Make Friends Private On Facebook
Your Facebook account defaults to making the "Friends" section of your profile visible to everybody. To adjust the privacy of your Friends 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 what the menu will appear like by default:
Facebook uses a range of alternatives for the audience you share your pals list with, ranging from making it public to keeping it visible to your eyes alone. You can decide to make your friends list "Public" so that everybody can see it; set it visible to "Friends" so that anyone who's good 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 pick the exact same choices for any of the people or lists that you follow on Facebook.).
Using lists to organize who can see your Pals list.
Alternately, you can decide to share your Pals list with the members of any of the smart lists that arrange your Good friends, or you can pick to set it to a "Custom" personal privacy setting, which includes the option of sharing your Friends list with particular people or lists of Buddies. With customized privacy settings, you can likewise pick users whom you specifically don't desire to share your Buddies list with-- which is a particularly beneficial setting if you wish to conceal it from a meddlesome associate or ex.
You can both develop your very own lists of Buddies and take benefit of smart lists that Facebook develops for you. Smart notes produce themselves and automatically stay up-to-date based on the profile details that you and your Pals have in common, such as work, school, family, or city. As Facebook discusses, if you list Stanford as a school that you have actually participated in, and your friends Eric and Jane likewise list Stanford, then you may see a wise list called "Stanford University" with Eric and Jane on it.
Facebook allows you to produce lists for "Close Pals" and "Acquaintances," along with a "Limited" list of friends who will only have the ability to see the details that you reveal or the posts that you tag them in. You can add Pals to these lists and develop your own customized lists, which can assist you to handle the privacy of your details, such as who can see your Pals list.
Making your good friends list private from Facebook's app.
To make your good friends list personal from Facebook's iOS app, go to your profile, tap "Buddies" listed below your profile photo, and tap the audience next to "Friends" to adjust who can see the Friends area of your profile.
To adjust who can see your Buddies list from Facebook's Android app, go to your profile, tap "Pals" listed below your profile picture, and tap the audience next to "Friends" to change who can see your list of pals.
Even if you set your Facebook Buddies list to "Just Me," it will not ever be completely personal. Facebook notes that since other people have the very same choices offered to them when they decide whether they want to share their Good friends list or make it personal, individuals may have the ability to see mutual pals when they go to your profile. Your Buddies control who sees their relationships on their profiles, so if people can see your friendship on another profile, they'll also have the ability to see it in the News Feed, search, and other put on Facebook.