on FACEBOOK.. your probably on a Search Engine...

kazwookie

Yes I did know about this, it is the same for most sites, check your privicay settings.

(why do you think I am NOT on face book!!)

spud17

I'm on facebook under a fake name,

That's why at work we refer to it as Fakebook.

Personally, I avoid it, also all the invites for other such contact sites.

isofa

Just thought I'd add this info, you only have the option to have (or not) a Public Search profile, if you set your search visibility to Everyone - which I and most savvy users don't. I set mine to friends of friends, which is a wide enough circle in my opinion.

Mancunian

kazwookie wrote: »

Yes I did know about this, it is the same for most sites, check your privicay settings.

(why do you think I am NOT on face book!!)

NO not the same as most websites!!!

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aahh just found this:-

"Users who want to restrict what information is available to the public or opt out of the feature altogether can change their privacy settings. They have a month to do so. Despite assurances from Facebook, critics have expressed disappointment at the move.

"This move transforms Facebook from being a social network to being a quasi-White Pages of the web," commented technology writer Om Malik in his blog GigaOm"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6980454.stm


so it was introduced late 2007 and worryingly all existing users were set as default to be listed on Public search engines. I think they should have least sent a message via the facebook inbox for such a major change.

Does anyone know of any other site that physically submits a "personally made" page of its users information by default? and not just stuff it has trawled? I doubt it.

leadhead

kazwookie wrote: »

Yes I did know about this, it is the same for most sites, check your privicay settings.

(why do you think I am NOT on face book!!)

I realised this some time ago after searching for a friend of a friend

A very dangerous site if you dont want to be public property.

My daughter has had abuse from her ex, and his mates.

Shes now gone totally private, with nothing showing publically.

She can still be found by ex school friends etc, but not now by
a simple malicious name seach

I think a lot of people would be very surprised if they realised
what could be found out about them by tracing friends of friends.

Facebook and other sites like this should be explaining to their
members the possible consequences of going public....

My friends "ex" got drugged up last weekend(thats why he's an ex)
and sent nasty messages to some of her family who are openly
public on facebook.........

A very dangerous site, especially if you are unaware of the limits
and depths a person can delve into your "friends".........

Reggie_Rebel

I'd rather have some !!!!head sending me messages on facebook than have them knocking on my door having found my address on the electoral roll.

Internet scaremongering

DatabaseError

Reggie_Rebel wrote: »

I'd rather have some !!!!head sending me messages on facebook than have them knocking on my door having found my address on the electoral roll.
Internet scaremongering

So it's not just me that thinks the world's gone mad, then?

mr_fishbulb

brightonman123 wrote: »

I think facebook, flickr etc need to pull their cyber socks up!

People who put their personal information on the Internet expecting it to be safe and private need to pull their socks up.

Marty_J

I agree totally. Some people have the curious delusion that the internet is a private place.

If you don't want anyone to see it, don't put it on the internet. Simple.

Mancunian

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

People who put their personal information on the Internet expecting it to be safe and private need to pull their socks up.

the internet as a whole or just these types of sites.

if its the internet as a whole, you don't use any online systems ie Internet banking etc? at all?