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.
1/2
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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@cornered
I'm sure that's the case for some of them.
never had any SM other than this one....but have been specifically following this info about that factt that FB does this for years and have been warning family and friends only to get meet with "meh's" and "so"? I don't think people really understand how deep and intrusive this really is. It is fucking Meta!
@voltronic
Here's an odd thought...
Would ISPs running a VPN hide this info?
@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
@voltronic For a background screening related to my work, I was asked to confirm who I knew from a collection of individuals. I was shown a collection of photos and had to pick. Some of them were odd, like relatives of my sister-in-law whom I'd only met and interacted with a few times.
I haven't had Facebook for over a decade but all the photos shown to me looked like they were pulled from FB or some sort of SM profile.
I hope mine didn't come up....deny it if it does....😬 😜 🤷♂️ 🤣
@killagator @voltronic Haha, I'm not sure what would have happened if I denied knowing them. I imagine I would've been given a few other chances with a couple other rounds of photos. But I had no SM link with them or anything. I'd met them yeah but didn't even have their numbers, still don't. I guess it was just assumed thru them being related to my sister-in-law, and there are probably photos on FB of all of us at the wedding. Even though I deleted I'm sure they internally maintain a profile
@damselfly59 Haha! I didn't think of it that way, that's funny. Interestingly per the second one, I hadn't even started in the industry yet. To me it felt as though it was mixing my expected image of myself career-wise and my personal sense of self/internal stability, which I don't think necessarily should be conflated within the context of which they were asking me to rank. A lot of these psych/IQ tests are disputed, whichever way at least I passed
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@killagator @voltronic
@voltronic those other people may have you in a contact list or have searched for you.