How To Make Your Facebook Friends List Private
Your Facebook account defaults to making the "Pals" area of your profile visible to everyone. To adjust the personal privacy of your Pals list, go to your profile, and click "Pals" listed below your cover image. Then, click the pencil icon at the top of the page and select "Edit Privacy" from the dropdown menu. Then you can choose an audience. This is exactly what the menu will look like by default:
Facebook offers a variety of alternatives for the audience you share your pals list with, varying from making it public to keeping it noticeable to your eyes alone. You can opt to make your good friends list "Public" so that everyone can see it; set it visible to "Friends" so that anybody who's buddies with you can see it; or set it to "Just Me" so that you're the only one who can see it. (You can choose the exact same choices for any of the people or lists that you follow on Facebook.).
Utilizing lists to arrange who can see your Friends list.
At the same time, you can decide to share your Buddies list with the members of any of the smart lists that organize your Pals, or you can opt to set it to a "Custom-made" privacy setting, which includes the choice of sharing your Buddies list with particular individuals or lists of Pals. With customized personal privacy settings, you can likewise select users whom you specifically do not want to share your Pals list with-- which is an especially helpful setting if you wish to hide it from a nosy associate or ex.
You can both produce your very own lists of Pals and take advantage of wise lists that Facebook develops for you. Smart lists produce themselves and immediately remain updated based on the profile info that you and your Friends have in common, such as work, school, household, or city. As Facebook explains, if you note Stanford as a school that you've participated in, and your good friends Eric and Jane likewise list Stanford, then you may see a smart list called "Stanford University" with Eric and Jane on it.
Facebook enables you to create lists for "Close Pals" and "Acquaintances," as well as a "Limited" list of buddies who will just be able to see the information that you make Public or the posts that you tag them in. You can include Friends to these lists and create your very own custom lists, which can help you to manage the privacy of your information, such as who can see your Pals list.
Making your pals list personal from Facebook's app.
To make your friends list personal from Facebook's iOS app, go to your profile, tap "Friends" below your profile picture, and tap the audience next to "Friends" to adjust who can see the Buddies section of your profile.
To adjust who can see your Buddies list from Facebook's Android app, go to your profile, tap "Friends" below your profile image, and tap the audience next to "Pals" to change who can see your list of buddies.
Even if you set your Facebook Buddies list to "Just Me," it won't ever be completely private. Facebook notes that considering that other individuals have the same choices available to them when they choose whether they wish to share their Pals list or make it personal, people might be able to see shared friends when they go to your profile. Your Buddies control who sees their friendships on their profiles, so if individuals can see your relationship on another profile, they'll likewise be able to see it in the News Feed, search, and other put on Facebook.