Facebook removes choice to hide your name in search

Facebook is obtaining obviate a privacy feature that allowed users to limit WHO might realize them on the social network.

The search setting was removed last year for folks that weren't victimization it. Those that square measure still victimization the setting can see reminders concerning it being removed within the coming back weeks. This solely applies to a "small percentage" of users, in step with Facebook.

"The setting was created once Facebook was a straightforward directory of profiles and it absolutely was terribly restricted. For instance, it didn’t forestall folks from navigating to your Timeline by clicking your name in an exceedingly story in the News Feed, or from a mutual friend’s Timeline," aforesaid Facebook's chief privacy officer Michael Richter in an exceedingly journal post.

"Today, folks also can search Facebook victimization Graph Search (for example, 'People WHO sleep in an urban center,') creating it even a lot of vital to manage the privacy of the items you share instead of however folks get to your Timeline."

The setting created the search feature feel broken from time to time, in step with Facebook, and a few folks found it confusing once they tried yearning for somebody WHO they knew in person and will not realize them in search results.

 Facebook aforesaid that, whether or not you have got been victimization the setting or not, the simplest thanks to management what folks will realize concerning you on Facebook is to settle on WHO will see the individual stuff you share.

Anyone WHO needs to limit the audience of posts they need shared with in the past will try this on the privacy settings page. This suggests any posts that were antecedently shared with Friends of Friends or Public can currently be shared simply with Friends