How to Stop Certain Friends From Commenting on Your Facebook Posts
By xnotion
If you have that one friend on Facebook that is always leaving you weird comments, spamming your posts, or leaving just plain rude comments, it is possible to still allow them to be your friend while preventing them from commenting on any of your posts. Facebook is well known for its social interaction and allowing many people to communicate back and forth in an open medium. However, sometimes we befriend someone who just can't seem to ever say anything nice. And because of the "social rules" of Facebook, sometimes we friend people who aren't "really" our friends. If that's the case, it is possible to allow that person to see everything on Facebook like normal, view wall posts and pictures, and even chat, but still prevent them from leaving a comment.
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The Setting Used
In order to execute this very specific, but oft-requested control, you must locate the one setting used to control who can comment on your posts. Go to Facebook, click on "Account Settings," and select "Privacy Settings." On this page, click the "customize settings" link near the bottom as shown here:
Now, scroll down and look for the heading "Things I share." Next to it, you will notice some sub-categories. Look for "Can comment on posts. Includes status updates, friends' Wall posts, and photos."
Select the drop-down menu next to it and then select "Custom."
(Note: your screen may look different, depending on your privacy settings. The drop down menu may currently say "Only Friends" or "Everyone." It doesn't matter, just click it and select "Custom.")
On the screen that appears you will notice some finer controls:
Under "Hide this from," type in the name of any of your friends that you want to prevent from commenting on your posts. Remember that they will still be able to see the post, just not comment on it. When you're finished save the setting and return to Facebook. You can add as many or few people as you wish to that screen and edit it at any time. The people you added will now be blocked from commenting on any of your posts (including pictures).
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Comments
This is under "Things others share." Thanks for the feedback!
What if out of 250 friends you have only a couple who make rude/crude comments on your wall and you want to see them but don't want anyone else to see them? Can you keep their comments hidden from everyone but yourself?
Thank you!
does the person who has been blocked get a message to say that they have been blocked? Or does it just not show up as an option for them to comment/ like? I hate the "like" feature, some people just click that they like everything, then your notifications get filled up, so annoying,
so say if i have a mutual friend with my nosey friend and i commentt on the mutual friends page can my nosey friend see the comment i left on that person wa;;
Hi Blaster,
No the person is not notified. They simply will not see a comment box under your posts, so there will be nowhere for them to type.
Sharon,
Yes, the nosey friend can see that unless your mutual friend has blocked him or her.
How do I stop people commenting on my posts on my community/group page?
Thank you SO much. Seriously. I thought I would have to delete an annoying friend and deal with the backlash until I found this page. A thousand thank yous :)
This is exactly what I need! Thank you so much!
Very helpful post . . .thanks a ton!
CAN U PLEASEEEEEEEEE put up more pics with the new facebook, the setting all look different
I agree. I badly need it too. This has been disabled from what I can see.
Permission to comment on your posts
This setting is being removed so that instead of having a separate setting for who can see your post and who can comment on it, now these are both controlled at the same time using your inline controls. You can always remove comments from your posts or change the audience for the post after you post it.
how do you stop people liking your posts? how? stupid setting changes.
damn what a pain in the ass! just had a bunch of spam posts on my status while i was at work. i want every1 to read my posts but don't want embarrassing comments from people like my mum lol. wish facebook would stop changing stuff. i cant find a way to block certain people from writing stuff now
these changes are very stupid, because if you have disabled a person to like or comment on your posts, now you cannot reverse these settings.
Thanks! This is very useful information! I thought the only way was to "block" someone I had no idea you could do all this!
Do you know if you are tagged yourself in a picture that someone who is blocked from you has on their page, would it then be removed from that person's page?
This is really helpful. Thank you. Oh, wait...no it's not. This shit doesn't even exist anymore.
doesnt work anymore - are there any other solutions?
WHY DID THEY DO AWAY THIS????
IDIOTS, people liked FB for its privacy options, having an option to disallow comments and likes from certain people is very important - FB are getting very stuiped?
Now this what I'm talking abuot... new facebook doesn't let you do that. :(
does anyone know how to do this in NEW FB ?
Facebook scrapped this option and of course told no one. I can't wait till a new social network which honors privacy emerges and all authoritarian egomaniacs at facebook find their company worthless as everyone's moved.
