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How to Easily Hide Friends on FB Using a Smartphone and PC, Privacy Space Becomes Safer

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Kapanlagi.com - The social media platform Facebook has various interesting features that can be used by its users. One of them is the privacy feature that users can easily adjust. Like hiding friends on FB, which is actually quite easy to do with a smartphone or PC.

As we know, when having a Facebook account, various information is displayed, one of which is the list of friends on FB. However, it turns out that you can easily and practically hide friends on FB.

Although for some users, they choose to display the list of friends on FB, some tend to want to hide it. The reasons, of course, vary. One of them is to keep privacy more secure.

If you want to know how to hide friends on FB, there are several steps that can be tried. Especially if previously your friend's privacy settings were still public, of course, the following steps to hide friends on FB need to be known.

 

1. How to Hide Friends on Facebook Using a Mobile Phone

There are many reasons why a user of the Facebook social media platform decides to maintain their privacy. Not only posts and stories, but FB users can also manage their personal information on social media. One of them is by hiding friends on FB.

This guide is certainly very useful for those of you who want to try to maintain the privacy of your social media accounts, especially Facebook. Moreover, the steps to hide friends on FB are relatively easy and simple. Because, you can hide friends on FB through various devices, whether it's a smartphone or a laptop.

However, this time we will discuss how to hide friends on FB using a smartphone, which is very easy to practice. The following is a review of how to hide friends on FB using a smartphone that you can follow below.

1. How to Hide Friends on FB with an Application

- If you don't have the Facebook (FB) application yet, you can download and install it first.

- If it's already installed, you can log in with your FB account.

- Then click on the three-line icon in the upper right corner.

- Then you can choose the Settings & Privacy option.

- Click on Privacy Shortcuts.

- Later, there will be several options that you can choose to manage privacy on FB. You can click on See More Privacy Settings.

- Next, select Who Can See Your Friend List?

- You will see a display of Friends List that is still Public. To change the setting and hide it, you can choose See More.

- Then you can change the Friend List settings to Only Me.

- Then you have successfully changed the setting to hide friends on FB.

- Done.

2. How to Hide Friends on FB via Browser

- You can open the browser on your phone to log in to your Facebook account.

- After that, visit the official FB site https://www.facebook.com/

- Log in to your Facebook account through the browser.

- After successfully logging in to the homepage on FB, you can directly click on the three-line icon option in the upper right corner.

- Then select the Shortcut Privacy option.

- After entering the Privacy Shortcut menu, then select See More Privacy Settings.

- Then you will see several menu options to adjust your account's privacy. To hide friends on FB, you can click on Who Can See Your Friend List?

- After that, you can choose the Only Me option to hide friends on FB.

- Done.

 

2. How to Hide Friends on Facebook Using a PC/Laptop

As mentioned in the previous review, hiding friends on Facebook can not only be done using a mobile phone, but also using a PC or laptop. You don't need to be confused about how to hide friends on Facebook using a PC because the steps are just as easy.

That's why below is a review of how to hide friends on Facebook using a laptop or PC that you can try. The review of how to hide friends on Facebook using a PC can be found below.

- To log in to your Facebook account using a PC, you can open it with a browser.

- Then visit the official Facebook site through the PC.

- You can log in with your FB account to change the privacy settings of your friends.

- Next, click on your FB profile.

- Then click on Friends on your profile page.

- After that, you will see a list of friends on FB, but to adjust the privacy of your friends, you can click on the three-dot icon in the upper right corner.

- Click on Edit Privacy.

- Then you can change the settings to Only Me.

- Done.

 

3. How to Hide Friends on Facebook and Its Benefits

After knowing the guide on how to hide friends on Facebook using a mobile phone and PC, information about the benefits of hiding friends on Facebook below is also important for you to know. The importance of maintaining privacy on social media certainly provides several benefits for its users.

- Keeping personal information safer.

- Avoiding misuse of personal data.

- Avoiding crimes on social media.

- Avoiding various negative or irresponsible comments.

- Maintaining mental and emotional health that makes you feel more comfortable and safe.

Those are some explanations about how to hide friends on Facebook that are very easy to practice. Hopefully, it can help you to change friend settings on Facebook practically.

 

(kpl/gen/nlw)

Disclaimer: This translation from Bahasa Indonesia to English has been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
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