first, right. Okay, so make
sure your password is pretty and the way you want it. Account privacy is where
we're gonna go. You see privacy and security right here if you scroll down, click on
account privacy. Now it's a very simple system. What will happen if you push this
toggle right here is that your account will appear private to anyone that's not
already following you. When that happens and let's say you share your Instagram
handle on social media or you share it on an app or wherever you happen to be
and your Instagram handle is out there with people go to find you and you have
this checked to green then the only way they're going to be able to see your
content is if you allow them to. So when they try to follow you, they're gonna say
'request to follow', that's what they're gonna see on your account, they're not
gonna see any content, they're not gonna see your photos, they're not gonna see
her comments, they're not gonna see your tags or anything like that. When they
click request to follow, you will get a notification right on your device and
you can either accept or reject that request to follow. Very simple, very easy.
So that account is now private. Now it won't affect any of your existing users
it won't affect any of yours the existing subscribers or followers,
it'll just appear that way to new people so I'm gonna show you a couple more
privacy hacks here, right on the accounts. I'm gonna go back and if I scroll down
here, we can see you know get your privacy policy, report a problem, Help
Center, push notifications. I'm gonna click privacy and security help. This is
an even stronger way to protect your account according to however you want
your privacy settings to be. You can make age requirements, you can go to account
privacy here and when you open that up, you're gonna check. Now the read your
visibility, you're gonna see how all of this works
on Instagram, it's going to give you a lot of information there. Locations
sharing.. so if you're not sure you want people to know where your location is
when you're posting, you can change those settings as well. Two factors
authentication is what you're going to use when you sign on to Instagram and
this will protect your account from being hacked. I had an example of a
friend who had an Amazon account and he was a seller there and he turned off his
two-factor authorization and what happened was when we were in South
Africa, he actually got a notification via email of someone trying to pull a
few thousand dollars out of his bank account using his Amazon account. Now
because he didn't have two-factor authentication put in, then he had to
go in and resolve it. Amazon took a good care of him, they've got great customer
service but what two-factor authentication actually does is it
requires you to input a passcode every time you log in so if someone from
Russia goes to try and log into your Instagram account, your phone is going to
get a text with that two-factor authentication code and they obviously
won't have that so you're protected so if that's something you want to keep in
mind for your Instagram account, that's an option for you. You can customize your
experience by blocking specific accounts, removing specific followers. Let's say
you've got some trolls on there, you can remove those guys, you can manage photos
of you meaning manage photos that you're tagged in, filtering comments, can turn
comments off for specific posts that people get a little bit you know, you
know how people get on Instagram, they can get going back and forth gets nuts,
you can delete comments. Again, very helpful. Choosing who can see your story,
choosing who can reply to your story, you can report comments, you can report abuse,
those will be sent in to the Instagram, people down at HQ and they're gonna get
back with you and take care of you. You can report lots of different things
so lots of very detailed things and privacy and settings, you've got the
simple version that's going to just say, hey, make my account private and people
have to request and then you can go in and get these more detailed privacy
settings. Instagram wants to take care of their people, they like people to hang
out on Instagram so they're gonna take really good care of you as far as what
they allow people to see based on your privacy settings. A couple quick tips.. If
you are a parent like me and you want to keep your account secure, first things
first is, do not post pictures of your kids with
their names, okay. Do not post pictures of your kids with
any address in the background, be it your school, be it your home, anything. Don't
put anything pictures on there with addresses visible in the image.
Turn off your location services for your phone right away. Go into your settings
and turn off location services for your phone because every time you take a
picture, that picture's gonna have metadata in the sidecar file, meaning
that it's going to give the GPS coordinates of where that photo was
taken so just turn it off for your pictures altogether. Location services on
your Instagram account are separate so if you want to turn those off, do that
separately, okay. Keep those things in mind for your
family, keep in mind for your kids. Again, if you're a parent like me, very very
important and guys, it's not being paranoid, it's just being responsible,
okay. So go into your Instagram account, double check all your settings, double
check your privacy, make sure it's the way you want it and get posting. Hey,
thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed the video. If there's any questions you
have about Instagram, just drop me a line below, hit the subscribe button. I'll see
you tomorrow.