What do you do when you don’t want your ex-girlfriend (whom you friended on Facebook) to see the pictures of the new girl you just posted? How do you hide the weekend drinking moments you’ve had with your friends, from your conservative relatives (and parents)?
In both situations mentioned above, not having such people as friends on Facebook is always an option. But that may not be the most convenient one. Luckily, there’s a way to hide your Facebook photos, videos, and status updates from people who shouldn’t see them.
Hide Facebook status updates from certain people
Let’s see how we can hide status messages or photos/videos we upload using the status tab from certain people.
Step 1. On the Facebook status tab on your homepage, you will find a small security lock icon next to the share button. Click it.
Step 2. You will find several options in the drop-down menu that appears. You may find that you have the option to show your status to Everyone, Friends of Friends, and Friends Only. Default is Friends Only. There is a Customize option below that. Click it.
Step 3. Clicking on the customize option will bring up the Custom Privacy box. As shown in the screenshot below, you can use the available options to show the status update to specific people as well as hide it from certain people.
When you start typing the names of the Facebook friends you want to hide, it will auto-populate the names making it easy to select them.
Similarly, you can hide photos, videos or anything you post from the status bar. You just need to make sure you use custom privacy settings, save them and then share the status.
Hide Facebook Photo Albums from certain people
Now let’s see how we can hide an entire Facebook photo album from certain people.
Step 1. Go to the sidebar on your Facebook homepage and click Photos -> My Uploads to access your album.
Step 2. Click Edit Info on the album page. As you can see below, I’m trying to hide the photos that are automatically posted to Facebook from my Posterous blog.
Step 3. Clicking Edit Info will bring up the Edit Album page where you will find a drop-down menu in the Privacy section. Again, you will find the Customize option that you need to click on.
Step 4. This step is the same as Step 3 in the process of hiding Facebook status. You can show the album to certain people or enter the names of the people you want to hide the album from.
It’s about hiding your information from some of your Facebook friends. Next time you’re about to post something naughty, just make sure you do these simple steps first. Can save you a lot of confusion and trouble. ????
And in case you want to learn more about how to hide stuff on your computer, you can check out our guide on hiding files inside jpeg/png images, hiding IP addresses, hiding folders in Windows safely and quickly hiding your desktop icons.
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