What is the Restricted list on Facebook

How to Restrict Someone on Facebook

• Shubham Agarwal

  @phonesoldier



• May 29, 2021, 10:24am EDT

Dont want to share all of your posts with every person youve friended on Facebook? Facebook lets you restrict people and prevent them from reading your private posts without unfriending them. Heres how to do it.

What Does Restricted Mean on Facebook?

When you restrict a friend on Facebook, they can no longer read your private posts. Facebook doesnt notify the people you restrict, nor does it remove them from your friends list. The restricted profile simply wont be able to access posts youve made available to only your friends.

Like everyone else on Facebook, the people on your restricted list can still read posts that youve chosen to make public and see the photos or videos that youve tagged them in. This preference doesnt work both ways, which means that youll continue to see the private posts of the people on your restricted list.

Add Friends to Your Facebook Restricted List

To restrict a friend on Facebook, visit the social networks website on your Mac, Windows, or Linux desktop browser and sign in to your profile.

Next, click the downward-facing arrow in the top-right corner and head into Settings & Privacy.

Select Settings fromthe following dropdown of options.

Visit the Blocking section from the menu on the left.

Click the Edit List link next to the Restricted List option.

Choose Friends in the dropdown in the top-left corner of the pop-up window.

You should see a grid of all your friends profile pictures. Select the friends youd like to restrict and hit the Finish button.

If you want to remove someone from your restricted list, revisit the same Edit List option and uncheck the profiles whose friend privileges you want to restore. Click Finish to save your changes.

Similar to Facebook, you can also restrict people on Instagram.