How to Block a Friend in your Facebook Account – Facebook offers privacy settings that let you control your level of visibility on the social media platform. Depending on how much privacy you want, use these settings to control who sees your posts or presence on Facebook. Here’s how to not let anyone find you on Facebook by customizing your settings so that you don’t show up in a Facebook search.

Note: This information covers customizing your Facebook privacy and visibility with Facebook on a desktop as well as in the Facebook mobile app.

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How to Adjust Who Can See Your Facebook Posts

Facebook lets you make your posts as visible or invisible as you like. Here’s how to adjust who can see your Facebook posts.

Using Facebook on a Desktop Computer in a Web Browser

1. On your Facebook home page, select the Account icon (the down arrow) in the upper-right corner.

2. Select Settings & Privacy.

3. Select Settings.

4. From the left menu pane, select Privacy.

5. Go the Your Activity section, then, next to Who can see your future posts?, select Edit.

Note: The default setting is Friends.

6. Select the Friends (or your current setting) drop-down arrow.

7. Select Public to allow anyone on or off Facebook to see your posts.

8. Select Friends to allow all your Facebook friends to see your posts.

9. Select Friends except to block specific friends from seeing your posts. Select the minus sign next to the name of the friend you want to block.

10. Select Save Changes when you’re done choosing friends.

11. Select Only me to hide posts from everyone except yourself.

12. Select More to choose Specific friends, which allows you to choose who sees your posts, or Custom, which allows you to include or exclude certain friends.

13. After you make your adjustments, select Close in the upper-right corner of the Your Activity window.

Note: To restrict access to previous posts, go to Privacy > Your Activity. Next to Limit the audience for posts you’ve shared with friends of friends or Public?, select Limit Past Posts and follow the prompts.

Using the Facebook Mobile App

It’s also easy to modify who can see your posts if you use the Facebook mobile app for iOS or Android.

1. Open the Facebook app on your mobile device.

2. Tap the Facebook icon at the bottom-center of the screen.

3. Scroll down and tap Settings & Privacy.

4. Tap Settings.

5. Scroll down to Privacy and tap Privacy Settings.

6. Under Your Activity, tap Who can see your future posts?

7. Tap Try it now to launch a new post.

8. Tap Friends (or your previous setting) under your name.

9. On the Edit Audience page, under Who can see your post?, tap the circle next to Public, Friends, Friends except, Only me, or More > Specific Friends.

10. Tap Done when you’ve made your selection. You’ve set who can see your future posts.

Note: To limit who can see your past posts, go to Privacy Settings > Your Activity and tap Limit who can see past posts.