Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think
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#2That's fine. 99% of my status updates are zany jokes/observations anyway. I read somewhere that Facebook will be dethroned soon anyway. Not surprised if that happens. My use has decline precipitously since it was "The Facebook"...
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#4The bigger problem for me is how facebook tracks and identifies even people who do not have a facebook account. They simply infer such a person exists from photograps, contacts and other one sided activity and can start to track that person, tie all this information together and then target them with ads even though they never signed up for Facebook.
Such shadow profiles are a much larger problem to me than people who are happy to fork over their private lives themselves.
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#6The bigger problem for me is how facebook tracks and identifies even people who do not have a facebook account. They simply infer such a person exists from photograps, contacts and other one sided activity and can start to track that person, tie all this information together and then target them with ads even though they never signed up for Facebook. Such shadow profiles are a much larger problem to me than people wh…
Mentioned shadow profiles and some other of their shady practices to an acquaintance recently, he uses fb and wanted to stay in touch using it. He chose not to listen to my critique of fb calling me a "tinfoil hat" (whatever that even means).
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#7This reads like sponsored article for Share Lab, piggy backing off of big data phobia.
>"Facebook has lots of data and we have no idea what they do with it, but here's what the smart people at Share Lab can do with data."
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#8The bigger problem for me is how facebook tracks and identifies even people who do not have a facebook account. They simply infer such a person exists from photograps, contacts and other one sided activity and can start to track that person, tie all this information together and then target them with ads even though they never signed up for Facebook. Such shadow profiles are a much larger problem to me than people wh…
Mentioned shadow profiles and some other of their shady practices to an acquaintance recently, he uses fb and wanted to stay in touch using it. He chose not to listen to my critique of fb calling me a "tinfoil hat" (whatever that even means).
I have acquaintances like that as well. They are usually the "I have nothing to hide" kind of type. :(
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mentioned shadow profiles and some other of their shady practices to an acquaintance recently, he uses fb and wanted to stay in touch using it. He chose not to listen to my critique of fb calling me a "tinfoil hat" (whatever that even means).
I have acquaintances like that as well. They are usually the "I have nothing to hide" kind of type. :(
An easy disarm is "You are confusing privacy with secrecy. It is no secret what happens in the bathroom. It doesn't mean we are going to remove the doors because people still want privacy"
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#10TL;DR: There's no meat in this article, just fluff.