Facebook has now unveiled its Graph Search tool,
which turns the personal information people have shared on facebook
into a powerful searchable database. "With Graph Search, you can look up
anything shared with you on Facebook, and others can find stuff you've
shared with them, including content set to Public. That means different
people see different results," Facebook said on the page.
With this new powerful search, your friends and employers can discover
things you thought were private. That's why this is a very good time to
review your privacy settings and go through your data on Facebook to
make sure you're not sharing anything publicly that you wish you
weren't. Facebook has done a good job of explaining what their privacy
and security settings are when you are looking at it, but you still have to
go through it. At the very least, you may want to go through photos
that you are tagged in and untag the ones you don't like or think
are inappropriate.
This just made me realize that there hasn't yet been an effective way to search Facebook data until now (in other words, my posts won't show up on Google). Maybe that was a good thing. Maybe I say heaps of strange things that could show up out of context now in a graph search.
ReplyDeleteI guess I need to check my settings now.