Facebook now lets you search everyone’s old posts – here’s how to stop it including yours
Until now, Facebook was pretty good about keeping your posts private. Even posts set to "public" were viewable only if someone found your profile – and it's also relatively easy to make your own profile pretty much unsearchable on the site. But all that is about to change. Facebook has announced that it is rolling out a new, beefed-up search function, which will let you search all of its public content in one go. Search "New Statesman" or "Eastenders", and the site will soon mine all posts with "public" privacy settings to throw up any relevant posts. Whether this affects you has a lot to do with your privacy settings, as anyone with a draconian hold on their profile will have already set most posts to "private". But the change also affects posts from the past, when you may not have been so careful. Facebook actually allowed you to search other users' posts before in a more limited way, and this feature's subsequent removal implied an increased concern for users' privacy. The return to the concept suggests
23 Oct 2015 ... Facebook wants to be a news source, so it's made two trillion old posts searchable.