Facebook + Bing = Privacy Issues
This is going to be very short but very, very effective and if you use Facebook, very important to you.
This is going to be very short but very, very effective and if you use Facebook, very important to you.In around two months time, updates from Facebook will be integrated into Bing search.
What this means to you is that if any of your privacy settings at Facebook are set to “everyone” then all of those updates you make at Facebook will be publicly available on Bing.
*I think I just saw you cringe.*
So unless you don’t want everything you say at Facebook to be out there for the entire world to see, you need to make some changes.
The good news is, this isn’t happening for a couple of months yet so you’ve got plenty of time to change your privacy permissions.
Here’s how you do that:
- Login to Facebook
- Click on “Settings” in the upper right hand corner
- Change the settings so that nothing listed says “everyone”.
And don’t think that just because Bing is now in the picture that Google won’t be far behind…at least on some front. It’s long been talked about that Facebook is a huge Google competitor. Yet here comes Bing with the ability to integrate these Facebook updates…which Google has yet to do and which I’m sure was a slap in the face.
Maybe that’s why Google announced that they’ll be integrating real-time Twitter updates just like Bing (who got there first by the way).
All of a sudden, Bing is becoming a huge thorn in Google’s side. I see a lot of “playing catch-up” going on lately. But hey, a little competition never hurt anyone right?
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