Facebook has sought to reassure members that its new Graph Search system will not expose teenagers’ profiles to adults they don't know.
Graph Search is being gradually introduced to the social network's one billion
members after it was announced
by Mark Zuckerberg last month.
The new system has provoked privacy concerns, because it allows members to
search for information on Facebook such as "single women in London".
Graph Search returns a list of members who meet the criteria and set their
privacy setting such that whoever entered the search is allowed to see their
profile.
Facebook today said it had taken special measures to ensure that teenagers
were not exposed to potentially dangerous strangers.
"As with all of our products, we designed Graph Search to take into
account the unique needs of teens on Facebook," it said in
a blog post.
In particular, Graph Search follows the existing rule on Facebook that
teenagers are not allowed to make their profile visible to anyone more
distant than a friend of a friend.
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