New settings on Facebook: Hide impossible - STERN.DE

itemprop=”caption”> Facebook again changes his’ privacy-Einstelungen so that all users can be found in the search graph. © Oliver Berg / DPA

J ow each user is visible. Facebook has changed its privacy settings again. This means that all profiles can now be found on the social network of each by entering the name. The reason: In the future, the option “Who can see your timeline on your name?” no longer be available.

“This setting has been developed at a time, in the Facebook profile was a simple directory with limited options. Other users could for example go to your timeline, simply by only your name in a news message or clicked in the chronicle of a mutual friend. “writes Michael Richter, responsible for privacy on Facebook, on the company blog. Meanwhile, the search options in the network are more extensive. In addition, many users were confused when finding a friend through the search function was not possible.

More and more public

The Social Network had removed that setting in the previous year for all users who had not made use of the option. According to the company, only a single digit percentage of users are using the setting. Around 1.1 billion users worldwide still a large number All users who currently protect their profiles in this way to search queries, in the weeks to receive a message in which they are informed about the change.

critics of facilitated findability warn of the danger of stalking in the social network. When stalking the intentional and repeated Follow or harassing a person is called. Although most of the information a profile is made accessible only for friends, unknowns can find out about the name lookup information about individuals or harass them with comments and messages. Also info in posts of friends can be a way for strangers to gather information about a person.

The decision to facilitate the traceability of user profiles, Facebook is implementing a strategy that had already taken care of at the beginning of the year for discussions on the net. The introduction of the search graph search can be since the beginning, status updates, comments and captions search for content. Thus, searches like “posts about the favorite shows of my friends” or “friends of my posts from last month’s” possible and provide a number of hits. Previously, the search results to people places and interests were displayed. Graph-Search is currently limited to users who use Facebook in English.

So they continue to protect their privacy

The changes in the Facebook search is more important than ever to pay attention to the audience of posts and images for users. Contributions that are made under the “Public” option in the network can be seen by all other users, including people from completely unknown. It is therefore recommended posts and images with the “friends” or “friends without friends” option to be provided to make the findability. The settings of older entries can be changed also “restrict Past Posts” yet later in the privacy settings under the option. In addition, users should ask friends, unpleasant posts, where you will even mentioned to delete or report these contributions on the corresponding button.