Yes, they can. It's their story and they can control who views it.
Yes. Just as with other aspects of Facebook privacy, users can choose to prevent specific individuals from seeing their stories. They might do this if they've had an argument or simply don't want you to be in on that part of their Facebook life.
You can. First, understand that Facebook gives you control over who sees your stories. You can either set the story privacy to 'Friends except...' and then add the name of the person you want to keep from seeing it. Or you can go to the 'More options' and set up a custom privacy setting where you can be very specific about who can view your story and who can't. This way, you can easily prevent that particular person from seeing your FB story.
Yes, it's possible. In Snapchat, you can customize your story's privacy. You can go to settings and set it so that particular people can't see it.
To stop someone from viewing your story, you might consider restricting it to a certain group of people you trust. Or, if it's on a social media platform, you could change the visibility settings to something like 'friends only' or 'private'.
No. The idea of a private story is to give the viewer some level of privacy. Just as you can choose to view or not view, and the creator doesn't get notified of your every action regarding the viewing. It would be rather invasive if they could know when you stop viewing. So, don't worry, your actions in this regard are private.
Yes. It's common for social apps to offer this feature. Maybe they don't want you to see it for personal reasons or just to limit the audience. But it depends on the platform and its specific settings.
It depends. In some cases, you might be able to if you have control over the platform or access settings, but it's not always straightforward.
Definitely. On Facebook, people have a great deal of control over who can interact with their content, including stories. Blocking you from seeing their story might be a privacy choice. For example, if they are sharing personal or sensitive information in their story and they don't trust you or just don't want you to be part of their story's audience, they can easily block you. This is all part of Facebook's privacy and user - control features.
Yes, you can. Facebook gives you options to control who can see your stories.
No, currently there is no way to prevent someone from taking a screenshot of your FB story on Facebook.
Yes, you can. On Facebook, you can go to your privacy settings. There, you can choose who can view your stories. You can create custom lists and exclude the people you don't want to see your stories. It's a useful feature to maintain your privacy and share your stories only with the people you trust.