Enter your "hometown" on Facebook
The social network Facebook unites people from all over the world. You can enter your hometown to make it easier to find.
In the social network Facebook you can discover millions of users. Old friendsYou can find former colleagues or distant relatives in no time at all and add them to your contacts. So that you can also be found, it is helpful to provide private data such as your place of residence or home town.
Specify the hometown
- Would you like to use your Facebookprofile To add private information such as your home city, you must be signed in. You will find two empty fields on the network's website for this purpose. First give your e-mail-Address with which you are registered on Facebook and then the password you have chosen.
- If you are logged into Facebook, an overview of all your information appears contacts and fansites. At the top right you will see a small picture of your profile picture that you have to click with the mouse.
- You land on the timeline from your profile. Under the large cover picture you will find the button 'Edit information', which you now have to press.
- On the left under 'Home' you can click the 'Edit' button to add your home town.
- Enter your home town or select it from the list displayed and click on the 'Save' button below. Your home city is now displayed in the profile.
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You should keep this in mind on Facebook
- Facebook is a public network that can be used by anyone in the world. You may not want to tell everyone where you were born, then you should adjust the settings in your profile.
- Click again on 'Edit information' to get to the places of residence and press the 'Edit' button.
- There is a small arrow behind the field in which you insert the hometown, which you can open with the mouse.
- If you select the globe there, the entry will appear public and can be seen by every Facebook user.
- With the friends symbol you can determine that only your friends are informed about your home location.
- You can set the visibility individually via 'User-defined'. In this way you avoid, for example, contacts who are not so close to you knowing about your private information.
- Once you have made the desired setting, save the information.
Only enter personal information such as your hometown as public on Facebook if you have no problems protecting your privacy to have. Otherwise, you should always take the above precautions.
