Although Facebook's Graph Search isn't available to most users yet, once it rolls out more broadly, there won't be any escaping it.
That's because, as Quartz points out, Facebook removed the capability to opt out of searches last month, before it announced the new feature. Sam Lessin, a Facebook product manager, confirmed the change to The New York Times in December, saying that only ?a single-digit percentage of users? had opted out when the choice was available. (Of course, with 1 billion users, that still translates to at least 10 million people.)
Search gets personal
Graph Search is an overhaul of Facebook's existing search box. It lets people type in naturally-phrased queries such as ?Restaurants my friends like? and ?Photos of people from college,? and see personalized results.
Graph Search respects the user's existing privacy settings. So, for example, if only your friends can see your photos, no one else will be able to see those photos in their own searches. In other words, Graph Search isn't showing any information that people otherwise wouldn't be able to see.
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