Facebook notifies all your friends of your birthday by default. Beyond the perceived insincerity, there are good reasons to hide your birthday on Facebook altogether. Your birth date is a piece of data that identity thieves will readily look for, and maybe you just don’t want to remind people of your age.
Whatever the reason, stopping the notifications to your friend’s feeds is a simple process. In this article, you’ll learn how to do it on the mobile app and desktop browsers. Furthermore, if you’re fed up with receiving notifications about other people’s birthdays, you can remove that feature.
The process won’t be too different whether you’re working on a desktop or mobile device. We’re starting with the desktop process, but feel free to use whichever you have on hand.
The first thing you should do is log in to your Facebook account. You’ll land on your news feed. From there, follow these steps:
Once done, click Save.By following these steps, you’ve effectively made your birthday invisible to Facebook users other than yourself. No one will receive notifications about your birthday, nor will anyone be able to see it. Now, on to the mobile version.
You will start the process this time by launching the Facebook app on your phone. The app isn’t required, and you can also use the steps outlined above in a mobile browser. Once the app is launched, follow these steps:
As you can see, the two procedures are similar, and neither should take more than a minute to complete. Now, if you don’t want to receive notifications about other people’s birthdays, you can also turn that off.
Sometimes a birthday notification creates a sense of obligation to respond, and that can get irritating. To stop receiving notifications for birthdays, access your Facebook settings page.
You can do this by clicking the down arrow on the top bar of your Facebook page or by accessing the Settings page directly.
Click on Notifications in the left sidebar menu and scroll down to Birthdays. Expand the Birthdays section and toggle off notifications. You will no longer receive any notifications about birthdays from Facebook.
Here are the answers to more of your questions about Facebook’s Birthday notifications.
Yes! If you’re worried about others knowing your birthday, but you still like the birthday wishes, you can hide your birth year.
Hiding your birth year will protect your private information. But, your friends will still receive a birthday reminder every year.
If you want to hide your birthday from some Facebook users you can click the Custom option rather than the Only Me option shown above. The custom option allows you to hide your birthday from some individuals.
Turning off or hiding your birthday on Facebook serves many purposes. The process is relatively simple and straightforward. All you have to do is access your About page and change the privacy settings to prohibit access to anyone but yourself.
You can do it from any browser or the Facebook app. While you’re at it, you can quickly turn off notifications about other people’s birthdays if you’re so inclined.
Why do you want your birthday to be hidden from friends? Do you think it’s a safety issue if people easily access your birth date information? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
By Idowu Omisola
Don't want people wishing you happy birthday on Facebook? Here's how you can hide the big day from your friends.
Even if you've kept your birth date confidential in real life, people can still view your Facebook profile to find out more about you.
To keep your private life actually private, you might want to hide your birthday from the public on Facebook as well.
So, in this article, we'll show you how to hide your birthday on Facebook and keep it private from prying eyes.
Hiding your date of birth on Facebook is easy and only involves a few steps.
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Once you log into your Facebook account, follow these steps to hide your birth date on Facebook:
Related: How to Make an Anonymous Facebook Profile
That's it. Your birthday is now private. Even when someone visits your Facebook profile, they still won't be able to see your date of birth.
Changing your birthday's privacy settings isn't difficult. And if you only want to share your date of birth with certain people, you can change the categories to which this information is visible. Likewise, you can exempt certain people from seeing your birthday as well.
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There are many reasons why you need to delete posts on your profile, and there are several ways to do it.
Facebook provides the ability to delete posts from your page using any PC or mobile device.
The removal process is quite simple:
Important! When you delete a post from your page, its content will also disappear for those who reposted this post.
It is possible to delete a publication from your page using any mobile device, regardless of the operating system.
Algorithm of actions. Log in to your profile through the Facebook mobile app and log in. Click on your avatar with the left mouse button.
Your page will open - scroll down a little until the posts appear.
Find the post you want to delete and click on the button with three horizontal dots in the right corner.
A window will open with a list of different functions - you need to select and click on "Move to Trash".
Next, you need to confirm your actions.
If you are satisfied that the publication is not completely deleted and will be in the trash for 30 days, leave it as it is, entrusting the site with automatic deletion.
If such a delay does not suit you, you can delete the publication immediately through the "Action Log".
Here you need to return to the news feed section and click on the button with three horizontal lines, which is located in the upper right corner of the screen.
Next, go to Settings and Privacy.
And click on the appeared line "Settings".
Another window will appear - select "Action Log".
Click on it and select the post you want to delete from the "Your publications" section.
Click on it, select a post and delete it.
Note! In this way, you can delete the publication immediately and without waiting, but this requires moving the post to the trash, after which it can be deleted through the action log.
There are two ways to remove all posts from the feed:
Both methods are available for both PC and phone - they are completely identical, a slight difference is noticeable only in the interface. For example, you might consider deleting on a mobile device.
Deleting records:
In the menu that opens, click on the line "Your publications".
Now you need to click on the post filter icon.
And then filter your old posts. For example, it is easiest to do this by date.
After that, you need to delete each post in the standard way.
Important! You can't delete all old records at the same time - you can only delete them individually.
Closing access to publications is not a deletion in the full sense of the word.
But this method provides an opportunity to close old posts from all people who view your page. Accordingly, publications will disappear from the news feed of friends or ordinary users.
How to close old posts:
In the window that opens, click on "Change Privacy".
Next, you need to put a label that closes old publications from everyone except the account owner.
The icon with the image of the globe in such publications will disappear - a “lock” should appear in its place.
It is not possible to delete all posts in your profile at the same time.
You can use the filters in the "Action Log" section, sort the publications for deletion and remove each manually.
If the post is in the trash, you have 30 days to restore it. To do this, go to "Settings" and to "Your publications". After that, select the desired section and restore the post. The post will disappear after 30 days. If the post is not in the trash, but deleted immediately through the "Action Log" - it is impossible to restore it.
Video review:
The section "Publication management" will immediately help you delete all posts on Facebook. The user will be able to hide or permanently get rid of unnecessary posts.
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on Facebook for a long time there was no function: “Delete post”, instead there was “Hide from the general chronicle”. Recordings were stored in the Archive, from where the user could re-publish them. In one of the updates, the option appeared in the browser and mobile versions.
How to remove one post:
In order not to lose a previously created entry, the user can hide it. A completely deleted publication cannot be restored, as well as returned added photos or videos.
The browser version has a section: "Manage publications", so it's easier to delete a post from a computer than in a mobile one. The user can select which entries to remove or hide from the Timeline. Separate options: change the posting date, edit the audience and the post itself.
How to delete multiple entries:
Publications are placed by date and grouped by months and weeks.
To delete everything at once, the user needs to go to the button: "Filters":
There are also other options for filters: "Privacy" and "Tagged Publication".
From the mobile version, in order to delete a post on Facebook, you must also go to management.
In contrast to the browser view, the function is hidden in the application and is located in the "Personal profile" category:
There are also filters with the same settings. The profile owner can delete individual posts one by one by going to them using the "Feed".
Another way to get away from others is to set your privacy settings. Change access to records:
The profile owner can restrict access to basic page information.
