What Happens When You Block Someone on Facebook

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What Happens to Profile and Interactions Like Posts, Comments, Likes, Tags, Stories, Etc.

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What Happens In Interactions With Respect to Mutual Friends

Your profiles remain hidden from each other. That is the blocked user cannot see you through your mutual friends. Similarly, you won’t be able to see each other’s comments on a mutual friend’s post.

If your mutual friend posts a photo of you or the person that you have blocked (with or without tag), both of you will be able to see the picture since the content belongs to the mutual friend. Now if a mutual friend shares a post from your wall on his/her wall, in that case, the blocked person won’t see the content of the shared post. But if the blocked person tags the mutual friend in a photo, you might see that post on your friend’s timeline.

Tip:Learn how to seewho is stalking your Facebook profile.

Can a Blocked Person Search for Your Profile (On Facebook and Google)

Note: Facebook profiles are available through Google search results unless you have changed the privacy settings and hidden your profile from search results.

What Happens to Messages in Facebook Messenger

As expected, you can no longer message or call the person whom you have blocked on Facebook and neither can the person. However, blocking won’t automatically delete the old messages on Messenger. They will stay in your inbox until you hit the Delete button.

However, if you block them on Messenger only, you can still view their Facebook profile and interact with them on Facebook. That’s becauseblocking on Messenger is different from blocking on Facebook.

Tip:Know what happens when yourestrict someone on Facebook Messenger.

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FAQs on Blocking Someone on Facebook

No. You can unblock a person anytime. However, you cannot block a person again for 48 hours after unblocking them.

Go to Facebook Settings and click on Blocking present under the Audience and Visibility section. You will see all the users that you have blocked. On PC, you might need to click on the Edit button next to the Block Users option first before you can see all the people that are blocked. Then, click on the Unblock button next to their profile.

When you unblock, you will be able to view the person’s public profile, newcomments, likes, tags, and other things. You will even see the old comments, posts, tags, etc. that were hidden when you blocked the person.You can continue interacting again. However, since blocking unfriends them, unblocking them will not restore the connection. You will have to send them a friend request.

It means that the person has deactivated their Facebook profile. Since Messenger can be used without a Facebook profile too, they still appear in Messenger. Another reason could be they have blocked you on Facebook. You can only see the message thread on Messenger and not actually chat with them.

No. Facebook doesn’t send a notification when you block someone.

Facebook doesn’t show any message label indicating that someone has blocked you. However, one can figure it out by opening the profile link without logging in or asking someone to check the FB profile via their account. If the profile opens, then the user has blocked you. Learn how toknow if someone blocked you on Messenger.

Blocking someone on Facebook disconnects them from you, in a virtual way. I would suggest eitherunfriending the personorrestricting your profileto them before taking the harsh step of the block.

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Last updated on 27 July, 2024

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