Facebook search Opt-Out Removed

[Ink]

ArsTechnica: Facebook to rip search opt-out from under those who were using it
The social network already got the apathetic. Now it's back for the unwilling.

If you checked that box saying you don’t want to appear in Facebook search results, get ready: soon, that choice is going away. Facebook announced in a blog post Thursday that it's removing the ability to opt out of appearing in search results, both for friends and globally, for those who’ve had it enabled.

Facebook actually removed the search opt-out for everyone who didn’t have it enabled early this year, around the time it introduced Graph Search. Now, ten months later, Facebook is giving the boot to anyone who actually cared enough to opt out, referring to the checkbox as an “old search setting.” Facebook claims that less than one percent of users were taking advantage of the feature.

 

[Ink]

Probably less than 1%, only after you removed it for everyone who hadn't been using it.

 

[iPanik]

Facebook should get their facts straight. On some sites they are quoted with "less than one percent" and on others it it "single digit percentage", quite the difference.

Not that it matters, even if it is only one percent of users, that is still 12 million people that use the feature. Some might call that a lot of people.

 

[honorbazin]

Facebook is really working on user's privacy policies and within a month there won't be anyone hiding in the search results. It is purely meant for enhancing the graph search within the users and those who are also a part of digital media marketing.