How to Stop Facebook from Suggesting Me to Others

How to Prevent Facebook from Suggesting Your Account to Others

While Facebook has no built-in option to remove your profile from the People you may know section, there are workarounds. We’ll need to tweak some Facebook privacy settings to manipulate how Facebook picks suggestions for people and hide your Facebook profile from suggestions.

Method 1. Decide How People Can Find You on Mobile App

Open the Facebook app and tap the three-line icon > scroll down to Settings & privacy → Settings → select ‘How people can find and contact you’ from under Audience and visibility.

Here change the following settings,

• ‘Who can send you friend requests?’ – Change it to Friends of friends.
• ‘Who can see your friend list?’ – Change it to any other option except for public.
• Toggle off ‘Allow search engines outside Facebook to link to your profile’.

On Facebook Web

Open the Facebook website and log in > click your profile picture > select Settings & privacy > Settings.

Next, select Privacy from the left sidebar > under the ‘How people find and contact you’ section. Here edit the following settings,

• ‘Who can send you friend requests?’ to Friends of friends.
• ‘Who can see your friend list?’ to any other option, except for public.
• Disable ‘Do you want search engines outside of Facebook to link your profile?’.

Although this might affect some of your experiences on Facebook, the good news is that doing so should keep you from appearing under “People you may know.”

And just to be sure, there are a few more privacy settings you can change; skip to the next section.

Tip: If you don’t want your friends from different groups mingling with each other, stopping other people from seeing your friend list might help.

Method 2. Change Privacy Settings to Hide Your Facebook Profile From Suggestions

On Mobile App

Tap the three-line icon > scroll down to Settings & privacy > Settings > select ‘Followers and public content’ from under Audience and visibility. Here, tap ‘Who can see the people, Pages, and list you follow’ and change it to Only me or Friends.

On Facebook Web

Log in to your Facebook account > click your profile picture > select Settings & privacy > Settings → select Privacy from the left sidebar. Here, click Edit next to ‘Who can see the people, Pages, and list you follow’ and select Only me or Friends.

Tip: Some experts suggest that disabling location services for Facebook also helps stop your profile from showing up in suggested friends on Facebook. Although it can affect other features like location tagging, you can try it if you wish.