How to hide your friends list on Facebook on your phone or computer

Hiding friends on Facebook is one of the ways for us to protect our Facebook information as well as our friends' Facebook account information, besides hiding people who are following us on Facebook .

When you hide your Facebook friends list, no one can see your friend list, or users can set who can see their Facebook friends list. So you have complete control over setting up Facebook friends visibility. Following the steps below will help you increase your precious privacy online.

The article below will guide you to hide friends on Facebook.

Instructions to hide friends on Facebook phone

Step 1:

At the Facebook interface, we click on the 3 dashes icon . Then go to the next interface, click on Settings & Privacy . Then we continue to click on Settings .

Step 2:

In the interface of your Facebook account settings options, we click on the item How people find and contact you .

Then we will see the setting Who can see your friends list is in Public mode for everyone to see.

Step 3:

Next, click on More to expand the options for displaying your Facebook friends list.

To prevent anyone from seeing your Facebook friends, click on Only Me .

Step 4:

In addition, Facebook also has a setting to not show the list of Facebook friends with a certain Facebook account.

Or just show a list of specific Facebook friends with which account.

How to hide Facebook friends list PC

Step 1:

On the Facebook interface, click on the triangle icon and select Settings & Privacy . Then we continue to click on Settings .

Step 2:

We click on Privacy on the left side of the Facebook interface.

Step 3:

Look at the interface next to you, find the section How people find and contact you . Then click on the setting Who can see your friends list? and adjust to Only me mode .

Step 4:

In addition, on Facebook computer, we can also adjust the mode of displaying the friend list only with certain Facebook accounts, or not allowing any Facebook accounts to see it.

Why hide your friends list on Facebook?

Facebook is absolutely a place to interact with your friends, but there are times when it's best to hide your Facebook friends list from public view.

For example, if you are looking for a job, you may want to hide your friends list from potential employers to prevent any possibility of "contact guilt".

Note : This article is not meant to be disparaging to your friends here, but just to remind you that you never know who might have a grudge against one of your Facebook friends.

And here are some other reasons…

Scammers are cloning Facebook users' accounts by copying information and photos from their profiles and using it to create entirely new accounts that look like real ones.

They then send friend requests from the fake clone accounts to everyone on the original account's friends list.

Once the scammer has tricked a fair number of the victim's friends into becoming friends with the fake clone account, he can use the fake account to perform a number of fraudulent actions on the unsuspecting "friends" who believe it is a fake account.

And in some cases, the fraudulent behavior will even be perpetrated across the entire Facebook community.

As you can see, hiding your friends list from the public removes the incentive for scammers to clone your Facebook account.

Who can see your Facebook friends?

Now, there are two possible scenarios: Everyone can see your friends list, or only your friends can see your friends list. However, regardless of who can or can’t see your full friends list, they can see if they have mutual friends with you and who they are. This can happen even if they aren’t your friends. In the example below, you can see that there are 23 mutual friends in gray text under the profile name.

Another possible scenario is that no one can see your friends list, in which case your friends list has been hidden. If you want to double-check your settings or make your friends list private, here's what to do...