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"We\u2019ve known that a major privacy overhaul has been in the works for some time at Facebook, and last week a letter from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg let everyone know that changes were imminent.  \nToday, the company plans to start asking all 350 million of its users to review and update their settings as they roll out the new simplified privacy interface.While Facebook\u2019s spinning the changes largely as being about making things easier for users (which is true; the current privacy settings are enormously complex if you care to dive in), it\u2019s also all about encouraging them to share more stuff publicly by letting them choose an \u201Ceveryone\u201D option each time they post something.  \nThat will be key for Facebook becoming as valuable as Twitter in the realm of real-time search, where both are now integrated in Google.  Although it has many times more users than Twitter, to date, most Facebook data remains private and, hence, inaccessible to search engines.  We\u2019ll see how that starts to change after today.  \nSee Also: Facebook's New Privacy Features - A Complete Guide"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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