{"id":47483,"date":"2013-10-11T09:18:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T07:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=47483"},"modified":"2013-10-11T09:28:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T07:28:51","slug":"facebook-no-more-hiding-from-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/47483\/facebook-no-more-hiding-from-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook: no more hiding from search"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook is getting rid of a privacy feature that let users limit who can find them on the social network.<\/p>\n

Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it is removing a setting that controls whether users could be found when people type their name into the website’s search bar.<\/p>\n

Facebook says only a single-digit percentage of the nearly 1.2 billion people on its network were using the setting.<\/p>\n

The change comes as Facebook is building out its search feature, which people often use to find people they know – or want to know – on the site.<\/p>\n

Menlo Park, California-based Facebook says users can protect their privacy by limiting the audience for each thing they post about themselves.<\/p>\n

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