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Hiding the Facebook comment will keep it hidden from everyone except that person and their friends. They won't know that the comment is hidden, so you can avoid potential fallout. Deleting the Facebook comment will erase it; no one will be able to see it.

Hiding the Facebook comment will keep it hidden from everyone except that person and their friends. They won't know that the comment is hidden, so you can avoid potential fallout.

The comment's text should fade or appear grayed out. You will notice the Unhide option below it which can be useful if you change your mind later. The same steps will also work on smartphone apps.

By hiding (and not permanently deleting) comments on Facebook, such as customer complaints, brands can keep their ads relatively free of comments that may damage user perceptions while also responding to upset users at the same time.

At the top of the comment section, click Most Relevant, then select Hidden by You. Go to the comment you want to unhide, then follow one of these options: Below the comment, click Unhide. Hover over , then click Unhide comment.

Does hiding comments notify the commenter? No, Facebook does not notify the commenter whose comment you hid away. However, the user can check it from another account and discover that their comment has been hidden. Hiding comments is the best solution only to hateful speech, spam, and trolls.

Hiding the Facebook comment will keep it hidden from everyone except that person and their friends. They won't know that the comment is hidden, so you can avoid potential fallout. Deleting the Facebook comment will erase it; no one will be able to see it.

Comments that have been hidden will be grayed out a bit, so it's easy to see they were hidden. As mentioned before, hidden comments will still be visible to you, the person who wrote it and their friends. For everyone else these comments will be invisible.

Comments and replies that are hidden will remain visible to the sender and their friends on Facebook natively.

When you hide a comment on your post/update, it will still be visible to the person who posted it and all his/her friends. The commenter and his/her friends can continue the discussion also. Only the folks on commenter's friend list can view or interact with that comment. No one else can.