Friday, November 15

Step by step: how to hide your friends list on Facebook so that nobody can see it


Facebook permite ocultar la lista de amigos siguiendo algunos pasos.
Facebook allows you to hide the list of friends by following some steps.

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Hiding the list of friends on Facebook can be an alternative to improve privacy and protect our personal information . Both in its application for mobile phones and in its web version, the configuration of this social network allows adjusting these types of restrictions, limiting the display of our friendship relationships with other users and our list of followers and followed.

Although the most common is that the friends list is public or visible to friends within Facebook, There is also a setting that completely hides it and that can be carried out by following these steps:

one. Enter the Facebook profile to click on the configuration button that is arranged in the upper right corner . It is accompanied by the one used to check notifications and the one that leads to Facebook Messenger conversations.

Captura de un perfil de Facebook
Capture of a personal Facebook account where the menu to modify the account settings is indicated.

two. By clicking on the button, a menu will be displayed with several options , among which is “Configuration and privacy ”, arranged for this type of setting. Click on this option.

Captura de un perfil de Facebook
Capture of a personal Facebook account where the menu to modify the account settings is indicated.

3 . Once this option is clicked, the menu changes and becomes more specific, showing new options . The next step is to press the “Configuration” option that will appear among the first.

Captura de un perfil de Facebook
Capture of a personal Facebook account where the menu to modify the account settings is indicated.

4. In this way, the privacy settings are accessed and the screen changes completely to show the general information of the account, accompanied by a whole bar of options arranged on the left. Among those options, you must locate “Privacy” and click on it.

Captura de un perfil de Facebook
Capture of a personal Facebook account showing details of account settings.

5. By clicking on “Privacy”, you access the “Settings and privacy tools” and, therefore, to the “Privacy shortcuts”, where you will find the option “Manage your profile”. To continue, you must access the latter.

Captura de un perfil de Facebook
Capture of a Facebook profile showing privacy settings.

6. “Manage your profile” redirects to what appears to be a Facebook profile view , but with all the options to modify the privacy of the information that is displayed on a daily basis. At this point, all the usual tabs appear with a three-dot button in the upper right corner. The “Friends” tab must be located and click on said button to display the “Edit privacy” option.

Captura de un perfil de Facebook
Capture of a Facebook profile showing privacy settings.

7. When accessing “Edit privacy”, a central menu appears with the options associated with friends and followers. The first one corresponds to the list of friends and has a button on the right associated with the display setting to be modified.

Captura de un perfil de Facebook
Capture of a Facebook profile showing privacy settings.

8 . By clicking on the setting button on the right, you can choose between several privacy options for the list of friends on Facebook. When the desire is to hide it completely, the option “Only me” should be checked. In this way, the viewing of both the general public and all friends within the social network is restricted.

Captura de un perfil de Facebook
Capture of a Facebook profile showing privacy settings.

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