No, I’m serious. Who the hell are you people and what do I do with you?

rumandmonkey.com

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There's a key point here:

> Facebook provides detailed demographic information to site owners, using the profile details of people who didn’t log out of their site and happen to stop by our site.

What about those who have logged out of FB, or don't have a FB account. They don't get counted (EDIT: along with the "tech savvy" who block such things, as kuratkull pointed out).

What percentage of site viewers is that? How do we tell?

Secondly, if one puts up a site to serve a particular group, and others end up viewing the site, does that give one an obligation to serve these others? Is it necessarily even a good idea to do so?

I'm wondering whether this matches with the geolocation data that their non-Facebook statistics mechanisms are reporting. Are Facebook's more—or less—accurate than other options out there? Has anyone seen any studies or data of this?

This is absolutely true: the key demographic for Rum & Monkey is 14-year-old Indonesian teenage girls.

Thank you, you are key to making our days in the call center go by quickly.

-- Aditya

Tech savvy people may also use the Priv3, adblocks and noscripts.

ya they probably also disable the facebook platform in their account settings.

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