How to Prevent Others from Seeing Posts You Like on Facebook

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Last Updated: May 15, 2018

This wikiHow teaches you how to hide some of your likes on Facebook from Timeline, and prevent it from popping up in your friends' news feeds. This method only works for Pages you like, and your likes on your own posts.

Steps

1
Open Facebook.com.
- If you aren't automatically logged in, log in with your Facebook account. You will have to enter your email or phone number and your password.
2
Go to your Profile page. You can do this by clicking on your name on the left navigation menu on your Home page. Your name and a thumbnail of your profile picture will be at the top of the navigation menu on the left side of your screen.

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3
Click View Activity Log. This button will be in the lower-right corner of your cover photo.
4
Find the like you want to hide in your Activity Log. The list is reverse-chronologically ordered, so your most recent likes will be at the top.
5
Click the Edit button to the right of your like. This button looks like a pencil icon on the right side of your screen. Clicking on it will open up a small popup menu.
6
Select Hidden From Timeline from the menu. This will hide your like from Timeline, so it won't pop up in your friends' news feeds.

Warnings

When you like a photo, a status update, or a post shared by a friend of yours, your friend who originally made the post is in control of privacy settings. You cannot hide your likes from Timeline on somebody else's post; you can only unlike it.

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