Facebook Graph Search Must-Know Privacy Tips
It had been long that we heard something from
Facebook regarding an update and finally the largest social networking
site is back into the news for its new service, that is Facebook Graph
Search. Although the idea was introduced late back in January 2013, it
is only now that the service is live for the users. Facebook graph
search feature holds significant importance for the team as well as Mark
Zuckerberg declared it to the be the third pillar of Facebook. However,
just like all other features been introduced by Facebook previously, Graph search too,
has got all the potential to disturb your privacy concerns and it is
really important for you to understand what actually graph search is all
about and how shall you manage your settings to ensure your privacy.
What is Facebook Graph Search?
The service works as a new search engine which will
now enable you to ask questions from Facebook and get answers from its
strongly integrated database which will offer you results of the query
you made in your search. How about asking your search engine about how
many of your friends love to eat pizza or how many of your friends live
in Karachi? If you have gotten the point, try searching similar
questions in your search bar and enjoy finding a classified list of
friends who match the criteria you mentioned.
Adding more charm to the service, Facebook has also
integrated its search with MSN’s bing which will further ensure a better
search result.
What to know more about the availability of the service?
The feature is now available to most of the FB users
who are using Facebook in English (U.S). The feature was automatically
added to all such profiles from Monday after the news of availability of
the service was brought in notice.
You will see a message box just beside your settings
the moment you will log in to your profile. On clicking on the message
box, the page is redirected to Facebook graph search from where you can
learn more about the service.
How to Control Who Sees your Profile?
As a result of this milestone been achieved by
Facebook, your privacy has encountered a new risk of coming into notice
of people you really don’t want to let know about you and your personal
information.
It is important to remember here that by default, you
are shown open for Graph searching, which means that if a friend of
yours try to search things about the category you also fall in, you will
also be appearing in the result.
It is strongly recommended to change your privacy
settings according to what suits you the best and to make it easier for
you, here is a quick tutorial to set up privacy control to see who can
see your profile.
Now that you know it all about Facebook graph search,
play it safe and enjoy searching your friends and much more about them,
differently.
Share your views about the third pillar of Facebook,
Wishes,
