How to Block Someone on Facebook

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No matter what your reason is for wanting to know how to block someone on Facebook, the great thing is…you can. When Blocking someone on Facebook they will no longer be able to:

• See things you post on your timeline
• Tag you
• Invite you to events or groups
• Start a conversation with you
• Add you as a friend

This will automatically unfriend that person also if you are friends with them. Something else to note about Blocking is that you can block anyone on Facebook whether you are friends with them or not.In the video tutorial below you’ll learn:

1. How to Block Someone
2. How to Un-Block Someone
3. What happens when you Block Someone
4. How to Tell if You’ve Been Blocked

Watch the Video Tutorial here:

Written Tutorial

Blocking someone on Facebook – (NOTE: When you block someone on Facebook you are also unfriending them)

There are a couple ways you can block someone on Facebook but the easiest, quickest way is by doing it from your Newsfeed.

When you see the friends name pop up on your Newsfeed you can simply:

1. Mouse over their name
2. Choose the 3 dots at the bottom right (next to Message)
3. Choose Block

Once you choose to Block that person you’ll get this next pop up explaining that your friend will no longer be able to see your posts on your timeline, tag you, invite you to events or groups, message you, or even add you as a friend.

When you confirm this you’ll get yet another popup just explaining that if this friend were to create another profile, that profile would not be blocked and could still contact you from the new profile.

UnBlocking Someone on Facebook – In order to Unblock someone you’ve blocked on Facebook, you’ll have to head to your Blocking Settings and click on the Unblock button. To get to those Setting:

1. Click on your profile picture at the top right of your account.
2. Choose Settings & Privacy
3. Choose Settings
4. Over to the left under Audience and visibility choose Blocking
5. Choose Edit beside Block Users
6. Choose See your blocked list
7. Choose Unblock next to the name of the friend you want to unblock
8. Confirm you want to unblock them and you’re done

Don’t forget that if you want to be friends again on Facebook you’ll have to send them a friend request.

What happens when you Block Someone – First of all when you block someone they are not notified that you blocked them so you don’t have to worry about that. They should not be able to even find your profile page when they use the Search bar on Facebook. It’s like you don’t even exist.

However, if you were friends with that person and had commented on some of their posts, your name next to that comment will not link to your account.

Likewise, if you have mutual friends and you have commented on a mutual friends post, the blocked person will still see your comment but not be able to click on your name to go to your profile.

3 Sure Signs that you’ve been blocked –

1. As discussed above, you would see that person’s name but not be able to click on it to go to their profile. That’s the first sign.
2. The second sign would be if you searched for that person’s name in the search bar and couldn’t find it.
3. You did find their profile and when you tried to go to it you were given the following sign…

Be Blessed,
Audrey