Privacy Settings 101: How To Hide Your Facebook Friends List

by Sean on December 11, 2009

With the new Facebook privacy settings now in effect, by default your friends list is now public for all to see. This may not be an issue for you, but is not desired for some. If you for some reason don’t want who is in your friends list to be in the public view of everyone, here are the steps to hide it.

1. Log into facebook

2. Click on profile

3. In the box on the left titled ‘Friends’ click on the pencil.

4. Uncheck the ‘Show my friends on my profile’ box

5. Click the pencil again

There you have it, stalker dodgin’ complete. Your friends list is hidden. Please share this link, the life you save could be your own.

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{ 7 comments }

Sean Oliver December 12, 2009 at 4:31 pm

Good point. This is only a start to be sure. Thanks for the comment
and link!

philipolson December 12, 2009 at 4:29 pm

Good advice, although “stalker dodgin' complete” is a strong term considering all of the other privacy settings we're required to know about and adjust. The following is a blog post from yesterday that some here might find interesting:

- http://daggle.com/facebooks-microsoft-moment-1556

private December 14, 2009 at 11:12 pm

This no longer works.

Your friends list is always visible to your friends now. Thus, I deleted my Facebook account.
If I want to hide my friends list FROM my friends, I should be able to. Now, I can't.. so, goodbye, Facebook.

Sean Oliver December 14, 2009 at 11:17 pm

It does in fact work. Check out my profile listing.
http://www.facebook.com/sean.oliver

Jenburger January 10, 2010 at 11:49 am

YESSSSSSSSS. There's nothing like properly dodging stalkers. And this helps me become one…step…closer.

Sean Oliver January 11, 2010 at 10:49 am

Just doin' what I can J.

Sean Oliver January 11, 2010 at 6:49 pm

Just doin' what I can J.

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