“”This is what people signed up for.””
Apparently that’s not true if it gathers information from anyone who is just reading from sites that have the FB sign...I don’t sign up for that when I click on links from FR or anywhere else. Perhaps I was late coming to the party but I just found that out this week and I don’t like it one bit. I don’t have anything to do with FB and I sure don’t appreciate being “spied on” under the table so to speak! Does this mean those like me are going to be forced to give up enjoying the internet because of some scoundrel who makes billions intruding on people’s lives?
I still haven’t found out if FB’s symbol on a site is an indication of FB getting in on the act or if it has to have the “like” finger on the site. I think the whole idea of it is juvenile anyway. A friend was defending her use of FB recently when I voiced my opinion of it, is to keep up with friends and family in other countries and I said she could do the same with the phone or email and she insisted “it just wouldn’t be the same. I need to see their pets and their flowers.” Good grief.
If you don’t want to be spied on get off the internet. There is NO privacy on the internet. Never has been, never will be. Everything you do on the internet goes through at least 4 computers you don’t own and can be traced. With cookies and pixels and various other data storage/ sharing tools nothing you do isn’t available to others. It’s a post privacy world, you’re just making data.
FBs symbol on a site means one of two things:
you can login with your FB account
You can share to your FB page
If it’s the later you’ll usually see a bunch of other symbols near it (twitter, reddit, instagram, etc etc) as you can share with them too.
FB is my primary communication tool. Way cheaper than the phone, handier for mass communication than e-mail. Gets the job done.