In general, Facebook and social media are all about connecting you with other people and sharing important events with your network of friends.
If privacy is essential to you, there are ways to filter what your Facebook friends can see and what elements remain hidden from their view.
In this guide, we’re going to show you how you can stop your Facebook friends from seeing your activity, likes, and Friends list.
How to Hide Your Friends List on Facebook
- Click on your account menu on PC or profile picture on Android.
- Go to Settings and Privacy.
- Then, select Who can see what you share.
- Click on Continue to go to the settings you’re interested in.
- Navigate to Friends and following.
- Go to Who can see your Friends list on your profile?
- Then select Only me to hide your list of friends.
How to Hide Your Activity on Facebook
- Go to Settings and Privacy.
- Then select Who can see what you share.
- Hit Continue and then Next to go to Posts and stories.
- You can control who can see your future posts. If you want to hide them completely, select Only me.
- The Only me option is not available for stories. However, you set the privacy settings to Friends. In other words, only your friends will be able to see your stories.
- There is also the option to Limit past posts.
- This means that you can hide past posts that were previously set to Public or Friends of friends. More specifically, only your friends will see your past posts.
- If you want to undo this action, you need to manually edit the audience of each post.
How to Hide the People and Pages You Follow on Facebook
- Go Settings and Privacy.
- Then select Who can see what you share.
- Go to Friends and following.
- Navigate to Who can see the people, Pages, and lists you follow?
- If you want to hide any information related to the people, pages, and lists that you follow, select the Only me option.
- Or you can choose to hide this information from friends except for a few specific friends.
- If you want to hide any information related to the people, pages, and lists that you follow, select the Only me option.
How Do I Make My Comments Private on Facebook?
Unfortunately, you can’t hide your Facebook comments. Only the person who initially shared the post can change the privacy settings of that post. If they decide to hide or delete the post, the same thing will happen to your comment.
As long as the post’s privacy is set to Public, it will remain visible. And so will your comment.
We hope this guide answered your questions.
Jillian says
This is extremely hurtful and unsafe to push my comments from pages into the notifications of people unaffiliated. One of the pages I go to for support is no longer a safe place for me to talk because imy comment showed up as a notification to people I don’t want it going to. It seems Facebook just wants to be a business app and not a safe place for real connection.
PR says
If I’m commenting on random news pages why are my friends getting notified ? And if that’s the case why am I NOT getting notifications on any of their regular comments. I only get notified of my sisters comments no one else but they all get notified of my comments ?? This is annoying and isn’t consistent if it’s normal business.
Anna says
There was a time on Facebook (2006-2007 i think) when all your activity was posted on your wall (likes and comments).
Now Facebook seems to do the same thing, I’ve seen some profiles from my phone (facebook app, lite, or web) and at the top appears what the person has posted on groups or friend’s wall or liked or commented). Obviously to see all this, you must be friend of the friend of this person or the person is liking or making comments on public posts.
The point is, that all is coming back and since this new characteristic seems to work only for some devices, I don’t know which people has been starting to see my activity -_-.
Maureen says
I am so tired of my friends commenting on a comment on a post which they are not included or a part of. This needs to change its an invasion of privacy.
I dont want all my friends seeing my comment which has nothing to do with them. The newspaper articles should be made private .
Kim says
This is a function of FB that should be reconsidered. Like the others state, my comments on organizations’ posts should not prompt a notification to friends.
Susan says
I believe FB does this on purpose to cause conflict, just like the media.
Foxhound 🦊 says
Couldn’t agree more with the above comments… If it wasn’t for some family members i stay in touch with on Facebook. I would’ve delete my account immediately.
Dave ATX says
I have the same exact question as everyone else…Facebooks automatically posts a list of your recent posts on your timeline, even to pages none of your friends subscribe to…..this is a RIDICULOUS violation of privacy. Facebook, why do you not respect the wishes of your users???
Dale says
This s the worst thing oh the whole Facebook that you cannot hide your comments on other pages from your friends. That way Iost so many of them cos our views on soome things are so different. If they don’t want to see your comments anymore they have to unfollow or befriend you. This must changed immediately.
EP says
I don’t like that my Friends can see my comments on pages they aren’t a part of. It’s not like I say embarrassing things, but they are meant for the group I am commenting to. People in one group I”m in ask opinions on personal issues they post and when I comment my Friends sometimes ‘like’ or comment back! It’s so frustrating! I should be able to control this, but currently I can’t. PLEASE CHANGE THIS!
Brian says
I don’t care so much about them being able to see something if they’re looking for it. I should be able to stop them from getting something on their timeline that shows them the comment or reaction to my post.
Yingwei Wang says
How do I hide my likes and comments from my friends on Facebook?
Max says
My friends get notifications of my comments to posts they have nothing to do with. Why is that? I can’t comment on anything just to prevent my friends from being annoyed by useless notifications.
C says
My brother is now angry with me because he was notified about a comment I made about the way he does laundry on a mental illness page that I follow that he does not follow.
This is part of my processing. And it should be private.
Robin Craig says
I absolutely agree with the above comments! My comments to people should not be seen by my friends when they aren’t even friends with the person I’m commenting on. I’m not even sure how this is happening!
ivy says
i agree, facebook is not protecting my privacy if my friends can see what i comment on some page they are not even following! this is ridiculous and i ll stop using fb, it is not worth the hassle, i don’t feel comfortable. fb you’re a joke now, like page for kids.
Maile says
So uncalled-for to NOTIFYING Friends when we comment on pages they have nothing to do with! I don’t mind if they ‘happen to see’ it, but directing their attention to something you’ve said to others is embarrassing.
Raegan says
I want the fact that others on my friends list can see what I comment on other pages. It feels wrong and uncomfortable for me and a lot of others I’ve talked to.
Mike says
How can I stop friends from seeing comments I make on pages they are not a part of?
Stephanie Smith says
My friends can see page’s that they aren’t on. I don’t like this there should be a way to stop this happening