Few days back i wrote about how Facebook changed privacy settings on its own. There was so much fury by the users over the new public availability of friends list to the public view with new settings and no way you can change it. It seems that facebook backtracks once again as it happened last year too.
In a blog post on Facebook official blog, it is announced that now you can change your friends list visibility as per your needs and you can hide it from public access by changing some settings. Here’s what the updateon the blog says :
In response to your feedback, we’ve improved the Friend List visibility option described below. Now when you uncheck the “Show my friends on my profile” option in the Friends box on your profile, your Friend List won’t appear on your profile regardless of whether people are viewing it while logged into Facebook or logged out. This information is still publicly available, however, and can be accessed by applications. Thanks again for your comments and suggestions.
Here’s how you can hide your Facebook friends list from public view.
1. Click on Profile on the blue bar a the top of the screen: 
2. Scroll down to the beginning of your Friends list and click on the pencil to the right of the word Friends:
3. Uncheck the box that says “Show Friend list to everyone”: 
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Nice tip.
Really sounds …Thanks for sharing.
But I like showing off my friends!
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That depends on person to person. Note that i am talking about showing your friends list to public & search engines which means everyone and not just your friends.
I’m still curious about the data security/privacy on Facebook. Can it be trusted?
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Takk!!
saya kepingin tau gimana cara nya hide friends list dr temen yg ada
contoh: anton ada di friends list saya tp saya ga tau anton tau temen2 saya sapa aja yg ada di list?
tolong jawaban nya thanks alot :)GBU
Sorry, i couldn’t understand? I tried with google translate too but cant :(
Tak for hints men hvordan skjuler man sin venne liste helt så ingen kan se den, eller ikke egne venner?
Translated :
Thanks for hints but how hides Mon their friend list completely so that no one can see it, not even their own friends?
eller = heller
вот что нужно знать: в моём списке друзей есть люди с которыми я не могу не общаться и в тоже время которые друг друга мягко говоря недолюбливают. Закатывают ссоры и просят удалить друг друга из моего списка. Как сделать так, чтобы даже друзья не видели, кто в моем списке друзей? Таким образом скрыть список не только от общественности, но и от своих друзей?
Translated from Russian :
that’s what you need to know: in my friends list are people with whom I can not communicate and at the same time to each other to put it mildly disliked. Roll their quarrel and asked to remove each other from my list. How to make friends do not even have seen someone on my friends list? So hide the list not only from public but also from their friends?
меня тоже интересует вопрос Ансем!!!!!!!!!
Translated : I also wanted to know how Ansem !!!!!!!!!
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How do I hide my pictures and infor from public view thru with search engines