Facebook ends with the possibility to hide profile in research ... - Público.pt

With the exception of persons who have directly locked, Facebook will eliminate the possibility for the user to hide your profile in searches that are done by name. The possibility was used very little, but still, they had this function active privacy will be alerted to the change, which will be finalized by December.

The idea is that more and more people use the opportunities that Facebook gives to limit access to posts each time one is sharing information, rather than use these constraints broader advances the publishing technology specialist TechCrunch .

Until now, the user, in the privacy settings, one of the questions that was made was related to whom he could search his timeline by name. It was there that could limit the option, for example, friends or friends of friends.

Foreseeing new problems around concerns about privacy, Facebook, referred to TechCrunch , remember that often the person’s name would eventually be found in other ways, such as when someone consulted a list friends where that user was added or some picture where the person had been identified.

By December, at the top of the page for users who have chosen this option, warnings will appear to change to explain what will happen and ask the person to confirm that realize what is at stake.

But the truth is that a study released in September and had a sample of ex-Facebook users indicated that privacy concerns were precisely the most frequent cause for leaving one social network, to which are added factors such as loss of time and the artificiality of friendships online .

The findings are from a study of the School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria, in September published a journal specialty, called Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking .

The aim of the researchers was to find motivations and personality traits that distinguish people who use Facebook and those who leave the social networking phenomenon they refer to as “suicide virtual identity”. The sample was not representative, included 310 people from various countries, who had left the site , and 321 who were users.

privacy concerns were reported by 48.3% of ex-users, who were asked to explain in writing the reasons for the abandonment. The second most common reason cited by 13.5%, was a feeling of dissatisfaction (where researchers included the answers that related to issues such as changes in design Facebook, displeasure with the position ” monopoly “and lost time).