Never used it. Or Twitter, or any of the others.
F_Book should pay people to use it.
They bribe the politicians big-time to try to keep that from being a legal requirement.
We will get there—they will be exposed and they will have to pay—hopefully with big-time jail and fines.
Same if you watch TV, listen to the radio, use public transportation, or read 90% of the for profit websites. That’s life.
Facebook/Twitter and other social media is why NSA has/is building that huge storage facility in Utah.
How did Zucker**** become a billionaire?
He has sold Facebook users’s profiles after data mining it to the highest bidders.
These stories and responses always seem to overlook, ignore and/or deny the widespread use of browser extensions (and now adblockers for mobile devices).
Adblock, Ghostery, NoScript, Facebook Purity, the list is long and growing.
The reality is that social media sites can be used but with the user retaining as much control over site behavior as he likes. 98 points of data or 980 points - if the user never sees the so-called targeted ads it’s all for naught.
Facebook is Evil!
Their collected date, combined with what Google collects about you, really gives someone all they need to know about you.
A side note, a women told me she was talking on her cell phone to a friend about a product and when she got on facebook, that product was being bombarded on her screen...
Makes one go.... Hmmmmm..
And I am convinced that if the Facebook app is on your iPhone, it uses the mic to listen in — after having talks with friends, a mysteriously appropriate ad relating to our discussions will “magically” appear....
Glad I’m not on it.
The same is true at the same or a slightly lesser degree when you use -- Google, Twitter, Instagram, Yahoo!, your Internet provider, your cell phone service provider, etc.
Deleted ALL my photos, changed ALL my account & contact info, then deleted my account. They don’t make it easy, but you CAN leave the cult of FB with your life intact...
Facebook knows nothing about me since I’ve never had an account with them, and never will.
I have FB so i can play Words With Friend. But i sure wish they would stop taking pictures of me in my underwear!
I play with them.
I often enter random cities and speak of travel (and soon an ad appears related to that)
Facebook is tied in with google, so if you do a google search ads will appear on what your search
I will do random and opposing searches.
They want people to tag photos so they can use their photo id - I tag my name to various people (and objects, if it looks like a face you can name it).
There is really nothing new with what facebook and google and thousands of other sites are doing. They gather information on the eyeballs. With computers they are just more efficient. But the rule still is GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT.
I hate to inform all my freeper friends that say they do not use facebook or twitter, it does not matter. I suspect that while FreeRepublic does not gather and keep information, there is nothing to stop a third party from doing so.
Add to that the fact that while you may not be putting anything on facebook, your friends and family most certainly are and so like it or not, they have you in their data base.
If you combined all the data collected on me thru google and FB and designed product ads to sell to me, you would go out of business very quickly.
The first glaring piece of meta-data they would discover is that this person doesnt buy anything that we advertise to him, EVER.
Facebook is another one of the Governments baby’s that is spawned to glen voluntary information from unsuspecting participants. FB gives police and government intelligence agencies worldwide precise information on users. Imagine how much work it would have taken the KGB to keep these kind of tabs on citizens....
OK folks. For those newcomers to the internet: Anything you post, upload or send in email, is available to anyone who wants it. Forever.
This was demonstrated to me in 1995 by the friend who first introduced me to the internet and helped build my first web site. During the late nineties, as a sales and marketing exec, I learned of emerging technology that tracked internet activity to facilitate targeted advertising. It is the digital age version of Nielsen ratings; a tool for marketers to use to get the most from their advertising dollars. (Christmas tip: get on your wife’s computer or phone and search fly fishing gear, outboard motors etc. She’ll get the hint.)
The internet only knows what you tell it; have you told the internet about your guns? Your SHTF getaway plans? How you plan to get rid of the neighbor’s noisy dog or that you have booby trapped your campaign yard signs? Where you go and what you do on the internet is no secret. It is like living in a small town where people know you like fishing and are constantly suggesting this fishing lodge or that rod and reel; and everyone will know if you walk into the adult bookstore and come out with a plain brown wrapped package; and anyone who wants to can read your mail.
Seriously. You really should have figured this out by now.
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I don’t do Facebook or Twitter but google does it, chrome does it, phone apps, the grocery store does it when you give them that prefered customer number it’s everywhere.
There’re out to get your wallet or put you in jail, first one, then the other.
We be doomed.