How to Turn Off Comments on Facebook Post

Apr. 8, 2024

Social media comments can get overwhelmingly toxic, especially if your posts reach the wrong target audience. Now, while Instagram makes it very easy to “turn off” commenting, Facebook doesn’t. You can turn off comments made on your Facebook Group posts directly, but not so easily on your regular Facebook posts. For that, you will need to tweak your post comment settings a bit. So, without any further ado, here’s how to turn off comments on your Facebook posts the smart way!

Turn Off Facebook Comments on Your Public Posts

In order to turn off the comments on a specific Facebook post of yours, you will first need to unlock your account and make it public. That is if you havelocked your Facebook accountin the first place. Once you do, follow these steps:

Upon selecting this privacy setting for your Facebook post, only those profiles and pages that you specifically mention on your post will be able to comment. So, if you are not mentioning anyone in the first place, you have basically turned off commenting for such Facebook posts.

Besides, you coulddo the same thing to turn off commenting for your Facebook Page posts. However, do note thatdoing so for one post doesn’t change the settings for all your other posts. You will have to do this for every post, which is a bummer.

As we mentioned in the very beginning, you can easily turn off Facebook comments for your group posts. All you need to do is tap on the three-dot menu attached to the Facebook group post that you want to delete and selectTurn off commenting. That should instantly disable commenting on the particular post.

Now, if a specific comment by a Facebook friend or someone you don’t know annoys you, you can hide or delete it. Just visit your post, locate the comment, andlong-pressit if you are on the mobile app. Here, you will see the options to hide or delete the comment. Click on the desired option and that’s it.

On the web version, simply hover the comment you want to delete and click on thethree-dot menuthat appears beside it. Then, you will see the hide and delete comment options.

Now that you know all about turning off the Facebook comments on your posts, you will definitely be able to keep online trolls at bay. However, I do hope that Facebook simplifies this process as they did for turning off commenting on group posts. Moreover, it would also be amazing to have a central setting to turn off commenting for all Facebook posts. This will make things significantly more hassle-free.

With that being said, I sure do hope that this guide comes in handy for you! Let me know in the comments what other ways you use to moderate your Facebook account.

Sagnik is a tech aficionado who can never say “no” to dipping his toes into unknown waters of tech or reviewing the latest gadgets. He is also a hardcore gamer, having played everything from Snake Xenzia to Dead Space Remake.