Comments on: Facebook Will Eat Your Children http://www.contentious.com/2009/12/16/facebook-will-eat-your-children/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:46:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.contentious.com/2009/12/16/facebook-will-eat-your-children/comment-page-1/#comment-1229719 Mark Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:04:37 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/?p=3053#comment-1229719 That "urgent update" has been going around on Facebook statuses for a couple of days. Who knows who you should believe, but Facebook has responded to this meme with this message when you actually visit your settings: "Worried about search engines? Your information is safe. There have been misleading rumors recently about Facebook indexing all your information on Google. This is not true. Facebook created public search listings in 2007 to enable people to search for your name and see a link to your Facebook profile. They will still only see a basic set of information." That “urgent update” has been going around on Facebook statuses for a couple of days. Who knows who you should believe, but Facebook has responded to this meme with this message when you actually visit your settings:

“Worried about search engines? Your information is safe.
There have been misleading rumors recently about Facebook indexing all your information on Google. This is not true. Facebook created public search listings in 2007 to enable people to search for your name and see a link to your Facebook profile. They will still only see a basic set of information.”

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