HOW TO HIDE PHONE NUMBER ON FACEBOOK

I use to receive calls from unknown numbers and when I ask the person how did you get my number, he or she will say “I got from FACEBOOK”. This is so annoying at times. I am sure one of you must have experience this too which is annoying. Going via this experience, I use to blame FACEBOOK not knowing it was all my negligent to check my privacy settings. When I took time, and go via my privacy settings, I discover that it is very simple to put your contact on private or public mode on FACEBOOK. Again, I discover that once you are a friend with someone on FACEBOOK, he/she can check you profile and get your contact number easily.

FACEBOOK is one of the most used social media platform today in the word and per statistics, it has about 2.2bilion monthly active users as of January 2018, it was found on February 4, 2004 by MARK ZUCKERBERG with some of his fellow Harvard College students and roommates namely; EDUARDO SAVERIN, ANDREW MCCOLLUM, DUSTIN MOSTKOVITZ and CHRIS HUGHES. FACEBOOK like any other social media networks, is very important in that it create an arena where people meet new and old friends, promote business via paid and unpaid ads, lunching of projects and educating youths. This importance can only be achieved if it is not ignorantly used.

At least occasionally you must have received an unknown call from unknown numbers. If you are a FACEBOOK user and you are always receiving calls from unknown numbers, then you need to check your privacy settings on your FACEBOOK account because this maybe the source of unknown calls. Many people complain of receiving calls from unknown numbers and which is sometimes not okay but have never bother to check their privacy settings. I saw somewhere in a comment on FACEBOOK where one woman complained that the new FACEBOOK app “FACEBOOK LITE” is not good because it exposes peoples’ private numbers. This is not true because immediately one create a FACEBOOK accounts, there are options that will always allow you to either leave your number public or private and many other settings. If you have ever wonder how people get your contacts from FACEBOOK and how to hide it, then this article will give you how your number can be gotten from FACEBOOK and step by step on how to hide your numbers on FACEBOOK with good examples from screen short photos.

If you are friends with anybody one FACEBOOK and your contact is set public, know if your friend check your profile or click on the three dots top right on your profile, he/she is going to see your contact. On the Latest version of FACEBOOK lite will, if someone check on your profile and click on the three dots top right, a call button will appear and if he/she click on call, your number will appear on his or her phone. This is basically how people get their friends numbers on FACEBOOK if and only if in your privacy settings, your contact is set public. See the screen shorts below on how your contact can be gotten from FACEBOOK without your concern.

HOW TO HIDE PHONE NUMBER ON FACEBOOK

Follow the step by step guide below on how to set your phone number to private mode on FACEBOOK with screen short illustrations.

Ø Log into your FACEBOOK account, see screen short below for better understanding.

Ø Click on the three dots or horizontal lines at the top of your account as you are logged in, see screen short below.

Ø Click on settings. This will take you to privacy settings, see screen short below

Ø Click on privacy settings to edit your accounts. See screen short below

Ø Click on manage profile. A page will appear where you will see all your private

information that is editable, that is you can set either private or public. See screen short below.

Ø On the about page, you will find your contact there then click on a small icon that looks like a pen. See screen short below

Ø After you click on the icon that looks like a pen, another small icon will appear that looks like a lock. Click on it, see screen short below

Ø After clicking on the small lock, some options will appear which include: Public, Friends and more options, see screen short below.

Ø Click on more options, you will see only me then click on it. A white tick will appear showing that only you can see your contact, see screen short below.

Your contact is now private and only you can see it. You can equally follow these steps above to make your contact public.

Whether to put your contact private or public on FACEBOOK or other social networks, depends solely on you and your personnel reasons, some people may like theirs public while others want them private. I hope this article was helpful.

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