Facebook Posts 2022: How to Manage and Turn Off Comments

Sophie Webster, Tech Times 21 February 2022, 09:02 am

Facebook limits how and when you can prevent other users from commenting on your posts, but you can make changes if you wish to.

Disabling Facebook Comments

For your personal posts on your Facebook timeline, you need to set the visibility to Public in order to manage the comments for them, according to How to Geek.

Also, you won't be able to fully disable the comments on your posts, you can only limit the comments to your friends or friends of your friends.

However, in any Facebook group where you are the admin or the moderator, you can fully turn off the comments for any post that you want.

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Control the Comments for Personal Facebook Posts

You can change who can comment on your posts for both all your public posts and the select public posts. Here's how you can manage the options for both post types.

Manage the Comments for All Public Posts

In order to apply a single rule as to who can comment on your Facebook's public post, change the account-level option in your account.

Open a web browser on your Mac, Windows, Linux or Chromebook computer and log in to your Facebook account. You can use the app on your iPhone, Android phone, or iPad too, according to Mashable.

At the top-right corner of the site, click the down-arrow icon and choose Settings and Privacy. Next, select Settings. Under the General Account Settings page, choose Public Posts from the sidebar on the left.

You will see a Public Post Filters and Tools page, so just choose the Who Can Follow Me option, click the drop-down menu and select Public.

On the same Public Post Filters and Tools page, choose the Public Post Comments option. Under the expanded menu, click the drop-down menu and choose who can comment on your posts.

The available options are Public, which means anyone can comment on your posts, even those that don't follow you; Friends, which means only your friends can post comments and if you tag someone in your post, that person and their friends can comment on your posts; and Friends of Friends, which means your friends and their friends can comment too.

Once you are done choosing an option, Facebook will immediately save your changes.

Manage Comments for Individual Public Posts

In order to manage who can comment on a specific post, you need to access that post on Facebook. At the top-right corner of the post, choose the three dots. From the menu, choose "Who Can Comment on Your Post."

A window will open so you can choose three options. First there is Public, which allows anyone to comment on your post, according to MakeUseOf.

There is Friends, which allows your Facebook friends to comment on your post, and Profiles and Pages You Mention, which means if you mention a Facebook profile or page in your post, the profile or page can comment on your post.

That is all there is to managing the comment settings for your Facebook account. If there are certain friends you don't want commenting on your post, you may want to hide the post from them altogether.