That's why I am getting more and more reluctant to share anything. It's starting to be impossible to predict how your data will be used and what is private and what isn't.
Facebook recommended that a psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Effective social nonexistence? Come on. As someone who does not use Facebook and Twitter, yet miraculously has an active social life, I find your dichotomy to be false.
That's great. As someone who also does not use Facebook and Twitter, and saw the result this had on the social life he'd enjoyed before they rose to such preeminence in the field of mediating human social interaction, I find your experience to be lacking in universal applicability.
Just so I understand: You're saying you used to have a robust social life, but now somewhat less so, because the people you used to interact with will no longer do so outside of Facebook and Twitter? I don't want to sound harsh, and maybe I'm just too old, but it seems kind of incredible to me. You can't just call them up or E-mail them?
Re: Facebook recommended that a psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
#113> Facebook and the other companies in the Facebook family also may use information from us to improve your experiences within their services such as making product suggestions (for example, of friends or connections, or of interesting content) and showing relevant offers and ads. [whatsaap privacy policy] Many possibilities here: 1 - whatsapp connection with messages exchanged 2 - contact list loaded by whatsapp 3 -…
Or 10 people checked psychiatrist’s facebook profile, facebook found common interest, saw that none of these people are fb friends and suggested to become friends, because hey, you all have something in common, you are all interested in this person.
Yes, I believe this is what happened
Fb will suggest you know person X if a) you looked at person X's profile or b) person X looked at your profile
Re: Facebook recommended that a psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
#114I wonder if there is an open WiFi access point in the vicinity. I noticed that I had several coworkers suggested as friends shortly after I connected my phone to the office WiFi.
It makes sense that people using the same access point or connecting to Facebook from the same external IP would likely know each other.
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#115This is a real problem. My sister is a legal clinic domestic violence attorney, and apparently there are concerns about DV clients unwittingly friending their legal clinic advisors, not realizing that by doing so they're outing themselves to their abusive partners.
Re: Facebook recommended that a psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
#116I wonder if there is an open WiFi access point in the vicinity. I noticed that I had several coworkers suggested as friends shortly after I connected my phone to the office WiFi. It makes sense that people using the same access point or connecting to Facebook from the same external IP would likely know each other.
It's quite an assumption that they would want to 'friend' each other on facebook or even be presented with another's facebook profile.
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#117"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Granted, that's Schmidt, rather than Zuckerberg. The attitude seems to be the same, though.
I normally reply to people who cart this argument out: "so you're ok with someone following you around with a camera videoing you? At work....in the toilet....in the bedroom...?" Privacy != doing something wrong.
A much clearer example is this article: "Going to a doctor for a mental health issue".
Re: Facebook recommended that a psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I do miss the social life I had a few years back, and which opting not to sign up for Facebook cost me You don't know if it was "opting not to use Facebook" that lead to decline in your social life, because you didn't test whether "being on Facebook" would not have lead to decline in your social life. (I've seen many articles that state exactly the opposite - that people who have less social interactions spent more…
Actually, I do know. Rather than rehearse again the means by which I know, let me refer you to the two most recent times I've done so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12009198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12362818 (Maybe it's necessary to point out that I'm aware of the possibility that all the apologies I ever received on this subject were lies. I'm aware of the possibility that all the apologies I ever…
One metaphor that comes to mind is that of an employer asking for the same data (personal email credentials). I'm sure some people may (to their detriment) comply with such a request while others would not. Some may be so offended that they would quit immediately or start looking for a job elsewhere.
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#119She lives in a small town, she specializes in treating a small subset of that population. It is quite possible the patients were recommended as friends as coincidence, not having anything to do with her.
"Most of her patients are senior citizens or people with serious health or developmental issues, but she has one outlier: a 30-something snowboarder. Usually, Facebook would recommend he friend people his own age, who snowboard and jump out of planes. But Lisa told me that he had started seeing older and infirm people, such as a 70-year-old gentleman with a walker and someone with cerebral palsy."
One outlier hardly establishes a pattern, it is still reasonable that the connection to Lisa had nothing to do with these suggestions, and that there was something else in play.
Re: Facebook recommended that a psychiatrist’s patients friend each other
#120"People You May Know is based on a variety of factors, including mutual friends, work and education information, networks you’re part of, contacts you’ve imported and many other factors,” said the spokesperson by email. “Without additional information from the people involved, we’re not able to explain why one person was recommended as a friend to another."
Facebook is full of shit. Of course they are using locations, why else would I get suggestion to friend the guy that cuts my Mother in Law's yard - he stops by for a check from my wife.