Steps to Use Facebook Restricted List

Do you want to keep some of your posts private from a few Facebook friends? This article explains how to restrict someone on Facebook and keep them from reading your private posts without unfriending them.

Successfully restricting someone will also prevent them from seeing any of your content in their Facebook feed for the duration of the restriction. Facebook has a few steps for using this feature that is intended to help users maintain a proper work or private life balance.

What Does Restricted Mean on Facebook?

Restricting friends on Facebook means they cannot read your private posts. Facebook neither notifies nor deletes the people you restrict from your friend list. Simply put, posts you’ve made solely visible to your friends won’t be accessible to the restricted profiles.

Users on your restricted list can still view any photos or videos you have tagged them in. They can also view posts you have made available to the public. The restriction feature is only one way. You’d still be able to see all the private posts of the people on your restricted list.

The globe icon indicates a public post, whereas the two-person mark denotes a Friends post. And the privacy setting of a post can be altered by changing it using the ellipsis menu in the top-right corner of the post.

How to Restrict Someone on Facebook?

Facebook’s restricted list feature allows you to hide posts from specific friends. There is no set number of people you can add to this list. Anyone who is a Facebook friend can be added or removed at any moment. However, it takes some time to understand how to properly set up these privacy settings and restrict who you want to interact with. Here’s how to restrict someone on Facebook in a few simple steps.

• Open the official Facebook App or website on your phone or desktop browser. Sign in to your profile if you aren’t logged in already.
• Visit the Facebook profile of the friend you want to restrict. You can type in their name on the search bar of Facebook to find them easily.
• Tap on the button that says Friends.
• Click on the Edit Friend List from the drop-down menu.
• You will be presented with various Facebook lists created to group the users you interact with on the social network. Scroll down to the bottom of the list and tap on Restricted to add that friend to the list.

Can Friends Find Out If They Are Restricted?

Facebook doesn’t notify its users if their names are being added or removed from a list. Thus, your friends will not find out that they are added to your Restricted list. You can add or remove them from your Restricted list whenever you want.

Wrapping Up

You may not want all your colleagues, friends, or family to see all your private and professional posts on Facebook. The reasons could be anything from avoiding negative comments from specific people to keeping your personal from your coworkers.

If you are part of an organization where you need to respect certain rules, you can restrict people from seeing specific posts.

Facebook has a simple way of doing this. All the steps are outlined in this post. It will help you stay connected to your coworkers without sharing too much of your personal life.