Skip to main content

Limit interactions

To restrict who can contact you or engage with you or your content on a social media service.

In plain English

It means narrowing the group of people who can reach you or interact around what you share. The focus is on who may make contact or engage with you or your posts on the service.

In context

Here, “Limit interactions” denotes a safety control for restricting which people can contact you or engage with you or your content.

Situation
Reporting content, appealing decisions, reading restrictions, and using safety controls
What it communicates
safety control for narrowing who can reply, mention, tag, or otherwise engage.

Meaning limits

The term alone does not say which people are restricted or how the restriction is applied, because that can vary.

Examples

“After strangers began messaging her and commenting on her posts, she chose to limit interactions.”

Core meaning

“If the replies keep coming from unknown accounts, limit interactions to people you know.”

In context