How To Make Your Friends Private On Facebook
Your Facebook account defaults to making the "Buddies" section of your profile noticeable to everyone. To adjust the personal privacy of your Pals list, go to your profile, and click "Buddies" listed below your cover photo. Then, click the pencil icon at the top of the page and choose "Edit Personal privacy" from the dropdown menu. Then you can pick an audience. This is what the menu will appear like by default:
Facebook provides a range of alternatives for the audience you share your good friends list with, varying from making it public to keeping it noticeable to your eyes alone. You can decide to make your friends list "Public" so that everyone can see it; set it visible to "Pals" so that anybody who's friends with you can see it; or set it to "Just Me" so that you're the only one who can see it. (You can pick the same choices for any of the people or lists that you follow on Facebook.).
Utilizing lists to arrange who can see your Buddies list.
At the same time, you can select to share your Friends list with the members of any of the wise lists that organize your Buddies, or you can pick to set it to a "Customized" personal privacy setting, which includes the choice of sharing your Friends list with specific people or lists of Pals. With custom-made personal privacy settings, you can also pick users whom you specifically do not wish to share your Friends list with-- which is a particularly useful setting if you desire to conceal it from a nosy associate or ex.
You can both create your own lists of Friends and take advantage of smart lists that Facebook creates for you. Smart notes develop themselves and automatically remain up-to-date based on the profile details that you and your Buddies have in common, such as work, school, household, or city. As Facebook discusses, if you note Stanford as a school that you've participated in, and your pals Eric and Jane likewise list Stanford, then you might see a wise list called "Stanford University" with Eric and Jane on it.
Facebook enables you to create lists for "Close Friends" and "Acquaintances," as well as a "Restricted" list of friends who will just be able to see the info that you reveal or the posts that you tag them in. You can include Friends to these lists and develop your own custom-made lists, which can help you to manage the privacy of your info, such as who can see your Pals list.
Making your good friends list personal from Facebook's app.
To make your pals list private from Facebook's iOS app, go to your profile, tap "Pals" listed below your profile image, and tap the audience beside "Buddies" to adjust who can see the Pals section of your profile.
To change who can see your Buddies list from Facebook's Android app, go to your profile, tap "Friends" below your profile picture, and tap the audience next to "Pals" to change who can see your list of friends.
Even if you set your Facebook Buddies list to "Just Me," it will not ever be completely personal. Facebook keeps in mind that considering that other people have the exact same options readily available to them when they choose whether they wish to share their Pals list or make it personal, individuals may be able to see mutual pals when they go to your profile. Your Pals control who sees their friendships 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 put on Facebook.