Facebook's privacy settings are complicated, so it's important to pay attention and learn the basics of controlling who can see the content you share.

There are dangers of oversharing on Facebook. Many people make their Facebook posts and photos private, so that only their friends or family can see what they post on the network. You can do this by adjusting your Facebook privacy settings.

You use Facebook’s privacy controls, the default settings that apply to broad categories of your information, in conjunction with the audience selector that appears on every single piece of content you post to the site. Most people use both.

The option you choose for your default privacy is important because it will apply to everything you post to Facebook unless you manually override it with the audience selector. For example, you could set the overall default sharing level to Friends, but use the audience selector to set some posts to Public (viewable to everyone) or a curated list of people, like your family.