‘Facebook Just Killed A Privacy Setting, So It’s A Good Time To Do Your Own Checkup’ – ‘ReadWrite’

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Facebook Just Killed A Privacy Setting, So It’s A Good Time To Do Your Own Checkup”.

Selena Larson says, “Facebook just killed the privacy feature that controlled who could search for your profile by first or last name. The company actually eliminated this feature last year for users who didn’t have the setting checked, but now it’s delivering the coup de grace even for those of us who actually use it.

(Update: Facebook clarified that this search setting won’t disappear—for those still using it, that is—until users get a notification and click a button reading, “Okay, I understand.”  Those notifications will be going out in coming weeks, not necessarily today.)

The company claims the feature was created when the social network was simply a directory of profiles”.

Facebook Just Killed A Privacy Setting, So It’s A Good Time To Do Your Own Checkup