Profiles in social networking sites
like Facebook have caused trouble for
people whose prospective employers searched
for them on those services. Such searches
for people on Facebook will get a lot
easier in the coming weeks.
Facebook will begin permitting external
search sites to index its public search
listings. Upon logging in starting today,
Facebook members will be alerted to
this change, and given the opportunity
to opt out of this.
A public search listing in Facebook
shows a person's name and thumbnail
picture. "We think this will help
more people connect and find value from
Facebook without exposing any actual
profile information or data," Philip
Fung said on the Facebook blog.
"The public search listing contains
less information than someone could
find right after signing up anyway,
so we're not exposing any new information,
and you have complete control over your
public search listing," he said.
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