September 28, 2007

Students Fret Over Facebook's Public Listings

By BROCK READ

This month Facebook made an announcement that, at first glance, seemed innocuous: The social network decided to make "limited public search listings" available to people who weren't using the Web site.

What that means is that search engines like Google and Yahoo will now be able to locate any Facebook users who haven't designated their pages as "private." Philip Fong, a Facebook engineer, wrote on the company's blog that search-engine links would show only the names and thumbnail

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