Facebook Indexing: Are You Ready To Be Googled? – There isn’t much privacy in social media nowadays. Have you noticed that Facebook has been trying to get your most attention regarding changes on privacy settings? A pop-up window will come up after you have logged-in. So if you are a facebook user, pay attention. Prepared to be indexed in the world of Google.
Facebook is now in the process of “indexing” your personal information you have posted and saved. So what is web indexing? – A simple way to make information on a web site easier to find – People you might not even know may find you or even can see your thoughts you have shared in your account. Best to stop saying bad or horrible things about others, dumb-ass things you and your friends said to each other or even take personal quizzes with your self information can be more searchable you have ever imagined. This will be opened to some search engines such as Google and Bing that you have no access to control.
So, how will you protect your account on Facebook? I mean yourself…yeah yourself.
Go to your Facebook account. Find and click the Settings menu. Go to Privacy Settings and then “Search” – and from there toggle the option that allows indexing.
Why is Facebook doing these stuff?
Twitter recently deal with Bing to index tweets. So Facebook could be more competitive than Twitter if they would do the same, indexing. Providing users not to tweet anymore when their status update in Facebook can be now seen more in public.
It’s not a good idea. This is the time to change some private information in your settings and profiles before a stranger sees your private phone numbers, your complete home addresses or even your butt exposed images.
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nice update! ill take note of this and would make a post on my blog relating to this. thanks thanks!
Sure dude..i’ll add you in my links.
aw, makapaglog-in nga sa facebook. haven’t changed my privacy settings yet. thanks for this post kuya tsi. i think i saw you in facebook.
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Oh yeah..are you included in my friend’s list? Thanks for commenting.
Hindi pa… Hehe. Pero, i saw you in Flamindevil and Jasonhamster’s friends list. Add kita kuya Tsi ah, pero mamaya na pag-uwi sa bahay.
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Ok np, thanks btw.
really? i didn’t know this. thanks for the info, tsi. i’ll definitely do this. now na.
Worried about search engines? Your information is safe.
There have been misleading rumors recently about Facebook indexing all your information on Google. This is not true. Facebook created public search listings in 2007 to enable people to search for your name and see a link to your Facebook profile. They will still only see a basic set of information.
Ito ang sabi ng Facebook Tsi when I tried to change my privacy setting. LOL. Di daw totoo. Heheh.
Sabi nga dapat may initial actions ka about this, paano kung totoo? good to hear na naglabas sila ng statement diba? – you know what recently lang sabi ng isa kong friend ang profile ko daw na se search then i checked it ayun naka set sa “everyone” yung staus ng prof ko oh medyo nagka error tas sabay kambyo lol.
They just released an open letter, when you click your privacy settings, a pop-up letter will come out that all these speculations were just rumors, add mo na lang ako sa facebook lolz.
ayun naman pala eh hahaha
pero good thing na na iinform tayo sa ganyang mga bagay for security sake diba??
thanks tsi! matignan na nga rin ang FB ko
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Yeah, start editing your private infos lol.
dapat masanay na tayo dito. kapag pinasok mo talaga profile mo online, indexed agad. kaya dapat hindi ilalabas lahat. lalo na yung secrets. LOL
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The best thing to do is don’t even put your private information throughout your account profile..yung mga basic lang.
i don’t want my info to be indexed. haha, arte ko. pero minsan nakakatakot din dahil sa mga stalker. aw.
there are advantages that FB is doing that, although not for me. hehe.
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Marami ka kaseng stalker, lol.
haha, di naman.. mas marami ka nga eh. yay.
oist, merry christmas.
pero FB confirmed na di totoo yan.
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at first talaga naiinis ako jan sa privacy setting na yan..Kaya hanggang ngayon ndi ko pa inaasikaso yan..haha!
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Edit mo na.
ayus na update aku dun ahh.. hehe, teka, parang sila lang, tingnan kodin Fb ko..
Thnx!!
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Yep just be careful on what you post or info you include in your acct.
hmmm… thanks for that info kuya tsi…
halatang di nagbabasa ng updates sa FB eh noh? hehe…
nwei, googelable na nga mga pangalan natin eh… kakaloka talaga ang net..
i dont need privacy naman kc wala naman akong tnatago…. hehe
Oo nga naman, weno diba?
after all, things boil down to earning from our private information, as well as media shared in our private networks. so yes, better be safe than sorry, check out your privacy settings and change it wisely.
great blog here!
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You are right dimaks, thanks for droppin’ by here..and for the praise as well.
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