How to Hide Your Birthday on Facebook

How to Hide Your Birthday on Facebook : For some of us, Facebook serves as a reminder to us. For example, when friends birth date approaches, Facebook serves a notice to alert us of it. The same way, when it’s our birthday, Facebook alerts our friends. Aside from this, when a friend writes something on their wall or post, Facebook notifies us.

How to Hide Your Birthday on Facebook

In this post, we are going to look at how you can stop Facebook from announcing your birthday to friends. This can be annoying to some, people prefer to keep some part of their private life personal and away from friends.

If not about personal life, at times when Facebook announces our birthday we receive lots of messages on our wall and inbox. If you have a thousand friends, you are going to need to reply most of the messages in your inbox and wall which seems tedious if you are a busy person.

To avoid this situation, one may opt to prevent their friends from getting notifications for their birthday at all. Close friends will always remember your birthday, and will always send you well wishes. The average person has say 20 close friends at most, and replying to 20 well wishes shouldn’t be a problem at all for most people.

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How to Prevent Facebook from Notifying Your Friends of Your Birthday

If you wish to go ahead and prevent all your friends getting notifications on your birthday, follow the steps presented below.

On Facebook App

On your Facebook app, tap on the avatar icon at the top(Android) or bottom(iOS) to access your profile.
Scroll down and tap “Edit profile“.
Scroll down to the “Basic Info” section and tap “edit“.
Tap on the drop-down arrow beside “Birthday” and set to “Only Me“.
Set the “Birthyear” option to “Only Me” as well.

On Facebook Website

Once logged onto Facebook via the Facebook website, visit your Timeline and click “About“.
Select “Contact and Basic Info” in the left pane.
Choose “Only Me” option for “Birthday” and “Birth Year“.

Doing this will remove your birth information from your profile and also ensure none of your friends get notifications on your birthday, about your birthday.