How to make a post shareable on Facebook?

Privacy settings may prevent your friends from sharing your Facebook post. Here’s how to make a post shareable on Facebook.

Social media is about sharing what you like with your friends. On Facebook, people can share posts from other users on their timeline. But it all depends on the privacy settings set by the author for the message.

In this article, we explain how to make a post shareable on Facebook.

Privacy options for Facebook posts

There are different privacy modes that Facebook provides to its users. Whenever you post something, you might have noticed an option that says Edit Audience. This is the default option that lets you manage who can see your posts on Facebook and who can’t.

Currently, Facebook offers the following posting privacy modes on its platform.

Public: Public posts are visible to everyone on the Internet; it doesn’t matter if the person has an account on Facebook or not.
Friends: Only people on your friends list will be able to see these posts.
Friends except: This setting lets you choose which friends you want to exclude from the audience list.
Specific Friends: Only selected friends will be able to view and interact with the message.
Only me: No one but you can see the message.
Custom: This option is a combination of the Except Friends and the Specific Friends option. The author of the message can include and exclude friends from their friends list.

In order to make a post shareable for everyone, you will need to change the posting audience to Public. If you don’t want a specific person to interact with you on the platform, you can choose to block someone on Facebook instead.

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How to make a post shareable on Facebook

Changing your post’s privacy differs slightly depending on whether you’re using the Facebook app or the website.

Here are the instructions for each platform…

Change a post to public on the Facebook app

To change a post’s audience to Public using the Facebook smartphone app, follow these steps:

Log in to your account and navigate to the post you want to make shareable.
Tap on the three dots icon located in the upper right corner of the mail container.
Select the Edit privacy option from the list.
Now choose Public from the list of available options.

As soon as you set the settings to Public, anyone on Facebook can view and share the post on their timeline.

You can also manage audience settings for a Facebook post when creating the post, before posting.

To set the audience when creating your post, follow these steps:

Create a new message by tapping the What do you think? prompts on your profile or timeline.
Under your name, tap the first drop-down icon to change privacy settings.
select Public from the list and press Done.
Finish editing and tap Message.

How to Make a Post Public on Facebook Web

You can also manage privacy settings for posts if you’re using the web version of Facebook.

To make an existing post shareable on Facebook, log into your account and navigate to the post you want to make public.
Click the three-dot icon at the top right of the post you want to make shareable.
Next, select the Edit Audience option from the drop-down list.
A list of audience options will appear. Choose Public from the list of available options to make the post shareable on Facebook.
You can also make a post shareable as you create it.
To do this, click on the What do you think? field to create a new message. You can find this box on both your timeline/homepage and your profile page.
Then, in the pop-up window, you will see audience settings under your name. Click the drop-down menu icon.
Choose Public from the list of available options to make the post shareable on Facebook.
Complete your message and tap Message to post it.

Facebook post privacy management

Making a Facebook post public isn’t the best choice in all situations. Privacy modes are useful when there are personal posts that you don’t want others to see. You can quickly change the posting audience to control who can see your posts on Facebook.

When you want a message to be widely distributed, make it shareable. But when you want him to stay in your circle of friends, be sure to limit the audience.