When you sign up to Facebook, you are required to enter your birth date. Not only does this allow Facebook to create an account for you and tailor content according to your demographic and generational group, but it also enables friends to celebrate with you through the platform.
The ‘Birthdays’ feature on Facebook is a nice way to ensure that friends never forget your birthday and that you never forget theirs. But sometimes, having that information available and accessible on your Facebook profile can lead to celebratory messages that you don’t want.
Which is where this article comes in. In it, we answer the question of whether you can remove your birthday from Facebook.
Can You Remove Your Birthday?
No, you cannot remove your birthday from the backend of Facebook as this forms an integral part of the platforms knowledge about you.
However, you can change the visibility settings of your birthday, so that only a limited audience can see this information.
As a user, you can choose between your birthday being public visible to anyone who visits your profile, visible only to friends of friends, locked to your friends only, or hidden from everyone except you.
Here’s how to change the visibility of your birthday – and the few steps you need to take to hide it from your profile completely.
5 Steps to Hide Your Birthday From Facebook
- Click on the menu button in the bottom right hand corner of the screen
- Select your name at the top of the menu, to navigate to your profile
- Under the ‘Details’ section at the top of your profile feed, select ‘See Your About Info’
- Under the ‘Basic Info’ heading, you will see your gender and your birthday listed. Select ‘Edit’ to adjust the settings
- Next to the date and then the year of your birth, click on the drop down to view the different audience types and to assign the right level of visibility according to your preferences
To hide your birthday completely, change the visibility of both the date and year to ‘Only Me’.
This will still allow Facebook to track your age and use it to tailor the content you see, but it will not let other users know when your birthday is. It’s also worth noting that any apps which you have approved via Facebook and which use your Facebook data may still have visibility of your birthday and other personal information.
And there you have it! A few simple steps to hide your birthday on Facebook and stop people from sending you unwanted wishes on an annual basis.
