I’ve become more of a fan of Facebook over recent months (see my profile). They have made a number of improvements that I really like, and the number of people joining the service seems to just increase more and more over time. I’m really amazed at home many people you can find on it. I think they are well on their way to being the de facto White Pages of the Internet.
With that said, I don’t like the Wall feature of Facebook at all. For whatever reason, I’m just not real hip on anybody coming to my profile and just typing away. I’ve turned my wall off for a long time, and enough people have commented to me “Hey, you don’t have a wall! How did you do that?” that I thought I would share how to remove your wall.
Now, to be clear, we are not removing the wall per se. Facebook will not allow you to remove the Wall application. Instead, we are going to adjust privacy settings to hide the wall entirely. First, go to your privacy settings.
Now click on your profile.
In this screen, scroll down a ways and you will find the “Wall Posts” section. Simply change your settings to look like this. Uncheck the “Friends may post to my Wall” box and change the privacy option.
You could set this so that only you can write on your wall if you want. There are a couple of different options. I have it set like above which effectively removes the wall.
[Jan. 8, 2009: I've gotten some questions from people saying this doesn't work. I think the challenge is catching the result. I'm adding this section to help illustrate what this does.]
Result
Now that you have made this change you probably want to check to make sure it worked. This is a little hard on Facebook since it’s not terribly easy for you to see your profile as someone else. Facebook does have a feature that allows you to test this out, in your Profile Privacy settings, where you changed your wall privacy options, you can type the name of a friend and see your profile as they would see it. This works great for testing, particularly if you are using Facebook groups to assign privacy levels differently for various people.
You may be confused that even after these changes your profile will still have a tab called “Wall”. That is impossible to remove, per my earlier comment that we cannot really remove the Wall. It’s integral to the functioning of Facebook. All we did was remove the ability for people to write stuff on it.
Before these changes this is how a friend would see your wall.
Note the option to Write on the wall. After making these changes a friend sees your wall like this.
The option of writing on your wall is gone now.
Much has changed since this article I take it. I used the suggestions above in the article with no success. However, I tried the following and I was able to HIDE my wall COMPLETELY from all of of my friends.
Account -> Privacy Settings -> Profile Information
1. Posts by Me: In drop down box select “Custom”. Under “Make this visible to” select “only me” from the drop down box.
2. Allow friends to post on my Wall: Uncheck the box, this will automatically remove some options (you will see it take place)
3. Comments on Posts: In drop down box select “Custom”. Under “Make this visible to” select “only me” from the drop down box
4. Click “Preview my profile”. Test it out with a few of your friends names.
I have found that only this combination will totally HIDE your wall. If you leave out any of the above it will not work.
Until FB changes again…. Good Luck
You’re right I had to fling around with the settings and did exactly like you mentioned above and my WALL was finally gone!
This worked for me, too! Thank you so much!
Is it possible to delete a single post from my wall but leave the rest?
Thanks. This is cool. If I can only get my wife to do it and remove messaging, maybe we’ll save a marriage here.
Probably not.
Amen Brother…… ;o)
Yes, you can delete a single post from your wall but leave the rest. Just move your mouse right of the post– the word “remove” will appear, and become a button for you to click. If you click that button, only that post will be deleted.
Thanks for that, I was fiddling around with my settings for ages, no joy, so I googled for an answer……
Happy Days !
Yes just put remove in the thingy next to wht u want to remove ull see it if u just pass through the post :]
Alright I got a question,
When you go to someones page, and you look at there wall/ posts, you scroll down to the bottom it says ( Older Posts v)
When I click it, it says ( name- has no more posts)
I want this but cant seem to find the setting!!!
Please help me, add me on facebook cuz i probably will forget this site!!!
Kelly Deter
or
kellydeter@hotmail.com, = click accept=easyer way to add.
Please help me i’v been asking around for AGES !
THANK YOU!
hi my question is i cant see the wall of one of my friends and we cant figure out why her other friends can just me i can see her info photos boxes music just cant see her wall at all she does want me to see it so can someone help please !!!!!!!!!!!!
I have the option of hiding my wall from a list of friends in my privacy settings.
My birthday is tomorrow so I am now getting many messages from my friends saying that I have no box on my wall for them to post comments in. I went to my privacy settings and checked the box that allows them to post on my wall but they still can’t post on my wall.
hi i dont want to read my wall at all does anyone know how to rid yourself of this please?
is there a way to delete all wall posts at once? not simply just hide it
I want to know this too- it goes too far back and I want to just start it over without deleting back 5 years…
THAANKS! (: it worked GREAT!
thank u v.v.v.v.v. much
my facebook does not have the same menu layout. How would I do it on the new facebook?
This hides your wall posts, but they are still there and not deleted. If you change your profile security, they all come back. Do not thank the poster of this message as it is incorrect.
FB changed its layout again. So here’s the updated tutorial as of Aug 19 2010.
Go to Account -> Privacy Settings.
1. Under sharing on facebook, click Custom.
2. Click “customize settings”
Then follow the steps previously written by someone important:
1. Posts by Me: In drop down box select “Custom”. Under “Make this visible to” select “only me” from the drop down box.
2. Allow friends to post on my Wall: Uncheck the box, this will automatically remove some options (you will see it take place)
3. Comments on Posts: In drop down box select “Custom”. Under “Make this visible to” select “only me” from the drop down box
4. Click “Preview my profile”. Test it out with a few of your friends names.
Good luck!
My friend’s wall is available for us to write on, but the minute you “send” the message it magically disappears – not too sure what her settings are at but whatever….. The wall is what I find makes it “different” – if you’re only going to use “private messages” all the time, you might as well use Msn and hotmail!