How To Make My Friends Private On Facebook
Your Facebook account defaults to making the "Pals" section of your profile visible to everyone. To change the personal 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 Personal privacy" from the dropdown menu. Then you can choose an audience. This is what the menu will look like by default:
Facebook offers a range of options for the audience you share your good friends list with, ranging from making it public to keeping it visible to your eyes alone. You can opt to make your buddies list "Public" so that everybody can see it; set it noticeable to "Pals" so that anybody 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 select the same choices for any of the people or lists that you follow on Facebook.).
Utilizing lists to organize who can see your Pals list.
Alternately, you can opt to share your Buddies list with the members of any of the clever lists that arrange your Buddies, or you can pick to set it to a "Custom" privacy setting, which adds the alternative of sharing your Friends list with particular people or lists of Pals. With custom-made privacy settings, you can also pick users whom you specifically do not want to share your Friends list with-- which is a particularly beneficial setting if you wish to conceal it from a nosy associate or ex.
You can both create your own lists of Buddies and make the most of clever lists that Facebook produces for you. Smart notes develop themselves and automatically remain current based on the profile details that you and your Buddies share, 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 good friends Eric and Jane also list Stanford, then you may see a wise list called "Stanford University" with Eric and Jane on it.
Facebook enables you to develop lists for "Close Friends" and "Acquaintances," as well as a "Limited" list of friends who will only be able to see the info that you make Public or the posts that you tag them in. You can include Buddies to these lists and develop your very own custom-made lists, which can help you to handle the personal privacy of your information, such as who can see your Pals list.
Making your buddies list personal from Facebook's app.
To make your friends list private from Facebook's iOS app, go to your profile, tap "Friends" below your profile photo, and tap the audience beside "Buddies" 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 image, and tap the audience next to "Buddies" to change who can see your list of buddies.
Even if you set your Facebook Pals list to "Just Me," it will not ever be completely personal. Facebook notes that because other individuals have the same options offered to them when they choose whether they wish to share their Pals list or make it personal, people might be able to see mutual friends when they go to your profile. Your Friends control who sees their relationships on their profiles, so if people can see your friendship on another profile, they'll also be able to see it in the News Feed, search, and other put on Facebook.