How do you make the questions and answers private on your yahoo answers profile?

How do I make my questions and answers private?

• I don't want people to see my questions or answers on yahoo answers. How do I make it so that there isn't an update made on my profile about the question or answer?

• Answer:

  To make your answers and questions private on here, click on your name next to your picture over to the right of the screen. click on "edit my preferences" scroll down to where it says "privacy" and you should see a check box that says "on my public profile, hide my Q & A from people who are not my contacts" check that box click "preview" at the bottom of the screen scroll down and click "ok" now if you have yahoo messenger, your Q&A can show up in your status and your friends will be able to see it. This happened to me despite the fact that my Q & A are private on here. This was really annoying but I found out how to fix this. go to the yahoo homepage (yahoo.com) look over to the left where it says "yahoo sites" and it has a list of sites. Find "updates" and click on it click on "settings" in the upper right hand corner click on "manage updates" the box that says "share my updates" should be checked. Uncheck it! scroll down to the bottom and hit "save".