How Do You Make Your Friends Private On Facebook
Your Facebook account defaults to making the "Friends" area of your profile visible to everyone. To adjust the personal privacy of your Friends list, go to your profile, and click "Buddies" listed below your cover picture. Then, click the pencil icon at the top of the page and select "Edit Privacy" from the dropdown menu. Then you can select an audience. This is exactly what the menu will appear like by default:
Facebook uses a variety of choices for the audience you share your buddies list with, ranging from making it public to keeping it visible to your eyes alone. You can decide to make your pals list "Public" so that everyone can see it; set it visible to "Buddies" so that anybody who's friends with you can see it; or set it to "Only Me" so that you're the only one who can see it. (You can choose the exact same options for any of the individuals or lists that you follow on Facebook.).
Using lists to organize who can see your Pals list.
Alternately, you can select to share your Pals list with the members of any of the clever lists that arrange your Friends, or you can opt to set it to a "Custom-made" personal privacy setting, which adds the alternative of sharing your Friends list with particular people or lists of Friends. With custom-made personal privacy settings, you can also choose users whom you specifically don't want to share your Friends list with-- which is a particularly beneficial setting if you wish to hide it from a nosy acquaintance or ex.
You can both produce your own lists of Friends and make the most of wise lists that Facebook develops for you. Smart notes develop themselves and instantly stay up-to-date based upon the profile information that you and your Pals have in typical, such as work, school, family, or city. As Facebook describes, if you note Stanford as a school that you have actually gone to, and your pals Eric and Jane likewise list Stanford, then you may see a smart list called "Stanford University" with Eric and Jane on it.
Facebook allows you to create lists for "Close Pals" and "Acquaintances," in addition to a "Limited" list of friends who will only be able to see the information that you reveal or the posts that you tag them in. You can include Pals to these lists and create your very own custom lists, which can help you to handle the personal privacy of your details, such as who can see your Friends list.
Making your buddies list personal from Facebook's app.
To make your pals list private from Facebook's iOS app, go to your profile, tap "Pals" below your profile photo, and tap the audience next to "Pals" to change who can see the Friends section of your profile.
To change who can see your Pals list from Facebook's Android app, go to your profile, tap "Buddies" listed below your profile photo, and tap the audience next to "Friends" to alter who can see your list of good friends.
Even if you set your Facebook Pals list to "Just Me," it will not ever be absolutely personal. Facebook notes that because other individuals have the same choices available to them when they decide whether they wish to share their Pals list or make it personal, people might be able to see shared buddies when they go to your profile. Your Buddies control who sees their relationships on their profiles, so if individuals can see your relationship on another profile, they'll also be able to see it in the News Feed, search, and other places on Facebook.