Anonymous Facebook Attacks Begin at 9 AM
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Also, Facebook users have opted in to Facebook, and its data storage "tactics". If you aren't happy with it, then don't opt-in. As a 16 year old kid, I'm not missing out on anything important. My relationships, social life and life is still intact, despite not being part of Facebook.
There may be some who argue that people opt-in to Facebook don't know about it (certainly my teachers do). Let me say that complacency isn't an excuse. Only you are to blame if you sign up to some business offering you a $100,000 loan for 0% interest without considering and researching the possible repercussions.
It's your data. Facebook is free for you, but it obviously costs them money (without even considering the cost of technology, there's hiring employees). They have to recoup that somehow, and effectively to keep all your friends, your friends and your friends' friends' friends on it.
Disclaimer: I do have a Facebook account that I use to sign up to services that require that I have a Facebook account, like my school's gaming club, but there's no activity on it.
Not always.
Facebook stores data of people that are not even members, using tricks to make their real-world friends submit that kind of data. Upload you mobile phone contacts, find people from you Gmail address book on Facebook, etc.
So Facebook may well have lots of data about you, even though you do not have an account or any knowledge of that profiling.
(OpFacebook is stupid anyway)
It's still, nevertheless, far less than what people put on Facebook themselves. It might be comparable to me asking my friend about this person I saw the other day. Her friends are giving me that information. Though, as the person, I wouldn't appreciate my information shared, it's something that happens often in the real world, not just Facebook.