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Facebook just rolled out an update to their privacy settings, hoping to make them easier for people to use and understand. However, with this update, your profile settings default to a level of sharing that you may not want. Unless you manually override the change, you’ll automatically be sharing status updates, about me, work/education and family/relationship information with “Everyone.” All of this data will be publicly available for search engines to crawl and index. And, with Google adding real-time search results very prominently into their traditional results within the next couple of days (preview real-time here), your status updates could potentially become much more public than you ever imagined.

What can you do if you don’t want to share this information with everyone on the world wide web? Simply go to the Settings drop down, select Privacy Settings and then click on Profile Information. From there, adjust using the drop down menus to meet your own personal comfort level for sharing: everyone, friends of friends, only friends or customize. Then go back to Privacy Settings and click on Search. This will allow you to adjust who’s able to view your information through Facebook and search engine searches.

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