
Extricate yourself from other people’s Facebook posts If you want a bit more control, just click 'Create List' and start adding friends to a new custom list. The Restricted list is for people you really don’t want to share everything with – like your boss – and these people will only see your public content and anything they’re tagged in. When creating a post, you can choose to share with 'Friends except acquaintances' to exclude them. The Acquaintances list is for people you only share with occasionally, perhaps like your colleagues.

Each starts empty, allowing you to add people as needed. You’ll see three lists: Close friends, Acquaintances and Restricted. From your home page, click 'Friend lists' in the Explore section on the left-hand side (it may be hidden under 'See more…'). Helpfully, Facebook creates a few lists for you. This also protects your privacy by not oversharing with people who are not the intended audience. While you could select individual friends one by one, it’s much easier to create a list and share directly with those people. Sometimes, you just want to share something with a specific group of friends. It’s buried pretty deep, but it’s the option to go for if you want the most control. This gives you the most control over your post, allowing you to include certain people and lists, exclude others, and choose whether friends of tagged people can see it too. At the bottom of this list of options is a 'See all' button click this and you can set custom rules for your post. If you click 'More…' you get options to share the post with a handful of specific friends, or to only allow yourself to see it.

Three options are displayed by default: 'Public', 'Friends' and 'Friends except…', the latter of which allows you to exclude certain friends from seeing your post. Each has a dropdown menu on the right allowing you to choose who will see the post. Underneath the options for tagging friends, attaching photos and setting an activity, there are two toggles: News Feed and Your story. When you make a post on Facebook, you can choose who should be able to see it.
