How to Hide & Make Your Friends List Private on Facebook

Today we’re going to look at how to hide the friends list, which is one of the aspects that many users like to keep secret on Facebook.

Privacy is one of the top concerns for people on social networks. Today we’re going to look at how to hide the friends list, which is one of the aspects that many users like to keep secret on Facebook.

Facebook offers a variety of privacy options to control just about everything. For example, the profile visibility, who can see your updates, your photos, friends, and more.

Keeping your friends list public allows any person to add many of your friends. Then if you have some mutual friends, you will be more willing to accept their friend requests. For this reason and a few others, we’ll learn how to put your friends private on Facebook from your phone and computer.

How to hide your friends on Facebook from mobile

In this example, we are using an iPhone, but the process is very similar to Android.

1. Open the Facebook app on your phone, then go to the three-bars Menu and navigate to Settings & privacy > Settings option.

2. Now scroll down to the Audience and visibility section and select the How people find and contact you option.

3. Then push on Who can see your friends list?

4. To make your Facebook friend list private, select the Only me option. After that, you can go back and exit FB settings and the changes will be applied.

How to hide friends list on Facebook

Alternatively, you can select Friends if you want only you and your friends to see the list. There’s also “Except Friends” to hide for specific people, or “Specific Friends” to select some particular friends who can see your list.

Make your Facebook friends list private from your browser

If you want to keep your Facebook friends list private, you can easily hide them by:

1Open Facebook in your browser, go to your profile and select the Friends tab.

How to hide friends list on Facebook

2. Now click the 3 dots button next to the Find Friends link and select the Edit Privacy option.

How to hide friends list on Facebook

3. In the pop-up window, next to Who can see your friends list option, click the button on the right and select the Only me option.

This is how you can hide your friends on Facebook so no one can see your list. Among other things, you can select or filter people who should not see them. You can also use your followers list to do this.

Final words

There are a number of reasons to keep your friends list private, but there is no doubt that privacy is something everyone has in common. If our friends list is publicly visible, anyone can come in and find out who your friends are.

They might even send you friend requests to make you think they have mutual friends. As you see, this is a very important configuration that can be easily changed.

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