On entering Facebook yesterday I noticed that I was being invited to check out my public search listing.
I didn't know I had one!
It seems that Facebook is changing.
My Public Search Listing will be available not only from the welcome page but soon through search engines like Google (sic)
My public search listing means that "friends" who aren't yet on Facebook will be able to search for me from Facebook's front page. In a week or two these listings will be available in Google et al. Once again our understanding of the word friend is stretched. It now seems to include anyone, friend or foe, who might be connected to the Internet.
Anyone who discovers me who is not already a member of Facebook will have to join if they want to contact me...which will still leave me in control of any contact but also makes me link bait for Facebook, and Facebook little more than a telephone directory.
Which means that I might want to be ex directory.
Which reminds me of this observation by Tom Coates.
The BBC report this story here.
I'm really not sure I understand Facebook.
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