Facebook users beware
According to this article Facebook will be allowing Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com to start indexing the facebook registered users profile, so if you don’t like it, your privacy might be exposed to public. To disable this feature you will have to login to your facebook account an adjust the privacy settings there. I tend to find this awkward though. If facebook wants to change their policy and expose my profile to the search engines, shouldn’t there be an email notification of this? Or perhaps they thought that an email warning would alert too many people to disable the feature, thus killing the purpose of it.
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Facebook is starting to piss me off. I got that msg once and when i refreshed it disappeared. So it was like a one time notice, period. So had i ignored it the first time and went back to check it, i wudnt know wat the hell was going on.
Tony: It could be a concern for people who don’t want their personal profile on search engines. Your pic, yeah I know where to find it :)
Shoush: I honestly just registered to see what made this thing worth what Yahoo paid for. I don’t use it regularly so I would expect email notification istead. As they send email notification if someone writes me a message, why wouldn’t they in that case?
Blue Dress: To be honest, this community is done in a very different way than many others. First, it tries to gather old friends together, not like Hi5 and others where you just browse and add people you will never hear of again. It’s not corrupted, at least not as other community sites are. It has some nice applications. It could be used professionally for freelancers for example.
In the end, I am really not using it more than few times a month max.
Fayoor: OUCH! not a good question to ask in public :). Facebook is a community site. It was locked for US only before Yahoo acquires it from the 22 year old man behind it for $1 billion dollar. Thats right, Billion with big B!
Tony: Are you serious? I though I read somewhere it was acquired. But was surprised not Yahoo footprints are on facebook.
but you’re right.
Thanks and sorry for the wrong info.
I am curious though, who would turn down a $1 billion offer? Specially after they promised him he will run the site as CEO.
You know your children’s children’s children could blame you for that someday :)
Yeah if that old grandpa of ours did sell it we wouldn’t be doing that now! :)
Heh, that does sound crazy. Though since the platform for the applications came out after the rumored offer, Facebook’s value was argued to have surpassed that $1 billion price tag.
Facebook could very well stay independent. After all, one could always get to be a company that _makes_ those billion dollar offers ;)
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/09/ff_facebook
The complete story.
ay privacy??? If the facebook user is using his/her FULL name and also letting everyone to see his/her pic.
which privacy you’re talking about?=/
Very.Q8ya: Maybe just showing it for his friends. Maybe he wants it only inside facebook, as no one can search without registration. But opening it to search engines is something different.
I thought it exposed such minimal information anyways… effectively just that you are using facebook to begin with, and your picture (if settings allow?). Personally I don’t care, my picture from my blog well outranks my public facebook profile ;)