Facebook indexing user information on Google

If you happen to log in to your Facebook account recently, you have probably been prompted of a Facebook privacy announcement before you can go straight into your Facebook profile home page. It says that Facebook is making some changes to give Facebook users more control of what user information are willing to share to public to stay connected, some of this info are but not limited to your Facebook profile name and picture.

facebook privacy settings


Facebook have provided their users a more simplified options how users want to be found via search engines like Google and Bing. If users want to allow search engines to access their publicly available info visible to everyone this can be toggled by going to your Settings > Privacy Settings > Search > Public Search Results, just remove the check on the “allow indexing” option so that search engines will not be able to index your information. Other options are also available to Facebook users just make sure these settings are set the way you want it to be.

Related posts:

Tags: Facebook

Thank you for reading this article. Subscribe via RSS feeds or via Email to receive new updates.

One Response to “Facebook indexing user information on Google”

  1. dimaks Says:

    This is but another avenue for Facebook and Google to earn more at our expense, being the avid users :)

    [Reply]

Leave a Reply

Spam protection by WP Captcha-Free