Facebook no longer lets users hide from search

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  • wehateporn
    Promoting Debate on GFY
    • Apr 2007
    • 27176

    #1

    Facebook no longer lets users hide from search


    http://www.sfgate.com/business/techn...ch-4885321.php

    "Facebook is getting rid of a privacy feature that let users limit who can find them on the social network.

    Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it is removing a setting that controls whether users could be found when people type their name into the website's search bar.

    Facebook says only a single-digit percentage of the nearly 1.2 billion people on its network were using the setting.

    The change comes as Facebook is building out its search feature, which people often use to find people they know ? or want to know ? on the site.

    Facebook, which is based in Menlo Park, Calif., says users can protect their privacy by limiting the audience for each thing they post about themselves."
  • NinjaSteve
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Dec 2003
    • 11089

    #2
    How does Facebook benefit from removing this? Maybe those "single digit figures" were using it because they had a reason to.
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    • wehateporn
      Promoting Debate on GFY
      • Apr 2007
      • 27176

      #3

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      • wehateporn
        Promoting Debate on GFY
        • Apr 2007
        • 27176

        #4
        Originally posted by NinjaSteve
        How does Facebook benefit from removing this? Maybe those "single digit figures" were using it because they had a reason to.
        Also more people will leave Facebook because of this

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        • CaptainHowdy
          Too lazy to set a custom title
          • Dec 2004
          • 94032

          #5
          Just don't use Facebook ...

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          • wehateporn
            Promoting Debate on GFY
            • Apr 2007
            • 27176

            #6
            Originally posted by CaptainHowdy
            Just don't use Facebook ...
            Never have and never will

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