How To Restrict Friends On Facebook

How To Restrict Friends On Facebook: Do you know Facebook has a feature that lets you restricts friends from bothering you on the platform?

This is not blocking.

It is known called Facebook Restricted List.

Facebook restricted list is where you can add those people you don’t want to interact with but still want to maintain your friendship with them.

According to the Facebook Help Center, when you add someone on your Restricted list, you’re still friends, however, you only share your posts with them when you choose Public as the audience, or when you tag them in the post.

See: Steps on How to Delete or Clear Notifications on Facebook

Other words, if you don’t configure your audience to public or tag those people you’ve included in your restricted list on Facebook, they can’t see your post and can’t interact with them.

So, if you have people you feel deserves to be placed in your Facebook restricted list, this post teaches you how to get that done with ease.

Let’s see a typical example of what happens when you add someone to your restricted list on Facebook.

An example is if you’re friends with your boss and you put them on your Restricted list, then post a photo and choose Friends as the audience, you aren’t sharing that photo with your boss, or anyone else on your Restricted list.

If your boss goes to your profile, they won’t be able to see anything you haven’t tagged them in or shared as Public.

However, if you add a photo and tag your boss in that photo, or chose Public as the audience, they’ll be able to see it.

In this post, I’m going to walk you through the step by step guidelines on how to add your friends to your restricted list on Facebook. You’ll see how to do that on your browser and applications.

How To Add Friends To Restricted List On Facebook
Here’s how to add annoying friends to restricted list on Facebook.

First, log into your Facebook account if you’ve not done that already and follow the below steps;

1. Click the name of the person you want to add to your restricted list to go to their Profile

2. Hover over Friends🔻 at the top of their profile

3. Click Add to another list

4. Click Restricted

How To See Who Is On Your Restricted List:
To view the people on your restricted list, do this;

1. Click Friend Lists under Explore on the left side of your Facebook News Feed

2. Click Restricted

See: My Blocked List On Facebook

How  To Remove Someone From Your Restricted List
To remove somebody from the restricted list, do this;

1. Click Manage List in the top right,

2. Click Edit List.

3. Click on a friend’s profile picture to remove them from your Restricted list.

Let’s Also see how we can add friends to restricted list on Facebook using iPhone and Android devices.

See: How to unblock Someone on Facebook Android App

ON iPhone Device
To add someone to your Restricted list:

1. Go to your friend’s profile

2. Tap Friends underneath their profile picture

3. Tap Edit Friend Lists

4. Tap Restricted

ON Android Device
To add someone to your Restricted list:
1. Go to your friend’s profile

2. Tap Friends underneath their profile picture

3. Tap Edit Friend List

4. Tap Restricted

That is how to add friends to restricted list on facebook.

See: How To View People You’ve Blocked On Facebook

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