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The best way to handle the advent of this information is to treat your public facebook profile as public information and assume even the creepiest stalkeriest guy on the internet has access to it. Cause they do.
Something similar happened to me on Facebook. There was someone I was meeting in real life but we had absolutely no FB connections. No mutual friends. And I didn't even know she was on Facebook. Suddenly I saw her on my 'Suggested friends' list. The only reasonable explanation is that she found me on Facebook and viewed my profile. Facebook saved the incident and suggested her to me as a friend. Facebook forgets noth…
> The only reasonable explanation is that she found me on Facebook and viewed my profile. Facebook saved the incident and suggested her to me as a friend. This. I had something similar happen a year or two ago; I enrolled in a course at a local university, and about midway through the semester Facebook suggested that I friend the instructor. I was friends with no one else in the course, had never posted about the cou…
Something similar happened to me on Facebook. There was someone I was meeting in real life but we had absolutely no FB connections. No mutual friends. And I didn't even know she was on Facebook. Suddenly I saw her on my 'Suggested friends' list. The only reasonable explanation is that she found me on Facebook and viewed my profile. Facebook saved the incident and suggested her to me as a friend. Facebook forgets noth…
Export your Facebook data and check out they keep your message history with everyone forever.
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My theory is that if you use the mobile app it factors in GPS location. Several times I've been at a particular venue, without "checking in" or even posting. The next day, people I met at the venue would show up in my suggestions list.
I can somewhat confirm that Facebook at least collects this data. Using rooted android you can make a seperate permission dialog pop up every time an app tries to access certain APIs. Despite having all GPS related features of Facebook and its messenger disabled, the Facebook Messenger app tries to access my GPS location at seemingly random times.
This is troubling, and goes against the Play Store's terms and conditions for app developers. I suppose Facebook gets a pass on it through some unspoken agreement with Google, though.
I think this goes well beyond that. I've had FB suggest neighbors to me even though we have never exchanged emails or friends etc.
Google in particular creeped me out with this kind of "feature". A few years ago when I still used an Android phone, I changed jobs but didn't change the information in any of my social media profiles, nor in my contact card on the phone itself. After a few weeks, Google Now started giving me drive times to work at the new work address instead of the old one.
Yeah, I haven't actually used facebook for anything in years, so now I'm deleting my account and I will use a temporary phone for any future situation where I need it. I will also be going out of my way to spread as much FUD among my less tech savvy friends as I possibly can. Go Zuck yourself, Mark.
I'm a casual Facebook user since like 2008, but I never even considered installing any of the Facebook apps on my phone.
Something similar happened to me on Facebook. There was someone I was meeting in real life but we had absolutely no FB connections. No mutual friends. And I didn't even know she was on Facebook. Suddenly I saw her on my 'Suggested friends' list. The only reasonable explanation is that she found me on Facebook and viewed my profile. Facebook saved the incident and suggested her to me as a friend. Facebook forgets noth…
My theory is that if you use the mobile app it factors in GPS location. Several times I've been at a particular venue, without "checking in" or even posting. The next day, people I met at the venue would show up in my suggestions list.
This article doesn't make anything clear - though it attempts to make the suggestion that the different social networks are communicating information about your activities across networks. In reality it seems as tho many of these social networks are actually just using very similar inputs to their people suggestion algorithms (on Facebook to suggest people you might want to be friends with, on dating networks to sugg…
> "What Facebook does and what Tinder does is go through your phone book, upload your phone book and does cross-correlation between your numbers and anyone else's number - and suggest people based on that," he explained.
That seems pretty clear. They grab your WHOLE address book, so there is an established link stored in their database(s) between you and every other person stored on your phone. From there, it's just a matter of graph traversal.
This is one of the reasons I decided I would stick with a dumb phone and why the mobile web (or using the web from phone or tablet) is so ripe for abuse.