Henever and however you post, you should be checking to see if what you're putting up is for public view or just for friends or specific lists of friends. All of Facebook's other privacy controls and policies remain in place, and while the "Who can look up your Timeline by name?" setting had some utility for helping Facebook users be less visible to those who might be searching for them, it didn't absolutely prevent others from finding them: This development did not, as claimed in some alarmist messages spread on the Internet, "delete all privacy settings on Facebook," nor did Facebook "get rid of its privacy policy" (and the change certainly had nothing to do with the Obama administration or the U.S. Whether you've been using the setting or not, the best way to control what people can find about you on Facebook is to choose who can see the individual things you share. For the small percentage of people still using the setting, they will see reminders about it being removed in the coming weeks. The search setting was removed last year for people who weren't using it. For example, people told us that they found it confusing when they tried looking for someone who they knew personally and couldn't find in search results, or when two people were in a Facebook Group and then couldn't find each other through search. The setting also made Facebook's search feature feel broken at times. Seattle,") making it even more important to control the privacy of the things you share rather than how people get to your Timeline. Today, people can also search Facebook using Graph Search (for example, "People who live in For example, it didn't prevent people from navigating to your Timeline by clicking your name in a story in News Feed, or from a mutual friend's Timeline. The setting was created when Facebook was a simple directory of profiles and it was very limited. Everyone used to have a setting called "Who can look up your Timeline by name?," which controlled whether you could be found when people typed your name into the Facebook search bar.
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