Restrict a friend on Facebook and mutual friends.
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AliJ
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Hello,
For some time now, I've been restricting one of my Facebook friends because she systematically criticizes my photos and posts (even though they are just simple pictures from walks, vacations, or even my civil partnership). I don't want to unfriend her because I see her too often, and she could cause issues with our mutual friends afterwards. However, since I restricted her from seeing my posts, our mutual friends no longer react to my publications. Since I know that there's an automatic function on Facebook that lets my friends see when I react to any post (even if they don’t know the person), I was wondering if restricting this friend also prevents our mutual friends from seeing my posts? So that if they were to react, this friend would not be able to see the posts I restricted her from.
I know that my friends don’t know when I restrict someone, let alone who it is. So it can't come from a possible discovery on their part of this restriction.
Thank you in advance for your answers.
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For some time now, I've been restricting one of my Facebook friends because she systematically criticizes my photos and posts (even though they are just simple pictures from walks, vacations, or even my civil partnership). I don't want to unfriend her because I see her too often, and she could cause issues with our mutual friends afterwards. However, since I restricted her from seeing my posts, our mutual friends no longer react to my publications. Since I know that there's an automatic function on Facebook that lets my friends see when I react to any post (even if they don’t know the person), I was wondering if restricting this friend also prevents our mutual friends from seeing my posts? So that if they were to react, this friend would not be able to see the posts I restricted her from.
I know that my friends don’t know when I restrict someone, let alone who it is. So it can't come from a possible discovery on their part of this restriction.
Thank you in advance for your answers.
Configuration: Android / Chrome 56.0.2924.87
3 réponses
Hello
"Does restricting this so-called friend prevent our mutual friends from seeing my posts as well?"
Absolutely no relation. What you publish is visible to everyone you allow and limits those you designate, nothing more.
The best approach is to add her to Restricted, so she will only see what is "Public," or a specific group, and limit your posts to "your friends" EXCEPT for that group.
Best regards
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"We swallow whole the lie that flatters us and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter to us."
"Does restricting this so-called friend prevent our mutual friends from seeing my posts as well?"
Absolutely no relation. What you publish is visible to everyone you allow and limits those you designate, nothing more.
The best approach is to add her to Restricted, so she will only see what is "Public," or a specific group, and limit your posts to "your friends" EXCEPT for that group.
Best regards
--
"We swallow whole the lie that flatters us and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter to us."
Absolutely no relation. What you publish is visible to everyone you allow and limits those you designate, nothing more.
Are you sure about that?...
Because if I have X in my friends... and I open my post to X and their friends (whom I don't have in mine)... if I deny X from seeing my post... theoretically their friends (who are not mine) can't see it either... since our only common denominator is X who sees nothing of what I publish...
right?
;)
- "and that I open my post to X and their friends"
- "if I forbid X from seeing my post"
Isn’t that slightly contradictory?
1) Either we open the post to X => X can see it AND not their friends (UNLESS a friend of C is also my friend)
2) Or we don’t open it (exclusion) to X => X sees nothing and their friends neither (UNLESS a friend of X is my friend)
3) Or we open it to X and their friends => X can see it and X's friends can see it
Unless I’m mistaken, there are only these 3 possible cases.
Since the author wants it to be open to X's friends BUT NOT to X herself...
If you open it to "friends and their friends EXCEPT X"... Why would X's friends see it since X doesn't see it herself?...
But from the message below, what I deduce is that the fact that she is part of the total group probably allows for her friends to access it anyway...
To recap for those who will read this, the request was:
- I do not want to remove X from my friends
- I do not want X to see my posts anymore
- We have mutual friends
Question:
Does limiting my posts (thus excluding X from my posts) have any impact on my friends and/or our mutual friends?
The answer is NO.
The rest was just details on how to manage the exclusion on FB, for example through groups.
That's all :-)