How To Block People On Facebook

Last week I showed you how to Unfollow People and Pages on Facebook. If you missed that one, here it is:

How To Unfollow Facebook Pages/People

Since I covered the Unfollow last week, I felt I needed to show you how you can Block them. This is something you can reverse if you change your mind down the road. What does Blocking someone actually do, you might be asking?

When you block someone’s profile on Facebook, that profile will no longer be able to do things such as tag your profile or see things you post on your profile.

If you have additional Facebook profiles, you’ll need to manage blocking from each of your profiles separately.

How To Block People On Facebook

We will be showing this on the Facebook website using my Windows laptop. There are many ways you can do this and I will show you three of them.

How To Block People On Facebook Through Settings

Step 1:  Head over to Facebook.com and log in to your account.

Step 2: Once on, look to the top right for your Profile image. Click on that and a menu will appear. On this menu find, “Settings & privacy,” and click it.

Step 3: Another menu will appear and you will want to click on Settings, which is at the top.

Step 4:  On the Settings and privacy screen look to the left menu. Scroll down to the section called Audience and visibility and under that find Blocking. Click it.

Step 5: Here on the Blocking menu in the middle of the screen you will have many options.

Manage Blocking :

• Restricted list
• Block users
• Block messages
• Block app invitations
• Block event invites.

For this article, click on the Edit button to the right on Block Users.

Step 6: A window will pop up, “Block Users,” with a message about it.

Once you block someone, that person can no longer see things you post on your timeline, tag you, invite you to events or groups, start a conversation with you, or add you as a friend. Note: Does not include apps, games or groups you both participate in.

There are two options that you can select:

• Add to blocked list
• See your blocked list

We want to add someone so click Add to blocked list.

Step 7: Here they will give you a Search box at the top so you can find the person you want to block. Type in the name and once they pop up, look to the right of them. There you will see a Block button. Click it.

Step 8: After you click that button you will see this window. This will let you know what blocking them will entail. If you want to move forward with this, click the Confirm button at the bottom. Once you have confirmed it, a window will appear confirming that you blocked them. Click the Close button and you are DONE.

You now know how to do this through the Settings. Time to show you another way.

How To Block People On Facebook Posts

Step 1: As you are looking at your news feed you might see someone’s post that you want to block. To block this user look to the top right of the post. You will see 3 dots. Click on those and a menu will pop up. On the menu, you are looking for Block (Name) profile. Click that which is at the bottom.

After blocking them you will see the confirmation where the post was. Done!

We have one more way that I want to show you.

How To Block People On Facebook Profiles

Step 1: Find the Profile of the user you want to block. Once you are on their Profile page look to the right under the Cover image. You should see those 3 dots. Click on the dots and a menu will appear. On this, you will see Block at the bottom of the list. Click it and you will see the same confirmation window as you saw in step 8. Now click on the Confirm button and you’re done.

You now know three ways to block those users you do not want contact with anymore. Time to share this with all your Facebook family.

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