How to Find Out Who Blocked You on Facebook

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This is an article that shows you how to determine who blocked you on Facebook or removed you from your friends list. If you can’t find someone’s profile, they may have blocked you or disabled their account. However, there is no better way to find out the truth than by asking the person directly.

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Use Facebook’s search engine

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Open Facebook. You can tap the Facebook icon with a white “f” on a blue background (when using a phone) or go to https://www.facebook.com/ (when using a computer). You’ll see the News Feed page if you’re signed in.

If you are not logged in, you will enter your Facebook registered email address and password to continue.

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Select the search bar. Tap or click the white box that says “Search” at the top of the page.

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Enter the name of the person you are looking for. Type the name of the person you think has blocked you, then select See results for [name] (on a phone) or press ↵ Enter (on a computer).

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Select the People filter at the top of the page.

Sometimes the person who blocked you or disabled their account will have information show up in the All filter of the search results, but won’t show up in the People filter.

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Find the person’s profile. If you see their profile in the People filter of the search results, their account is still active, but they have unfriended you.

If you don’t see their profile, they’ve probably deleted their account or blocked you from seeing their information. However, it is possible that they have changed their privacy settings so that you cannot find them on Facebook.
If you see their account, you should try tapping or clicking to see. You’ll see that their profile page no longer shows as much information as it used to if it hasn’t been blocked.

Use a list of mutual friends

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Open Facebook. You can tap the Facebook icon with a white “f” on a blue background (when using a phone) or go to https://www.facebook.com/ (when using a computer). You’ll see the News Feed page if you’re signed in.

If you are not logged in, you will enter your Facebook registered email address and password to continue.

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Go to a friend’s profile. That person must also be friends with the person you think blocked you. Go to that friend’s profile in the following way:

Select Search Engine .
Enter the friend’s name.
Select their name from the list shown below.
Choose their profile picture,

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Select Friends . Select this below the photo boxes near the top of their profile (mobile version) or directly below their cover photo (desktop version).

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Select the search bar. Tap or click the “Search Friends” bar at the top of the screen (on a phone) or the upper-right corner of the Friends page (on a computer).

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Enter the name of the person you are looking for. Type in the name of the person you think has blocked you. After a while, the friends list will refresh and show the results.

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Find the person’s name. If you see the person’s name and profile picture on the results page, it means they haven’t blocked you yet.

If you don’t see their name or profile picture, they may have blocked you or disabled your account. To know the truth, you should ask a mutual friend if his or her profile still exists.

Use Messages

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Open the Facebook page. Go to https://www.facebook.com/. You’ll see the News Feed page if you’re signed in.

If you are not logged in, you will enter your Facebook registered email address and password to continue.
This method only works when you and the person you think blocked you have at least one chat message.
You need to use the desktop version of Facebook Messenger because the mobile version sometimes still shows blocked accounts.

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Click the message icon. It’s the chat box icon with a lightning bolt. You will see an icon in the top right corner of the page. Click the icon to display the list below.

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Click See All in Messenger. This link is below the menu that just popped up. When you click, the Messenger page will be opened.

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Select a conversation. Click on a conversation with the person you think has blocked you. You will see the chats in the left column of the screen.

You may have to scroll down the list to find the conversation.

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Click ⓘ in the upper-right corner of the chat window. When you click it, you will see an additional window to the right of the conversation.

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Find a link to their profile page. If you don’t see a link in the box below the “Facebook Profile” heading, it means they did one of the following:

They block you. When someone blocks you, you can’t reply to messages or view their profile.
They disabled their account. This also happens when someone has disabled their account.

Find out if they disabled the account

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Ask a mutual friend. When you know you can’t access the profile of the person you think has blocked you, try contacting another mutual friend and ask if the other person’s Facebook account is still active. If that friend confirms the other person’s account is still working, they have blocked you on Facebook.

This is the only way to determine if someone has blocked you without having to ask directly, but some people will consider this an invasion of privacy.

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Check out other social networks. If you follow the person on Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, or another social media site, check to see if you can still find their account. This will tell you if they blocked you on those social networks.

Or, try to find out if there is any information that they have disabled their Facebook. Many people will announce on other social networks that they have closed their Facebook accounts.

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Contact that person directly. Ultimately, the only way to be sure someone has blocked you is to ask directly. If you choose to do this, you should make sure your actions are not threatening or rude. You should also be prepared to receive the bad news that they have blocked you on Facebook.

Only choose this method when you’ve run out of options – when a longtime best friend blocks you, for example, you’d be better off talking to them to mend the relationship. If you don’t want to, you can accept the truth and move on with your life.

Advice

Many users choose to hide their profile from Google’s search engine. Setting up privacy also helps users prevent strangers or people who are not mutual friends from searching for them on Facebook.

Warning

Sometimes, information about the person who blocked you still shows up on your phone’s Messenger app. You can’t message them, but you can still see their profile pictures. Therefore, you should use Facebook Messenger desktop version if you want to use Messenger to check someone’s Facebook account.

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