* Posts by Scott Matthewman

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Facebook to show profiles to search engines

Scott Matthewman

Wrong headline and opening para

Not only is the headline wrong, so is the opening paragraph. Which kind of invalidates the whole article, really.

Even at the loosest level of privacy, the only aspects of your profile that will be visible to people who aren't logged in are a small thumbnail of your profile photo (if you have one) and your name. And if people are searching for you by name, then the latter is hardly a state secret, is it?

It's also inaccurate to say that "anyone will be able to view member profiles". Even if someone finds you via the public search, they'll still have to login (registering in the process, if necessary). So the privacy aspect of viewing full profiles has not changed.