I am finding out personally that Facebook has WAY too much data on people.
I have a FB account solely for reposting important website announcements for an org whose media I manage. I made an account, but other than my name, nothing is filled out. Zero posts, likes, etc. Opted out of all the things you can, and I opted out of as many 3rd-party days sharing firms as allowed. The account exists so I can "manage" this org's FB account.
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I try to be very careful online. I post NOTHING of my personal life online under my real identity.
Yesterday I was making a post on this org's page, and for once I decided to look at the "people you may know" follow recommendations list.
It has a bunch of people related to this org, but it is also filled with my family, friends, and coworkers. It even has people in my community choir. Out of the piles of follow recommendations, there are only a handful I *don't* know personally.
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I realize that FB is geolocating my IP and cross referencing my location against many other data points, but it's still creepy how on-the-nose they are with so many people in my personal life within a 100-mile radius or so.
Again, my account has never been used for any interaction at all, except for accessing the org's page I manage.
This really pisses me off.
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@voltronic
If you have FB on your phone it assumes permission to your contact list and gets that list from there. Back in 2010 it even added the FB contact info and phone numbers to your contact list of FB only friends, which back then I had to make a "dumping identity" for all of those people that I didn't really know or care about.
Recently what irks me is blocking ads in settings appears to be each individual campaign. I know that I've blocked the same companies multiple times