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Re: More than six million Americans have come out on Facebook

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Post by jgroszko » Fri, Oct 16, 2015, 4:15 PM UTC

tajen wrote: post #8

I came out on Facebook, after telling my 20 most important friends in person. I didn't set my preference to "gay", I just wrote it in a picture, in the hope that Facebook itself would have a harder time registering this information. Therefore I don't think I qualify for their stats. From my experience the guesstimate of 10% people being gay is close to the truth, so Facebook is missing 30m gays in the US... Concernin…

There was a bunch of research when Facebook started becoming big around what could be determined just from who your friends are. Basically, Facebook can already figure it out based on who your friends are, even if you didn't check it off in their interface.

Re: More than six million Americans have come out on Facebook

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Post by hellbanner » Tue, Oct 20, 2015, 9:15 PM UTC

herbig wrote: post #16

hellbanner wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook isn't always supportive of life circumstances: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/564493676910603

This is Facebook's inmate account report page. For me, it was hidden if you're logged into Facebook, with a message that says: "This form is for people who can't log into their accounts, but it looks like you're logged in." This makes it essentially unsharable. Facebook is garbage, I'm ashamed I'm actually still on there.

Well, it's not too late to sign off :)

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