FACEBOOK ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR "GRAPH SEARCH": At a Facebook press event yesterday (January 15th) Mark Zuckerberg, C-E-O of Facebook, announced the social network's latest product, called Graph Search. Zuckerberg explained that Graph Search will be different from a web search in that it will take a query from the user, and then give you an answer rather than links that might provide the answer. Zuckerberg says Graph Search is completely personalized, and that people, photos, places, and interests are the focus for the first iteration of the product. Zuckerberg also announced a partnership with Microsoft's Bing search engine.
Read more about Graph Search here: http://tinyurl.com/b75gdxv

TWO FACEBOOK PRIVACY SETTINGS TO TWEAK BEFORE GRAPH SEARCH STARTS (Fox News):  If you would rather not have your friends of friends be able to search for "single women in New York from Kansas who like big bang theory" and come up with your name, you'll want to take a closer look at your profile. First off, you might want to limit who can search for you in Facebook. To stop friends of friends from seeking you out:
1. Click the lock icon on the top right of your profile.
2. Click Edit next to "Who can look up your timeline by name".
3. Select Friends from the drop-down menu that appears.
4. Click Close.

  • Next up, it's time to check out your Activity Log and make sure you're happy about all those photos your friends have tagged you in, the likes you've shared and the places you've checked in. The tedious part here is that you'll need to review every item ever entered on your timeline. So, settle in, cause this could take a while.
    1. Click the lock icon on the top right of your profile.
    2. Click Use Activity Log next to "Review all your posts and things you're tagged in".
    3. Click on the icon of two people's heads to the right of any post, like, tag, comment, photo, etc. that you'd prefer to limit visibility.
    4. Click Report/Remove Tag (in the event of a photo; language changes depending on type of entry).
    5. Select "I want this photo removed from Facebook."
    Click Continue. A message will be sent to the person who posted that item, assuming it's not you, requesting that they remove it.
    The way Facebook work's its privacy settings these days, you automatically limit future posts to just Friends. But, you may not have the same settings on your past post. To lock out friends of friends from your frat party pictures, you'll need to:
    1. Click the lock icon on the top right of your profile.
    2. Click Limit Past Posts next to "Limit the audience for old posts on your timeline".
    3. Click Limit Old Posts. Note, this step cannot be easily undone, per a warning pop-up.