I have recently started to increase the time spend on Facebook, not because I’m really fond of social networking sites but because I like to get a deeper understanding of it. I ran into several issues recently of which one was to find out how to block people from accessing your profile at all.
Facebook distinguishes between friends which are Facebook users that you personally have invited or accepted as friends and people which are all Facebook users.
It is possible to block people in Facebook. People in this regard can be friends or users that you do not have any relationship on the social networking site with.
This can be helpful if you get harassed or flooded with spam messages by someone.
Blocking users on Facebook
Open the Facebook website and log into your account. Now click on Account and then Privacy Settings in the upper right corner of the screen. You can access most privacy related settings and options on this page including the Block List at the end of the listing.
Click on the Block List entry to open a search form where you can search for a person or email address. It helps if you know those information. Facebook will automatically displays a list of matches in a popup window with friends matching the search phrase listed on top of the listing.
People you have blocked will not be able to interact with you on Facebook. Any Facebook friendships or relationships you currently have with that person will be broken. Note that blocking someone may not prevent all communications and interactions in applications, and does not extend to elsewhere on the Internet.
A click on the Block button next to the users will block that user from being able to access your profile at all. Friendships will be revoked as well if the user is a friend of yours on Facebook.
Blocking users is on the other hand not an ideal solution. The blocked user could create a new Facebook account and access the profile information again.
This leads directly to the privacy settings of the public Facebook profile. You should visit the page to make sure that only information that you are comfortable with is shown on the public page. You can edit those settings in the Personal Information and Posts of the Privacy Settings.
You should also take a look at the contact information settings to control how and by whom you can be contacted.
This concludes the tutorial on how to block people on Facebook. If you have additional tips let us know in the comments.
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