Facebook to sunset 'Who can look up your timeline by name?' feature

Last year, Facebook started removing the privacy-checking feature called “Who can look up your timeline by name?” The company announced Thursday that it is officially ending this feature, prompting users to take better control of their individual privacy settings.

Facebook explained the reasoning for this decision:

Everyone used to have a setting called “Who can look up your Timeline by name?,” which controlled whether you could be found when people typed your name into the Facebook search bar.

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