Thanks NYT for pointing me to this hilarious section of Facebook. My hobbies apparently include 'tears', and my only food and drink interest is 'bread roll'.
If my only intake were bread rolls, my hobbies would include tears too!
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#22Apparently my hobbies are Star Trek Vulcans, Old Age, and "Octopus".
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#23For me (non-US) the political interests I found are hilariously inconsistent. - Leftist/communist - Democratic Socialist - Obama - Nationalist - Pirate Party - Workers international
What's inconsistent about them?
I guess the parent found that "Nationalist" was inconsistent with all the rest. As a side note, when the words "nationalist" and "socialist" were used together in the past, things didn't end up very well.
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#24Seems that a good measure for them not gaining much data about you is to keep logging in an incognito window and not liking much.
All the Interests I see are from where I login (mobile phone models, browsers, OS), one Android wrapper app, apps I linked with FB and 1 Facebook page I liked (football club).
Good news, less data FB has on me, more it makes me happy.
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#25Apparently I'm an anticommunist communist liberal freethinking catholic atheist nazi.
Guess I'm going flag shopping.
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#26Apparently I'm on the contact lists of several talent agencies.
Which is odd I would pop out a turtles head in fear if I found myself on stage or in front of a camera.
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#27Is there a way to see what Facebook labels you if you aren't registered on Facebook?
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#28Apparently "Democracy" is one of the ad groups I'm targeted for, along with both "Republican Party (United States)" and "Democratic Party (United States)". Weirdly "In-N-Out Burger" is also listed, despite the fact they don't exist where I live (UK). The suggested ad. preferences are also a little odd - it's almost entirely hip-hop related for no apparent reason (Ghostface Killah/rza/Raekwon/gza/Ol' Dirty Bastard/KRS…
> Weirdly "In-N-Out Burger" is also listed, despite the fact they don't exist where I live (UK).
Heh, how strange. Me too. As well as Filipino politics, some American Football teams and someone called Rupert Neve.
Also my food and drink interests include "Beef".
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#29If I were facebook I would hesitate to make this so visible because I wouldn't want my advertising clients to know how unsophisticated and inaccurate these inferences seem to be.
I know. In my case, they can show me ads for a Sukhoi-24 all they want, I'm not going to buy one. :)
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#30Main takeaway from this: Facebook know much less about me than I thought. Maybe the whole online advertising industry is an emperor's-new-clothes situation.
My favourite bands appear to be Blaise Matuidi (who is a footballer - I don't even know who he plays for though), Kool & The Gang, Kool & The Gang, Kool & The Gang, and Kool & The Gang. My favourite sports entities are Team and Kool & The Gang. Under food & drink I have been correctly identified as a fan of water.
I'm a pretty active Facebook user too, so it's not like they have a death of data.