You didn’t notice that the friend set visibility to “friends only”.You share that post to a Facebook group you belong to.A friend makes a post and it appears on your timeline.The only options are to live with that or ask the original poster to make the post public, at which point my share of that post will take on the visibility I specify. That would share the post outside of the limits specified by the original poster. 2 I wanted to share this with my friends. That’s probably not what I intended, since their friends already saw it. The only people who will see my share of this post are the friends we have in common. I can share this post if I like, but here’s the catch: even if I share the post, my share will still be restricted to only the friends of the original poster. They set it to be seen only by their friends you can tell that by the icon below. That’s actually an important part of privacy on Facebook if you make a post and share it only to your friends, you don’t want anyone else outside of the circle to have access to it. Sharing someone else’s post does not change who can see it. You cannot change the visibility of the posts of others - and that’s where things get interesting. You can change the visibility of a post you’ve made pretty much any time. Changing the visibility of a Facebook post. If it’s your post, you can change the visibility by clicking that icon. The most common other icons are the silhouette of two people (indicating the post is shared with a restricted audience), or a gear icon (indicating a more complex sharing rule). In the example above, the post is public, indicated by the globe icon. Globe icon indicating a public post on Facebook. You can check the visibility of any post. If you want it to be public, you need to change it back. If you post something only to your friends, your next post will default to that same setting. Important: the default setting for this - Public, Friends, or something else - is whatever you chose for your last post. Those who are not your friends won’t get an error message they simply won’t see the post. If this is selected, only your Facebook friends will see this post, and no one else. There’s a wide variety of choices, but the most common is the second: Friends. Visibility options when sharing a Facebook post. If I click on that, it expands to a drop-down list of other options. The setting above has defaulted to “Public”, meaning the post is visible to absolutely anyone and everyone. In the example above, when you’re about to make a new post from the desktop version of Facebook, you can set who is allowed to see the post (as well as whether that post should be on your timeline or as part of your “story”).
Visibility options when making a Facebook post. To understand why posts may not be visible to everyone, we need to look at the options available when you create a new Facebook post - specifically what I’ll refer to as visibility settings. You can change the visibility of posts you’ve already made to restrict access or allow others to see them. If you set a post to be visible to only a restricted audience, then the next post you make will default to that same restriction unless you change it. The catch is that each new post inherits the previous visibility setting.
If it’s set to something less than public, then people who are not included will see your post as “unavailable”. Visibility includes public, friends, friends-of-friends, and more. Each post you make has its own visibility setting.
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