How To Remove Yourself From Public Search On Facebook

July 30, 2010

In view of the recent news about 100 million Facebook profile being leaked, we would like to bring to you a short tutorial on how to exclude yourself from such situation.

The profile data that were leak were actually nothing new. All the information is already available if one searches it. The listed users are those who have not bothered to remove themselves from being listed on public search engines.

Here is a quick How To:

1. Log in to your Facebook Account.

2. Select the Privacy Settings options from the Accounts tab.

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3. At the bottom of the following page, you will find the settings for ‘Applications and Websites’. Click on the ‘Edit your settings’ link.

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4. On the following page, you will find a ‘public search’ at the bottom of the list. Click on the ‘Edit Settings’ button located at the far right side.

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5.  Now you’ll see a description of the public search settings and at the bottom of the description, ‘Enable public search’ with a check box in front of it.

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Uncheck the option and congratulations, “you have just removed yourself from public search.”

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  • http://facebooklogin.net Robert Cowan

    I wish to be removed from Face Book. I am always receiving messages from people I do not know to join my Face Book plus advertisements. I do not use it and wish to be removed.

    Thank You! For any and all cooperation in this matter.

    Robert Cowan
    Cowan47@msn.com

  • http://facebooklogin.net Robert Cowan

    Please remove me from Facebook.

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