Keep your Facebook profile off search engines | Be Web Smart
Have you Google'd yourself lately? (Or Bing'd yourself? Or Yahoo'd yourself? Why do these terms sound a little dirty?) If you have, you might have seen that one of the top results is your Facebook profile. You can prevent that from happening if you want to make it a little bit harder for people to find you. What will people see if they click your Facebook profile from a Search Engine Result Page? 1. If they are NOT signed in to their own Facebook account, they will see limited information from your profile. This will be based on your privacy settings for certain portions of your profile. For example they might see your activities and interests if you have set those to "Public". They will not see your list of friends, wall, or photos. They will however see your profile photo. Here's an example. I found my brother's profile with a simple search (name blurred to protect the innocent). His Facebook profile was at the top of the search results list. So any former flame who may be trying to
20 Nov 2011 ... 1. Go to your Privacy Settings. · 2. Next to the section “Who can look me up?” find the words “Do you want other search engines to link to your ...