How People Find and Contact You
This section allows you to control who can send you friend requests and whether you show up on facebook searches.
Who can send you friend requests?
- Click Edit next to this setting. You will be presented with a drop-down menu with two options.Everyone allows strangers to send you a friend request. Friends of friendsonly allows people to send you a friend request if they are already a friend of someone on your friends list.
Who can see your friends list?
- Click Edit to open the setting. You will have a dropdown that will allow you to pick who can see your friends list. You will have the option to pick Customhere with the same options as described above in the Privacy Settings for Posts section.
Who can look you up using the email address you provided?
- Click Edit to open the setting. You can select from a drop-down who is able to perform a search for you using your email address. The options areEveryone, Friends of Friends , andFriends.
Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?
- Click Edit to open this setting. It has the same drop-down options as the email search option above.
Do you want search engines outside of Facebook to link to your profile?
- Click Edit. Here is a far-reaching privacy setting you will want to consider. There is a checkbox at the bottom: Allow search engines outside of Facebook to link to your profile. If this is checked, when people search for your name on Google, for example, the search results can include links to your Facebook profile.
- If you uncheck this box, search engines will stop linking to your profile. This change will not have immediate results; it will take time for your profile to be dropped from the various search engines, as these are outside of Facebook’s direct control.
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