Reply With QuoteIt's scary how much they and Google know about us.
Facebook's powerful data mining
I am always impressed at Facebook's ability to recommend familiar faces as friends. Recommending people with mutual friends is obvious, but their data mining goes much further than that.
It has recently recommended a few Miata people to me that I met only once or twice in passing but they wouldn't remember me and have no mutual friends of mine- Bill Cardell, Tom Matano, and Barb Beach. I suspect I must have several fan pages in common with them for Facebook to come up with this.
Today it recommended an old boss to me, of which we have no friends or interests in common. While we both live in the DFW area and list the same employer, that can be said of thousands of facebookers that have not been suggested to me. I know I have never searched for her, and I double checked to confirm she is not in my personal email contact list. Perhaps they found me in her email?
It's scary how much they and Google know about us.
Originally Posted by Nails
They use airplanes to collect the data! Just ask Onething.
Lmao!
Welcome to the world of tomorrow. Everything is interconnected, and nothing is private. Doubleplusungood.
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Just another reason why I'm not on the Book of Faces.
I'm sure a ton of websites do this type of data mining, google seems to be a big offender as well. After our couple of life changing events in recent years we get a ton of related information showing up through email and snail mail like most recently if we get on websites with Google type adds we see a lots of diaper and baby adds. They're often eerily specific, you'd swear our phones were tapped.
My wife was talking about the same thing with facebook as well.
What always amuses me is when friends of mine ask for computer advise and complain about all these nasty porn ads that keep popping up on their pc and in their email, they act like they'd never seen that stuff before. When i've never really had those type of ads on any of my PCs.
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Wait until you guys find out what kinda of data TC is collecting on you...
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But there does seem to be an upside if you use the Facebook - http://www.windsorstar.com/life/surv...490/story.html
But only 38 per cent of women say they have actually slept with a date any sooner because of digital intimacy, according to the 1,200 women and men who participated in the third annual sex survey by Shape and Men’s Fitness magazines.
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/survey+says+social+networking+leads+faster/4163490/story.html#ixzz1CEY7fbyq
Digital intimacy? I don't suppose they're talking about holding hands.
Some of you may already know this, but yestarday the new FB privacy setting "Instant Personalization" went into effect. The new setting shares your data with non-Facebook websites & it is automatically set to "Enabled". Go to Account>Privacy Settings>Apps & Websites>Instant Personalization>edit settings & uncheck "Enable". BTW If your friends don't do this, they will be sharing info about you as well. Please copy and re-post this, thanks.
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Actually the information shared to these third party sites is used so if Facebook members should visit or sign up with them, the sites are `instantly personalized` to that Facebook members own information. And participating sites can only use information that you've made public; they have no access to your private info AND your friends CANNOT share info about you just because they decide not to opt out. Also instant personalization is different then the social plug in.
i'm still using the tin foil hat option and turning it off.....
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Yeah I did too, but what your friends do doesn't affect you.
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