Here’s a short post on getting your Facebook Likes back. We’ll show you how to sort out the different sections that appear when someone checks out your profile.
1. Head to your own Timeline and look for the words ‘Update Info’.
Click on Update Info.
2. Once you click Update Info, look over on the right for the icon of a pencil.
The word Edit appears when you hover over the icon. Click it.
3. Even if you don’t want to edit anything, click the icon and you’ll get this menu. Click ‘Edit Sections’ when you see it:
Click Edit Sections.
4. Up pops a list of all of the sections that you can choose to show or hide. Notice that three sections can’t be hidden: About, Photos and Friends are all permanent. You can, however, hide parts of these sections as we’ve told you before. You can hide your full Friend list, for instance, but you cannot hide any mutual friends that you might have with someone who sees your profile.
Pick the ones you want to show or hide.
5. Finally, don’t forget to click Save to make your changes take effect.
Click Save and you’re done.
That’s it. Your list will vary from ours, of course. The main sections will be the same but you won’t have Spotify, probably, but you might have ones that are not on our list.
It seems that Facebook changes their own rules every week. They probably don’t change every week but in the last few months, many of our previous posts on Facebook likes have been made obsolete. Here we go with our latest how-to on this topic. If you’re lost your ‘Likes’, we’ll get them back. If you want to hide them from everyone but yourself, we’ll show you how. Grab a coffee, open your own Facebook profile and let’s get started.
How to Hide (or un-Hide) Your Likes on Facebook
1. Everything you do is done from your Timeline so start there. You will notice that the various boxes (photos, friends,likes, etc.) have been replaced by the words Timeline, About, Friends, Photos and, finally, More. Clicking on More brings down a menu, as seen here:
No likes here!
2. We’ve hidden our Likes from this menu. How do we get them back? Click on the words Update Info:
Update Info is where we start.
3. On the right side of the page that comes up, click on the pen/pencil icon on the far right. When the menu pops down, choose Edit Sections:
Click Edit Sections to bring up a new menu, one we haven’t seen before.
4. Here’s the new menu:
Here’s where you choose which topics show up on your Timeline when a friend clicks the word ‘More’.
Simply decide which sections of your favorites you want to show to your friends. There are three sections that you can’t hide, About, Friends and Photos, but you can certainly hide parts of each ‘section’ listed on that list. What can’t you hide? You can’t hide your Mutual Friends from anyone. Bummer, huh? Yes, you can hide your Friend list but you can’t hide Mutual friends. Keep that in mind, folks.
5. Notice that this time we’ve selected ‘Likes’. Click Save and then go back to your Timeline and click the word More.
What’s this? The ‘Likes’ are back? Cool!
Guess what? Our Likes are shown in the drop-down list. Pat yourself on the back! You’ve completed your assignment. This has been a short and simple way to get the Likes ‘box’ back. You’re right, it’s not a box but people still use that term to describe it so we will too. Obviously, perform the opposite steps if you want to hide your list of likes. What do you see when you actually click on the word ‘Likes’ on that menu? Here’s what we see:
Here they are, broken down into groups. These groups may vary from person to person.
Now you’re asking, “Who can see what?” right? Time to hover. Move your mouse (cursor) to the right of the words under each ‘Like’. You’ll see an icon that reflects your privacy settings for each of the ‘Likes’ shown.
Click on the icon if you want to change the privacy settings for each ‘Like’.
OK folks, that’s it for today. We’ve got the Likes box back or we’ve hidden it, it’s up to you. Next, let’s take a look at some privacy settings in your Likes area.
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