Facebook has been well known for its privacy policy. Till the time facebook users didn’t worry about their profile privacy as Facebook does not allow search engine to crawl its user’s public profiles. But from today Facebook has decided to go Public!! Facebook will let Search engine like google,yahoo, bing etc to index facebook users profile exposing users personal information to public.

It means your personal information like your photos, address, contact numbers will be exposed by search engine. Facebook has started its indexing functionality this week and has given 1 month time to its users to change their privacy settings in Facebook. Currently Facebook is blocking search engine because there is no sitemap kind of technique used by Facebook.

So it means that now your private information is no longer safe?? No you can change the setting in your facebook account to block search engine to crawl your profile information.

Go to “Settings” -> “Privacy settings” -> “Search” -> uncheck the toggle button allowing indexing

Do it today unless wants to have public fame!!

Facebook is doing this to have more and more traffic by references of search engine. Flood of search engine redirected traffic will emerge as soon as facebook starts indexing. This may be because of just recently Twitter has allowed indexing their tweets to become more popular. If Facebook also allow index then they also can compete with Twitter. I don’t know why Facebook think so as in my opinion Facebook and Twitter are two different things.

Indexing of Facebook users has also an advantage for people who want to be public for their product marketing or business spread. Facebook might also end up in advertising portal!! It will be easier for a person to find his/her friend on facebook easily by search engine.

For me I don’t need any fame and want to be popular so I will change my privacy settings just now but what about millions of users who might be ignorant or forgot to change setting or might not been aware of this indexing thing. Spread the news so that more and more users can protect their private information to be displayed in search engine.

I hope Facebook will not start Photo indexing after this and compromise photos of millions of users in image search engines…

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