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Tech NewsFacebookHow to Lock Down Facebook Privacy Now That Old Posts Are Searchable
As of yesterday, Facebook Graph Search has officially opened its big, omniscient arms to every last check-in, status update, note, and comment you’ve ever posted throughout your entire Facebook career. Which, yes, sounds pretty terrifying, but don’t worry—we’re here to help you cover your tracks. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-finally-letting-you-search-for-old-posts-1429093100 Thankfully, Facebook has given us the tools we need … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
How to Lock Down Your Facebook Privacy Now That Graph Search Is Here
Graph Search is Facebook’s bold new way of browsing the social network, letting you call up photos of your family in California, restaurants your friends like in New York, or any public updates from Gizmodo employees who also like hot air ballooning. It’s been available the last several months in beta, but today it starts … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
Facebook’s Most Overlooked Design Change
Facebook showed us its new News Feed yesterday. It’s as pretty as anyone could have hoped, and a wonderful update to the design. But lost in the big images and new feeds was a pretty major change that actually started weeks ago: The first thing you look at on Facebook’s page has moved. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-new-news-feed-the-biggest-change-in-years-5989228 Move … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
Facebook’s Now Hiding Public Pages From Google’s Prying Eyes
As The Register learned, in part of an ongoing effort to turn Facebook into its own, closed little ecosystem, Zuck’s empire has closed off public events to, well, the public. Account-holding stalkers only, please. Once easily-accessible events listed as “public,” in addition to any other public pages, now require users to login before granting them … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
Should You Ruin Lives with Facebook Search?
Facebook search can find a lot of cool things, like every photo you’ve liked, friends who share interests, friends who share restaurants, and maybe even your next wife! (?) But it could also completely destroy someone’s existence. Should we? https://gizmodo.com/these-people-are-now-sharing-horrible-things-about-them-5976328 The threat here is very basic: people (perhaps yourself or someone you know) liked things … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebookHow Everybody Will Use Facebook Graph Search (Hint: Inappropriately)
Nick Douglas of Slacktory shows everybody how Facebook Graph Search, as awesome as it can be, will quickly devolve into a completely inappropriate search engine for finding MILFs, GILFs, pictures taken at the beach and anything of that nature. Basically, it’s going to start innocently with people trying to find others with the same music … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
Who Does Facebook Search Screw the Most?
Graph Search, which we’re going to call Facebook search from here on out because nobody wants to read or write “Graph Search,” is a dramatic new way to browse Facebook. But its implications spill over its rivals—which companies lose the most? https://gizmodo.com/heres-what-using-the-new-facebook-search-looks-like-5976201 It’s hard to give Facebook’s new search engine a fair appraisal, because it’s … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
3 Privacy Settings You Must Change Before Using Facebook Graph Search
Tweaking your Activity Log just became a necessary and tedious new part of being a Facebook user. Thanks to the service’s new Graph Search feature, all that profile info you’ve painstakingly updated over the years (employer, home town, relationship status, movie likes, etc) and all the photos you’ve added over time, are now to become … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
These People Are Now Sharing Horrible Things About Themselves Thanks to Facebook Search
FB’s glistening new search engine makes finding interesting things about yourself, your past, and all of your friends excitingly easy. It also makes it a cinch to find strangers who are openly racist, sexist, and generally embarrassing. This is fun! https://gizmodo.com/heres-what-using-the-new-facebook-search-looks-like-5976201 Nothing that wasn’t public before Graph Search will be public after Graph Search, but … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
Facebook Sure Is Taking This Graph Search Thing Seriously
Facebook, home of the Like, News Feed and Timeline, is now a social search company. Or at least it desperately wants to be. AllThingsD Senior Editor and friend of Gizmodo Mike Isaac snapped a picture of the new front sign at Facebook HQ and it’s now the Graph Search logo. Before it was the ubiquitous … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
Is It Ever OK to Hit on Someone You Don’t Know on Facebook?
No. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever do this. Never ever … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebookHere’s What Using the New Facebook Search Looks Like
Facebook Graph Search is an amazing feature with a terrible name. It takes the massive, inordinate amount of personal information and experiences you’ve charted over the years, and pulls them up with a few keystrokes. Watch it in action. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-just-declared-war-on-google-meet-your-new-sea-5976014 Although Graph Search isn’t as speedy as I’d like—not as smooth as Google—the thing is … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
What Is Facebook Graph Search?
Facebook’s big announcement today was Graph Search. It’s a deeply important step for Facebook. But it’s also kind of unlike other search systems out there, and adds a bunch of new ways to use Facebook. Here’s how it works. Graph Search is way to sort through Facebook… The first thing to note is that Graph … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
How To Get on the Waiting List For Facebook Graph Search Right Now
Facebook’s Graph Search landing page is live now at Facebook.com/graphsearch. Unfortunately, this is not actually the live product but just an explainer. To get on the waiting list, head over to the page, scroll all the way to the bottom and click the “Join Waiting List” button. Facebook will notify you when it’s your turn. … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebookFacebook Just Declared War on Google: Meet Your New Search Engine
Today’s big bad Facebook revelation is a search engine—not for the web, but for your entire life. And it’s just another step in Facebook’s attempt to conquer the entire Internet. This is Graph Search. Facebook’s search has been convoluted and weak for years until now—it’s hard to expect what you get when you type anything … Continued
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