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To: upchuck

I saw this coming when I signed up for FB and never gave them my real name, phone number or date of birth. The only thing they have on me is an email address that also has false info.


85 posted on 04/20/2018 4:56:20 AM PDT by 50mm (.. / -.. .. -.. / - .... .. ... / ..-. --- .-. / -. --- / .-. . .- ... --- -. .-.-.-)
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To: 50mm

That’s great but - for the most part they are completely uninterested in that information.

That’s not the product.

The “product” is all the stuff you do on other websites. Stuff you buy. Places you visit. Other Social Media and Forum activity. Your ISP. (and here’s where they will know who you really are) That’s the data they aggregate - your name isn’t really that important.

Facebook will likely know that you are using aliases - and that itself becomes a piece of demographic data.

“People who use aliases and fake personal info” becomes a dataset.


87 posted on 04/20/2018 5:15:03 AM PDT by GG-1
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To: 50mm
I saw this coming when I signed up for FB and never gave them my real name, phone number or date of birth. The only thing they have on me is an email address that also has false info.

Me too. If you see anything on FB from Phyllis Anderson, that's me. Except you prolly won't. Other than registering a totally fictitious person, I've never logged into FB. ZUCK SUCKS!

90 posted on 04/20/2018 10:10:13 AM PDT by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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