Facebook Friends List Private
Your Facebook account defaults to making the "Buddies" area of your profile visible to everybody. To adjust the privacy of your Friends list, go to your profile, and click "Buddies" below your cover photo. Then, click the pencil icon at the top of the page and choose "Edit Privacy" from the dropdown menu. Then you can select an audience. This is exactly what the menu will look like by default:
Facebook offers a variety of choices for the audience you share your good friends list with, ranging from making it public to keeping it noticeable to your eyes alone. You can decide to make your friends list "Public" so that everybody can see it; set it visible to "Buddies" 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 pick the same choices for any of individuals or lists that you follow on Facebook.).
Utilizing lists to organize who can see your Buddies list.
At the same time, you can decide to share your Buddies list with the members of any of the clever lists that organize your Buddies, or you can choose to set it to a "Custom" privacy setting, which adds the choice of sharing your Friends list with particular people or lists of Pals. With custom-made personal privacy settings, you can likewise pick users whom you particularly do not desire to share your Pals list with-- which is an especially helpful setting if you wish to hide it from a nosy acquaintance or ex.
You can both produce your own lists of Friends and take advantage of clever lists that Facebook creates for you. Smart lists develop themselves and immediately remain updated based upon the profile details that you and your Buddies have in typical, such as work, school, family, or city. As Facebook describes, if you note Stanford as a school that you've participated in, and your buddies Eric and Jane also list Stanford, then you might see a smart list called "Stanford University" with Eric and Jane on it.
Facebook allows you to produce lists for "Close Friends" and "Acquaintances," as well as a "Limited" list of good friends who will just have the ability to see the info that you make Public or the posts that you tag them in. You can add Buddies to these lists and develop your very own customized lists, which can assist you to manage the privacy of your info, such as who can see your Friends list.
Making your friends list private from Facebook's app.
To make your friends list personal from Facebook's iOS app, go to your profile, tap "Friends" listed below your profile photo, and tap the audience next to "Pals" to change who can see the Buddies section of your profile.
To change who can see your Friends list from Facebook's Android app, go to your profile, tap "Buddies" listed below your profile photo, and tap the audience next to "Pals" to change who can see your list of buddies.
Even if you set your Facebook Pals list to "Just Me," it won't ever be completely personal. Facebook keeps in mind that since other individuals have the exact same choices readily available to them when they choose whether they wish to share their Friends list or make it personal, individuals may be able to see shared pals when they go to your profile. Your Friends control who sees their relationships on their profiles, so if individuals can see your friendship on another profile, they'll likewise be able to see it in the News Feed, search, and other put on Facebook.