<p>I’m not worried about privacy NOW, just the unforseen need for it in the future. God forbid, a tragedy befalls my family, and the media is all over our casual photos on facebook. Or someone runs for office, or gets stalked, or other scenario I haven’t thought of. </p>
<p>I agree, my kids are already out there with all the other kids and don’t know what privacy is anymore.</p>
<p>The only photo visible thru google would be the profile picture. Only friends can see your webpage.
Did you also know that if you have a listed phone number, it can be googled to get your address? Try it! I received an email about it some time ago and there was a way to have it removed, but I don’t remember what I did to remove it.</p>
<p>Be aware that your facebook picture doesn’t have to be a photo of yourself. I change mine around a lot but for example, my facebook photo at the moment is the scenery where I live (I live in a very scenic area). As Melsmom wrote, the only thing you see on google is that you are on facebook with the profile picture (which doesn’t have to be a photo of yourself) but only those you approve of as “friends” can view your web page on facebook. Nobody can view your photo albums on facebook unless you have “friended” them. Even if you were to join the CC parent group on facebook, the other members in the group could not view your web page or photo albums unless you chose to “friend” members individually. You can choose who sees anything on your page. At the moment, I am not in the CC parent group on facebook, but if I were to join it, people would know my name but could not access my facebook page unless I invited or agreed one on one with individuals to be “friends.” I am in only one FB group at the moment (an offshoot of some parents on CC in fact) and I am not “friends” with everyone in the group and only a subset of the group sees my profile page and photos, etc. I can pick who I think I know well enough, in other words, to view anything about me beyond my name.</p>
<p>For some reason, some people can see the members in the group on facebook (not the discussion or any info), and others who search for the group can not. I can’t figure out what this is all about. I just tried it from a friend’s facebook account and we could NOT see anything but the group logo and the link to request to join.</p>
<p>MOWC - were you signed in under your name? and not your friends?</p>
<p>We signed in under the friend’s name who is not a CC member.</p>
<p>Mommusic, out of curiosity, I googled my name plus the word “facebook,” and nothing came up at all. I’m not sure why!</p>
<p>Also, you can adjust your privacy settings on facebook to prevent your name coming up on any kind of search, whether through google or the search function on facebook itself.</p>
<p>If you go to “settings” on your home page, and then to “privacy,” you’ll see the following choices:</p>
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<p>I am one person who PM’ed MOWC to let her know I could see the group list. If you want me to test this again if you are able to make any changes, or help with any other way of narrowing this down, just shoot me a PM. I am not “facebook friends” with anyone in the group. I am in a couple networks, but none in common with MOWC from what I can see from her name in the group membership list.</p>
<p>I’m still a relative facebook noob.</p>