How To Remove Yourself From Facebook Search Results

My mom is a teacher and one of the first things she asked me when she joined Facebook is how she could make sure her students couldn’t see that she was on the site. Understandably, my mom doesn’t want her middle school students to know what she’s up to in her personal life. There are numerous reasons that individuals don’t want their information to show up in search results on Facebook, and it’s simple to turn off your public visibility.

How to Remove Yourself From Facebook Search Results 

Within the new search privacy settings page, Facebook has made things extremely straight forward. There are now two settings: one for those people who can find you when searching on Facebook, and one for those searching within search engines (which the next section describes). In order to prevent others from finding you in Facebook’s search results, it’s two quick steps:

Step 1. Visit your search privacy settings page

Step 2. Click on “Edit Settings” and enter your password

Step 3. Next to “Facebook Search Results” select the “Only Friends” privacy setting

Strangely enough, Facebook doesn’t require you to click on “Save Changes” anymore, however these new settings should now be set.