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How to Hide Your Profile On Facebook

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Facebook offers several levels of privacy protection, including hiding your profile from certain people and/or offering a limited profile. With just a few tweaks of the settings, you can easily set exactly who sees what on your profile.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Facebook account
  • Computer with Internet access

    Hide Only Your Profile

  1. Step 1

    Sign on to the Facebook home page with your email address and password (see Resources below).

  2. Step 2

    Click on "My Privacy" to change who can see your profile. The My Privacy page lets you adjust each feature of your Facebook account separately. If you only want to hide certain features, like the mini-feed or photos, then adjust only those preferences.

  3. Step 3

    Click on "Edit Settings" for the limited profile. You will land on a page with a preview of your current limited profile.

  4. Step 4

    Choose all or none of the Facebook features you want people to see on your limited profile. To completely hide your profile, make sure all boxes are unchecked before hitting the "Save" button.

  5. Step 5

    Add people to the limited profile list from the My Privacy page. People you put on the list can only view the features you let them see. They will still be your friends, however.

  6. Hide Yourself Completely on Facebook

  7. Step 1

    Head to the "My Privacy" page while logged in to Facebook.

  8. Step 2

    Search for users to add to the "Block People' list. You can add any user on Facebook. Once added, that user will not be able to view any part of your profile or find you when doing searches. This is the best way to hide completely from someone.

  9. Step 3

    Find the user you want to block and simply click "Block Person" next to his or her name.

  10. Step 4

    Click "Remove" next to the person's name if you later decide you don't want to block the person. If the person was your friend on Facebook, you will have to request to be his or her friend again.

Tips & Warnings
  • If you use the privacy settings on Facebook properly, you can control every aspect of your profile and who sees it. See the Help section for more information on setting the various privacy levels (see Resources below).
  • The only way to truly hide on Facebook and completely protect your identity is to delete your account entirely. Otherwise, you must add each person you want to hide from individually.

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on 8/15/2009 Thats a bit long winded theres a shorter trick located @ http://www.facebookloginhut.com/facebook-tricks/hide-my-facebook-status/

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on 7/19/2009 1. Sign in.
2. Click on "Friends" button (on the top bar)
3. Make a "Limited Profile" group
4. Add certain friends to said group
5. Hold your mouse over "Settings"
6. Highlight and Select "Privacy Settings"
7. Click on "Profile" (Not the button on the top blue bar, the one on the page)
8. Select any setting on that page of your choice
9. Highlight and select "Custom" on the drop down menu
10. Type in "Limited Profile"
11. Repeat Steps 8-10 as needed.
12. Don't forget to save!

misterbill said

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on 2/13/2009 This is a useful article, but is there a way to prevent even my friends from seeing who my other friends are? That does not seem to be doable.

serenatali said

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on 1/20/2009 p.s this is all I can find on the privacy page. For the love of all that is good, where the hell can I find the limited profile button. I hate facebook for today....

Control who can see your profile and related information. Visit the Applications page in order to change settings for applications.

See how a friend sees your profile:

Profile
Who can see this?
My Networks and FriendsFriends of FriendsOnly FriendsCustomize...
Friends of Friends
Only Friends
Only Me

Who Can See This?
My Networks and FriendsFriends of FriendsOnly FriendsCustom
FriendsAll Friends can see this.
Friends of Friends
My friends and their friends can see this.Only Friends
Only friends can see this.NetworksAll Networks can see this.
All of My NetworksSome of My Networks...None of My Networks
San Antonio, TX

Save this group of people as a friend list and you'll be able to use this lis

serenatali said

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on 1/20/2009 this sounded like the perfect article untill, I could not find anything resembling " my privacy button " that you are talking about. So back to all sorts of people i dont really like having all kinds of access on my page. I just dont want to be rude and deleate them, but its gonna get to that...

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