How to Hide a Link and Send It on Facebook

Hiding a link and sending it on Facebook is comparable to whispering.

Facebook lets you send links as status updates for your friends, friends of friends or everyone in the world to see, depending on your general privacy preferences. The links appear on your Facebook Wall and in the News Feeds of the parties to whom you permit access. If you want to post a link but share it with a smaller group of people than you normally do, you can tighten the privacy settings for just that post.

Instructions

1. Log in to Facebook and click inside the "What's on Your Mind?" status update box at the top of your News Feed.

2. Type or paste a link in the status update box and then click the padlock-shaped privacy button to the left of the "Share" button below. A drop-down menu appears.

3. Click "Friends of Friends" in the privacy button drop-down menu to hide the link from everyone button your immediate and second-degree networks. Click "Friends Only" to hide the link from everyone but your friends. Click "Customize" to restrict the link to specific friends and lists or to hide it from certain other friends and lists.

4. Click the "Share" button below the status update box to send the link as a status update on Facebook. Only those who you specified will see the link on your profile or in their News Feeds.

References

• Facebook Help Center: How Can I Control Who Can See Things I Post (for Example: Status Updates, Links, Videos)?
• Facebook Help Center: How Do I Update My Status?