Just like the youth internet push for Obama, Arab spring - even Occupy Wall Street - the youth will eventually have had enough of facebook's antics - facebook will become uncool - and like 'Dom' says, a movement will arise, change to a new social network, those who run facebook will be too far up their own arses to realize what's happening and facebook will slowly die like myspace.
Where is the privacy
facebook's privacy settings page has been amended....
so how do i deal with this...
What about for the new facebook?
yeah i still cant keep my friends from commenting when i dont want them to. i have no "custom setting"--i have selected for "who can post on my wall"--but friends still manage to comment on my posts when i dont want them to. WHY
i can't comment on any post? every time i try to comment ... i get this message : "Sorry, you are blocked from leaving comments due to continued overuse of this feature." any help ??? plz....
I am in an open group and want to stop someone in that gropu seeing my comments. They are not on my friend list but how can I stop them seeing my comments to other members?
Well, when you post a comment on your page, there is a tab below the text so you can choose who to prevent from participating in your status, etc,... it works for me.
i want that person to see but not allow him to further comment. how do i do that?
Most of us have friends who leave comments that are embarrassingly lame, stupid, inappropriate (dropping the eff bomb, for example), or that simply don't fit with the comment thread. One year at Christmas, I posted a portrait of the Virgin Mary, with good wishes for the Holy Season.
One of my atheist homosexual friends felt compelled to post something sacrilegious about faith, sex, and sex with the Mother of God. It was unspeakably offensive. At that time I was able to block him from commenting on my posts. Not any longer.
I hate to unfriend these people, as that can be rude or meaner than I want to be. I have business relationships with some. Before facebook screwed things up (again) most recently, we could adjust the settings so certain people couldn't comment or post on our wall.
Naturally, facebook removed that simple option, and now it is so complicated I can't keep it straight. One must split people into all these lists, or groups, and then remember who is in what list or group. Further, the "who can see this" option is not usually available when posting from a mobile device.
So now, for example, when I post about a serious date, such as 911, or the death of a notable person, I can be sure some attention starved dickhead will leave a post that adds nothing, and is completely inappropriate. This happened on the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. On the 10th anniversary of 911, someone posted "Free Noriega"! Perfect place for the dumbest comment in the history of the social network!
Facebook will eventually destroy itself. In less than a year's time, it went from a social site where there were tons of things to do, read, and check out, to a pasted up bunch of shite, the most infamous of which is that moronic scroll in the upper right hand corner. It is hard to follow, read, or interact with the scroll. Now there is little to do, other than check for lame comments some fool (who thinks he is both witty and clever) might have left.
Thankfully, facebook hasn't yet ruined my personal profile page. I have seen those that have been revised, though, and it is a nightmarish and Rube Goldberg conglomeration of junk that looks like a middle school student made a poster for a contest (and lost).
Want to know where the action is? Twitter. Always something to read, see, check out, do and/or comment on. Twitter doesn't continually eff up the site with changes and "improvements" our users demanded.
I suspect facebook hired too many people who have too little to do. Someone somewhere has conducted "studies" about what people want to see on facebook. Yet they are almost always wrong.
In any case, they ruined it this time. I rarely log in to facebook, but I'm always on Twitter. There is but one thing on which we can all bet the farm: Facebook NEVER responds to user complaints, petitions or whines. When they change something, it is forever effed up.
Sad really, and I hope there'll be competition soon.
And yes, I must be on speed to write so much about such an insignificant matter.
Randall... if they are your friend, maybe you should listen to what they say. If not, why are you friending them? I suspect this is because... you should listen to what they say.
Steve - Sometimes you want to have the friend but some people just don't have very good judgement about what to post publicly. Private messages are fine with these people but you don't want to wonder just what and when they are going to post something inappropriate next. This is for those people. Not everyone is perfect I guess.
Yes it is sad but true that just like in person, people don't know when to keep their mouths shut. Anyone have a cousin from somewhere rural? That's why we need this feature back. In their circle it may be socially acceptable to sling racially insensitive or bigoted remarks around with their friends on facebook.Anyone have a right wing fundamentalist uncle who is so closed minded it's amazing that his head doesn't implode? Yah I still want to see my family and their photos and know how they are, I just don't want them to make asses of themselves at my expense.
This must be for the original facebook, how do u do this on the Timeline???
Delia2010 20 months ago
Very helpful! thanks but is it under "things I share" or "Things other shares"?