I don't expect anything to Facebook when it comes to privacy.
Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks
Facebook uses location to suggest new friends
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#22I don't understand why people use the Facebook native app at all. Their mobile website works quite well and should avoid many of the issues with the app (location sharing, battery drain, etc).
Facebook recently disabled their messenger platform on the website, when you click the messages tab it brings you directly to the app store to install their app. This means you have to use the App to message people. The app requires such egregious permissions that I absolutely refuse to install it. It's a shame because it worked perfectly in the past.
You could use messenger.com with a desktop user-agent. That site works fine on a phone screen.
Re: Facebook uses location to suggest new friends
#23I don't understand why people use the Facebook native app at all. Their mobile website works quite well and should avoid many of the issues with the app (location sharing, battery drain, etc).
Facebook recently disabled their messenger platform on the website, when you click the messages tab it brings you directly to the app store to install their app. This means you have to use the App to message people. The app requires such egregious permissions that I absolutely refuse to install it. It's a shame because it worked perfectly in the past.
I agree with your assessment of Messages and I also don't have either the FB or Messages mobile app installed.
That said, messages are still working for me in Metal (third party FB app) and in my mobile browser. Even if/when they stop working that way, I figure I'll be able to tick the "desktop mode" box in my mobile browser to set the user agent and get it that way. Barring that I can just check those handful of messages I get via my desktop computer.
I guess I just don't depend on FB messaging for anything important so it's less an issue for me. If someone wants to reach me, they can call or text and Hangouts works fine across mobile and desktop on Android, iOS, Windows, OSX, Linux, etc. for group messaging.
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#24I love it. I've wished this feature implemented for quite some time.
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#25I don't expect anything to Facebook when it comes to privacy.
Well, there are several levels of non-privacy to expect: - Facebook collects data about me - Facebook shares my data with big corporations who want to sell me stuff - Facebook shares my data with my friends - Facebook shares my data with people who aren't my friends For many people, this is a surprising escalation of their expectations. For some, it is outright dangerous.
Because people expect services as robust and useful as Facebook to be free? Based on how much time people spend using their service, the user's data is hardly a large price to pay. Have certain types of things you like, profession, education, gender, demographic and expect your profile able to be targeted (anonymously) with advertising. Share something public (including anything above), expect any corporation to be able to see or mine it.
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#26What if I moved out from a neighbourhood because I had enemies there, we didn't like each other? Now I'm coming back to my parents house and facebook reminds me about them and them about me?
If you have actual enemies, it might make sense to block them on things like Facebook, LinkedIn, etc..
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#27i never use facebook on mobile devices, i have a different "supervised" profile on Chrome for facebook use and nothing else.
i use it because of how many people are on there, but i wont let them snoop on me
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#28I'm not sure if it is either new or surprising.
I did an experiment some 3 years back from within a corporate network -- the difference being that it was done on a desktop, not mobile. The sequence of events was roughly:
- Spin off a new VM
- Create a brand new email address with fictitious identity
- Sign up to Facebook using the newly created fictitious identity
Result: The suggested "friends" were folks in that building (who were on the same network).
(The experiment was performed to demo how creepy such networks are.)
Re: Facebook uses location to suggest new friends
#29I don't understand why people use the Facebook native app at all. Their mobile website works quite well and should avoid many of the issues with the app (location sharing, battery drain, etc).
Facebook recently disabled their messenger platform on the website, when you click the messages tab it brings you directly to the app store to install their app. This means you have to use the App to message people. The app requires such egregious permissions that I absolutely refuse to install it. It's a shame because it worked perfectly in the past.
I've been able to use https://mbasic.facebook.com from an Android device for messaging. Not ideal, but better than installing one of their apps.
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#30Linkedin does this too. It suggested that I connect with an academic copy editor. My only other connection? We sat next to each other at a co-working space. Of course Linkedin was not using geo-location. They must have noticed that we were both on the same network.
> Unsubscribe from LinkedIn
> Delete email account
> Sell house, live in woods
> Find bottle in river
> Has note inside
> It's from LinkedIn
Source: https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617