We all post photos on Facebook but we seldom realize that we may be sharing them with a lot more persons than we would like. This is because of the default post privacy setting which is set to either "Public" or "Friends of Friends".
When the privacy is set to "Public" everyone can see your content which may not be desirable.
By default, the privacy is set to "Friends of Friends" which means that your post will be visible not only to your direct friends but also to their other friends. This may be risky in some cases as you may not know many of these "third-party" friends yet they can view, like and even comment on your content.
For this reason you should always set your privacy settings to "Friends" and nothing more broader.
But there is still one small issue hidden in the "Friends" setting. Even now, the friends of all the people tagged in the photo can view the post in their news feed even if they are not directly your friends. This is because they may be direct friends with the people that you tagged in your photo. This may not be an issue for many, but in some special cases even this may be a point of concern.
Consider the case when you want your office pics to be visible only to your direct friends and not to any other third party friends even if they are "friends" with your colleagues that you tagged in your photo.
For this, I use the "Custom" privacy setting where it allows you to uncheck the "Friends of people tagged in" option.
After doing these settings for future posts, you may want to change the privacy of all the past posts to "Friends"
Also, you can review how your timeline looks like to different audience categories like "Public" or any specific friend. For more details, please refer the below screenshots.
Who can see my stuff?
Custom Privacy:
Limit old posts:
Review timeline as another user:
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