Facebook continues to make the news. This time the social networking site has decided to make the basic profiles of its members open to non-members searchingthe site, and will allow search engines access to the public profiles in its database. This is a major about-face, as Facebook has previously blocked access to member profiles by anyone exceptother members.
However, before you panic about having your information available, the company has emphasized that this is an opt-in service; users can choose to keep their profiles available only to other registered users.
