How to Keep Your Facebook Profile off Search Engines
Facebook has recently rolled out more user-intensive security measures in order to guard users privacy and encourage members of the site to actively select how they want their content shared. If you’ve been to the site this week you’ve seen a screen asking you to determine or redetermine who can view your postings, photos, etc.
One thing that has not been widely shared is that part of these new security measures allow the user to choose whether or not they want their Facebook info indexed by google. For a while now, search engines have been able to access your profile photo and info. If you don’t want your profile to show up on searches, here’s how to change the setting:
- Go to your account and click on Settings
- Select “Privacy Settings”
- Click on “Search”
- Uncheck the box that says “allow” next to public search results
There are rumors circulating that Facebook was allowing indexing of all user info but Facebook is denying that at the moment.
Filed under: Internet Safety News
Great tip! It’s so important to protect your digital footprint.
Don’t forget to double check your Applications and Websites settings as well, which controls what information of yours is available to Facebook via enhanced applications and websites. Here are two great references on this:
http://kiwicommons.com/2009/12/facebook-privacy-settings-guide/
http://www.facebook.com/help/#/help/?page=839
Good information very useful for me and I’m sure others that have taken a look at it say the same thing. There is alot of information that can be taken and used, even if it is only to impress other people