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Hide Friends Facebook | for All Devices

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It can be challenging to keep your personal information exclusive online, yet simply a couple of clicks can maintain your Facebook details from prying eyes. If you want to keep complete strangers (or perhaps friends) from trawling through your friends list, it's straightforward-- as long as you know where to look. Below's Hide Friends Facebook.

Hide Friends Facebook

Hide Friends Facebook


Configure your friends list from your PC

Hide Friends Facebook

The guidelines (as well as your options) are a little various whether you're watching Facebook on a web browser. While you can access the basic choices from either, the site will certainly let you entirely tailor that can see your friends list. Here's how to do it:

  • Open up Facebook from your internet internet browser.

  • Click the triangle in the upper right to open up the menu, after that choose Settings.

  • Click Privacy in the left-hand column.

  • In the "How People Can Find and Contact You" area, select "Who can see your friends list" Click it.

  • In the drop-down menu, pick who you want to see your friends list. Select one alternative from this list:


    • Public: Any individual can see your friends list.

    • Friends: Just your friends can see your friends list.

    • Only Me: Just you can see your friends list.

    • Custom: You can pick exactly that can and can't see your friends list. When you click Personalized, you can get in certain checklists or names under "Share with" to allow them see your friends list or "Don't share with" to prevent them from seeing your friends list.


  • When you're done, click Save changes to save your custom-made setups.

  • Click Close on the right to save your settings.


Configure your friends list from your mobile phone or tablet

Hide Friends Facebook

Setup on mobile is similar, but offers different customization choices-- as opposed to creating an entirely custom-made list of individuals that can see your friends list, mobile deals a couple of added pre-configured options. Below's how to transform the visibility of your friends list from your iPhone or Android device:.

  1. Open up the Facebook application.

  2. Tap the menu icon (it looks like 3 straight lines) which is in the upper right for Android or in the reduced right for iPhone.

  3. Tap Settings & Privacy.

  4. Faucet Settings.

  5. Tap Privacy Settings.

  6. Faucet "Who can see your friends list?" You'll see numerous options, and also can click More > See All for a complete list of alternatives. Select one alternative from this list:


    • Public: Any person can see your friends list.

    • Friends: Just your friends can see your friends list.

    • Only you: Only you can see your friends list.

    • Friends except: All friends other than the friends you picked.

    • Specific friends: Only friends you have actually picked.
    • Specific lists: Following you'll see groups of people detailed, like close friends or friends in your location. Exactly what shows up right here will differ, yet will certainly consist of checklists of individuals you're associated with. If you would love to choose more than one list, you can do so using the custom-made option on the web site.


  7. If you have actually picked Friends Except or Specific Friends, you need to click Done once you have actually picked the people you intend to have access to your friends list.

  8. Click the back button in the top left to save your choices and go back to settings.


While this will certainly conceal your friends list, there are a couple of ways individuals can still uncover a few of your friends. When people see your profile, they might see friends you have in common. And also, if your friends have public friends listings, you'll be visible there. This will certainly assist you secure down your privacy, yet if your friends have not done the very same, they may have the ability to assemble some hints with a basic search.