{"id":4062,"date":"2021-03-31T11:03:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T11:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1344968"},"modified":"2021-03-31T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T11:03:57","slug":"how-to-control-who-can-comment-on-your-facebook-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=4062","title":{"rendered":"How to control who can comment on your Facebook posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Facebook, you can control if you want to make a post public, visible to friends, just yourself, or a specific set of friends.<span>A nd now, a new feature lets you control who can comment on your public post \u2014 great for when you only want responses from friends and family, or if you just need to put something out there and don\u2019t care to hear back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how you can change the comment control on your public post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the Facebook app on your phone.<\/li>\n<li>Head to the post where you want to control comments.<\/li>\n<li>Tap on the three-dot menu on the top-right of the post and select the \u201cWho can comment on your post?\u201d option.<\/li>\n<li>Now, you can select Public, Friends, or Profile and Pages that you mentioned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-featured_img wp-image-1344971 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/03\/NRP-Comment_Moderation_Launch_inline1-796x730.jpeg\" alt width=\"796\" height=\"730\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/03\/NRP-Comment_Moderation_Launch_inline1-796x730.jpeg 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/03\/NRP-Comment_Moderation_Launch_inline1-229x210.jpeg 229w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/03\/NRP-Comment_Moderation_Launch_inline1-294x270.jpeg 294w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/03\/NRP-Comment_Moderation_Launch_inline1-147x135.jpeg 147w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/03\/NRP-Comment_Moderation_Launch_inline1.jpeg 890w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/plugged\/2021\/03\/31\/how-to-control-who-can-comment-on-your-facebook-posts\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fplugged%2F2021%2F03%2F31%2Fhow-to-control-who-can-comment-on-your-facebook-posts%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Controlling comments on your public Facebook post\" data-title=\"Share Controlling comments on your public Facebook post on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Controlling comments on your public Facebook post on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>Controlling comments on your public Facebook post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once you set this up, only the selected people or pages will be able to comment on your post.<\/p>\n<p>This will ensure that strangers can\u2019t comment on your certain post.&nbsp;<span>Quite often, when a post goes viral, it can attract unwanted responses; the new comment control tool will restrict that to some extent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The comment control feature is not new to social networks, and it\u2019s surprising that it took Facebook a while to roll it out on the blue app. Instagram has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/689642\/how-to-control-who-can-comment-on-your-instagram-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">multiple granular controls for commenting on posts and Stories<\/a>. Last year, Twitter also rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/basics\/2020\/08\/12\/use-twitter-new-tool-limit-replies-your-tweets\/\">a tool to limit replies<\/a> to a specific tweet; you can check our guide on it <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/basics\/2020\/08\/12\/use-twitter-new-tool-limit-replies-your-tweets\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Did you know we have a newsletter all about consumer tech? It\u2019s called Plugged In \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/share.hsforms.com\/1tNyJLC_3RjuVWih9ygK_6A47gef\">and you can subscribe to it right here<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published March 31, 2021 \u2014 11:03 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/plugged\/2021\/03\/31\/how-to-control-who-can-comment-on-your-facebook-posts\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Facebook, you can control if you want to make a post public, visible to friends, just yourself, or a specific set of friends.A nd now, a new feature lets you control&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}