Facebook Is About To Remove A Setting That Helps Control Who Sees Your Profile

Changes are coming to your Facebook page once again.

The social media giant is taking the last steps to remove an old search setting called "Who can look up your Timeline by name?" which controlled whether or not you could be find your Timeline, the personal page where you post stuff like status updates and photos.

The search setting was automatically removed last year for people who weren't using it. For the small percentage of people still using the setting, they will see reminders about it being removed in the coming weeks.

This is the notification you will see when the setting is being removed:

As a reminder of the importance of privacy on Facebook, the best way to control what people can find about you is to choose the audience of the individual things you share. In short, if you post something as "Public" that means anyone on Facebook can see it. If you post something as "Friends Only" that means only people you are friends with on Facebook can see it. And so on. It's very important to pay attention to these settings when posting new photos, status updates, etc. to Facebook.

In the coming weeks, people who are sharing posts publicly on Facebook will also see a notice reminding them that those posts can be seen by anyone, including people they may not know.

The notice reminds people how to change the audience for each post. Click on "Public", shown below, which will allow you to choose who sees your update.