Turn off close Facebook friend notification

Question

Many people added me as a close friend and they receive updates about my activities on Facebook. I do not want to show them via notification what I post or what I like.

How to turn these notifications off?

Answer 1

You cannot stop them, it is their profile not yours.

Your only options are:

• Post less
• Message them and tell them to remove you from their close friends
• Change your privacy options on your posts to me or a restricted friend subset

Answer 2

You can tell your friends how to turn off close friend notifications by doing the following:

• Click Close Friends in the left navigation of Facebook's home page
  • You'll see the below with Close Friends highlighted

• In the upper right (below the Facebook header) you'll see the following with a checkmark:

• Click Notifications

• Select Off
  • You'll see a strike through icon now