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Not quite true for everybody.
The truth is that the plethora of information Facebook knows about you is unfathomable.
That's the crux of the matter right there — nobody normal realizes every click, every website visit, every posted word, every posted picture, every mobile refresh, and every contact in your auto-stolen address book betrays you.
For most people, the betrayal doesn't matter. The local barista/actor doesn't want to understand thousand-dimensional data analyses and what that portends for their future. Mainly, because it doesn't matter for them. Who does it matter for though? Future important people? Assembling massive future corporate blackmail material? Thoughtcrime? Crime by association? Or does none of this matter at all and it's just people bitching about bad dinners, good vacations, and showing unlimited baby pictures?
There's nothing new to be said to us about the evil of Facebook/Google, but normals have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I think this point rings especially true, especially in the light of recent events at PyCon. Social media has vast power to build or ruin reputations, and having all your private information on facebook can give you a larger surface area to attack.
I used to have Facebook but deleted it, because I didn't like the whole concept of people using your online persona against you. Yes, my profile is still in Facebook's database but at least it is no longer immediately searchable/accessible.
And what I'm getting at is I have some friends with anarchist tendencies. Two of them are computer scientists and they had/have no problems voicing their anarchist thoughts on Facebook.
The other person was in the (German) languages field and she would never talk about it nor post anything related to it on her Facebook.
I still don't know where I stand because I travel to and from the US a lot, and feel if they associate me with anarchist stuff this may complicate matters when trying to cross the boarder.
For example, I was going to post a photoquote (I just made that up) with Thoreau and the statement "If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
But I decided not to. Hurrah for self-censorship, brought to you by the gov't.
Normals? Really? Yeesh.
Anyways "normals" care no more about how facebook works or what it does than they do about how Intel's chips work, Ford's engines, or NASA's Mars rover. How it works simply doesn't matter. There's no rabbit hole.
While I very much applaud your interest in data analysis, this is very much an overreach. Even assuming that facebook has as much information about you as you think, there has been no service which is better at predicting what you like than you yourself. Furthermore, I have yet to come across a music discovery service which can predict music that I like when I specifically give it songs that I like.
Furthermore, I would like to point out that facebook only knows as much about you as you tell it. I dont use foursqare, checkins, status updates, instagram, photo uploads, etc; not because of some ideology for privacy, but rather because I simply dont find them useful. I know that I am not the only one like that. Facebook has relatively little information about me. I also do not stay logged in to facebook so the link tracking is also nearly useless.
User accounts that are deleted have all associated user created content and data hard deleted after account is deleted. Additionally, a user deletes content (status updates, comments, etc..) that data is hard deleted.
As additional evidence that you are right, open facebook and look at the ads they are displaying, they are way, way, way off. (currently I am seeing a thermacare ad, I'm not sick, and a car insurance ad, I don't own a car.
Amazon on the other hand pretty much got me to buy a Romba by continuously posting photos of it on all kinds of websites until I just couldn't stand sweeping anymore.
Sorry. Just a little neurotic. Carry on.
> I also do not stay logged in to facebook so the link tracking is also
> nearly useless.
http://www.nikcub.com/posts/facebook-fixes-logout-issue-expl...
> They want to retain the ability to track browsers after
> logout for safety and spam purposes, and they want to
> be able to log page requests for performance reasons etc.Important distinction - it knows as much about you as you and your network tell it.
Is that more than a little creepy? Yes, it is.
Do you really think this the only guy or girl who's tried this?
It's always been creepy.
"Do you really think this the only guy or girl who's tried this?"
How did you get that? He didn't say anything like that. He pointed out that this is creepy. Just because people have been creepy for as long as there have been people doesn't change that.
-- Well, not really. I don't have an account open with them and never have.
Since I'm out of the loop entirely, what have people really gained from using Facebook? The only thing I've heard was reconnecting with old friends (why would I want that?) and mindless browsing. I guess the other thing is that people prefer to use their chat service instead of using text on their phone.
I've of course seen Facebook pages and I've seen some truly amazing social media marketing campaigns on it that are worth studying, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what the appeal is for a person, thus I don't get the quote about it being a necessity. I don't want people holding data about me and I don't want people stalking me. I don't want to have a bunch of "friends" I never met and I don't want to live a life where I "deleted 200 friends." That's nuts and downright frightening.
Facebook scratches that itch in spades. Sometimes in a quite creepy way. But it is insanely entertaining to lots and lots and lots of people.
The fact is that we all change and we all grow apart at some point. Your statement makes me wonder how easy it is to slide into that unhealthy territory where you live in your past, and that is my philosophical issue with it.
So what if I missed out on a high school crush? Chances are she is married and has a kid by now. The real chance is that I see her now and realize she is not that pretty, not that smart, or has the same exact personality that I remember, but now it grates into me. There are other people and experiences hanging around the corner that are more than happy to see the future with me, no matter how brief.
I couldn't care less what my friends in HS had for lunch at the nightclub last night. I could take great photos and make it look like I live in paradise.
Anyway, the point I took issue with is the idea that Facebook is a necessity, and your statement does not prove the case in point at all. Why is it a necessity to look back and wonder? Why is it a need to connect with a large group of strangers? Why is it a need to see what someone you haven't seen for 15 years does for a living? Fine, check because you are curious, but once you check 5 times, you are inching closer to the line of obsession and refusal to let go.
What a staggeringly ironic sentiment, given the context.
And you'll become friendzoned as well.
It's creepy that it's so easy to grab that much information about someone.
Off topic, but now that you mention it, I don't think I've seen a single drinking fountain anywhere on campus in the year I've been working here. An odd observation, but the prevalence of microkitchens with tons of options (including filtered water dispensers) kind of negates the need for fountains everywhere.
This dude faps to code