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That is the good purpose. However, it is computing beneath the surface to try to connect you to people you might want to forget, or actively want to avoid. For example, if your email is in the contacts of a former abusive partner, Facebook knows it, and proposes to that person that he/she become your friend! You have been tracked down!!! Selecting your own friends is one thing; Facebook selecting them, or at least proposing them, is another!It's allowed me to reconnect with people
And I thought I was paranoid!I have several friends who don't even use their real name
falcon269 said:And I thought I was paranoid!I have several friends who don't even use their real name
Abbeydore said:Facebook is not for me; vagabondette sounds like you like it
I'm a person who has few friends, maybe a 1000, but not millions :lol:
Really pleased when their shares tumbled a bit, guess they'll rise soon enough! :roll:
We spend a lot of time thinking about what to post on Facebook. Should you argue that political point your high school friend made? Do your friends really want to see yet another photo of your cat (or baby)? Most of us have, at one time or another, started writing something and then, probably wisely, changed our minds.
Unfortunately, the code in your browser that powers Facebook still knows what you typed—even if you decide not to publish it.* It turns out that the things you explicitly choose not to share aren't entirely private.
Facebook calls these unposted thoughts "self-censorship," and insights into how it collects these nonposts can be found in a recent paper written by two Facebookers. Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have put online an article presenting their study of the self-censorship behavior collected from 5 million English-speaking Facebook users. (The paper was also published at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.*) It reveals a lot about how Facebook monitors our unshared thoughts and what it thinks about them.
The study examined aborted status updates, posts on other people's timelines, and comments on others' posts. To collect the text you type, Facebook sends code to your browser. That code automatically analyzes what you type into any text box and reports metadata back to Facebook.
Storing text as you type isn't uncommon on other websites. For example, if you use Gmail, your draft messages are automatically saved as you type them. Even if you close the browser without saving, you can usually find a (nearly) complete copy of the email you were typing in your Drafts folder. Facebook is using essentially the same technology here. The difference is that Google is saving your messages to help you. Facebook users don't expect their unposted thoughts to be collected, nor do they benefit from it.
How did you keep in touch before Facebook?*liking it* may be a bit of an overstatement. I consider it a necessary evil which allows me to stay in close contact with the people I care about. I have about 250 friends on FB, 25 of which I connect with on a frequent basis.
You may.Falcon may I ask your age ?? attachFull7498
Six years ago, my niece, who is a poet, graduated from high school and I bought her six poetry books at Amazon. When I log in there today, Amazon is still trying to get me to buy poetry.Recently I was eyeing a Ukekle on a shopping site. Within days, images of this instrument, together with an offer to purchase, started appearing on many sites I frequented.
They stop faster if you erase your history and cookies, where that data is stored!However, I resisted and they have finally stopped.
That is an excellent intention, but Zuckerberg won't let it happen. The article is about Facebook capturing things you begin to type, but do not actually post. Facebook continually tracks where you have gone on the internet even when you are not logged in. If you ever click "Like", it is added to your database, and customized ads will begin arriving. Your computer now will begin posting animated ads, running videos without even asking you if you want them. More ad revenue for Facebook. There is no free lunch. You pay a price to keep in touch with family and friends, and watch those cute kitten videos.I do not permit it to use me.
Facebook continually tracks where you have gone on the internet even when you are not logged in.
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