How to hide your friends on Facebook?

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I received an email from Jojo asking the following question:

I have lots of friends on Facebook. The thing is that i am not really interested in showing off those friends to the world. Is there a way to hide Friends on Facebook?

Thanks for Asking Jojo. It is possible to restrict access to your friends list on Facebook and even to hide it completely from certain individuals. Here’s how you do it:

  1. Login to Facebook, Hit Settings
  2. Hit Privacy Settings
  3. Click Profile
  4. Scroll down to the friends drop down box
  5. Select Customize. You’ll see the following screen:

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  6. Here you can specify who will actually be able to see your friends list. You can hide friends from individuals who are members of certain networks. You can even make your friends list hidden to certain individuals.


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  1. Meena says:
    July 26, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Please can you help me how to hide my friends list from my friends? I tired to follow the steps but still friends list is visible I don’t know why please plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me out

  2. janetbob says:
    August 3, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    You can’t hide it completely. The most restriction you could do is only make it visible to your friends and none of your networks, and then additionally to any names you list on the “Except These People” box.

  3. janetbob says:
    August 3, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    You can’t hide it completely. The most restriction you can do is to have it visible to only friends and none of your networks, and then additionally make it invisible to names you add in the “Except These People” box.

  4. Chris says:
    August 20, 2009 at 11:51 am

    This answer does not help. The limitation with this is that every single friend you add, you must then go back in to your privacy settings and add this friend to this “custom list” if you don’t want them seeing your current friend list.

    In the meanwhile, this new friend will be able to see your friend list, which defeats the point entirely.

    There should be an option for “Only Me” in who can view my friend list. Perhaps one day Facebook Developers will add this.

    Chris

  5. Albara says:
    September 1, 2009 at 4:09 am

    there is a trick that you can follow .. which is add all of your friends into lists or groups .. like (Family),(College),(Co-Workers),(annoying people) .. etc. that way you can add the entire list or group int the [Except] field .. which will to the trick ..

    and every time you add a new friend, just classify them on one of your lists .. an they will never see your friends list ever :)

  6. reggie says:
    October 8, 2009 at 3:11 am

    ok i see above what to do but where is the ” except field”??
    How do we let Facebook know that they just need to add a button that says ” just me ” so that only the owner of the sight can veiw friends???
    help!!!

  7. Zee says:
    November 6, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    How do I stop people who aren’t logged in from seeing my friendlist?

    When I access my facebook profile while not logged in I can see:

    Here are some of Zee’s friends:

    and

    Zee is a fan of:Games
    Sid Meier’s Civilization Network

    How do I make my profile anonymous to people who aren’t logged in?

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