Although it has recently been surpassed in number of users by Instagram, the truth is that Facebook It continues to be one of the most popular social networks in the world, the meeting point for millions of people every day. People who also care about their privacy. That's what we're going to talk about in this article. Specifically, how to do hide friends list on Facebook.
This is just one of many privacy options that Facebook offers us. We can use it if we don't want anyone to know who is on our friends list. You already know that many users have it open, which is a way of knowing if, as users, we have friends in common with them.
In this post we are going to see how to perform this action from the Facebook page on a computer or through the app with a mobile phone. Finally, we will also go over some other privacy options that may be interesting to users.
Hide friends on Facebook from the web
To carry out this action from the web page on a computer, these are the steps we must follow:
- First, we click on our profile photo and, in the list of options that appears, we select the option "Settings and privacy".
- Then we will "Settings" (cogwheel icon).
- On the new screen, we go to the left column and select "Privacy" (padlock icon).
- Next, in the “How can others find and contact you” section, we choose the question "Who can see my friends list?"
- Finally, we click on edit and we proceed to activate the option we want:
- Public.
- Friends.
- Friends except ...
- concrete friends.
- Just me.
- Custom.
Hide friends on Facebook from the app
This method may be more practical than the previous one, given that the vast majority of Facebook users use this social network through the mobile application. The steps to follow are almost the same. This is how you do it:
- With the Facebook app open, click on the icon three horizontal lines, located at the top right of the screen.
- In the menu that opens, we select the section "Settings and Privacy".
- Then we go to the option "Settings".
- The next step is to select the “How others can find and contact you” section, within which we will see the option "Who can see your friends list?", where we can choose the privacy options that we already know:
- Public.
- Friends.
- Friends except ...
- concrete friends.
- Just me.
- Custom.
Other privacy options
Facebook users know well that, every time new content is published, there is the possibility of choosing who can see it and who cannot. The simplest and most convenient thing is to establish a default configuration that affects all our publications. This is one of many other privacy options on this platform, beyond the option to hide friends on Facebook.
How is it done? You simply have to click on the profile icon, select the option “Settings and Privacy” and establish which of our publications we want to be public and which are restricted to our Facebook friends. But there are more options:
Who can find us on Facebook?
From the same "Settings and Privacy" tab it is possible to establish a series of parameters to establish who can find us on Facebook. Simply access the Meta Privacy Center and select the option of «Facebook settings». There we find these options, which we can edit according to our preferences:
- Who can send you friend requests?
- Who can see your friends list?
- Who can look you up with the email address you provided?
- Who can look you up with the phone number you provided?
- Do you want search engines outside of Facebook to link to your profile?
Who can see and write in our profile?
These settings can be established from the «Profile and labeling. There we will decide which users can see our Facebook profile. Also who can see what other people publish on our profile.
An interesting option is the one that allows us avoid being tagged in a photo without our consent. For this, two boxes that we can activate or deactivate according to our convenience:
- Review the posts we were tagged in before they appear on our profile.
- Review the tags that people add to our posts before they appear on Facebook.
Hide our personal data on Facebook
By default, the main Facebook profile configuration page shows a series of data about us that we may want to hide (account name, first and last name, email, phone number...). To manage this private information, simply use the button "Edit" and only leave the data we want visible to the public, keeping the others away from prying eyes.