With Facebook getting a lot of backlash lately, only a fraction of what I brought up in my post yesterday about the company, it seems like the perfect time to ask this question as it seems so many users have started to notice lately the way it stalks and saves your data to use it against you.
Checking the r/technology subreddit today I can understand why the company lose over $50b in stock evaluation over the weekend.
Like I've said many times before, the giant media companies that all rely on advertisement seem to slowly dig their own grave. All fueled by greed and using their userbase for their own profit. It is like they will be a big reason the new web powered by blockchain will be so successful in the future as it is pushing more and more people looking for alternatives.
There was a similiar thread on Reddit with this question today and in the post I wrote yesterday there were also many users mentioning the creepy things Facebook does such as marketing items to you that you have recently browsed for or even talked about in voice with others. Suggesting certain people for you to befriend that you've recently happened to meet or get to know has also been one of the things people have noticed.
The amount of information they save about you and sell is very, very scary.
We are in for some interesting times in the near future.
Steemians, what is something Facebook has suggested that creeped you out recently and made you aware of how much they know?
Owk I think this happnes to be one of the creepiest. Owk I happned to meet an old time friend at a bar and we got talking about a whole lot of stuffs . We talked about our social media life and how wev been able to utilize it for our own benefits. I use social media for fun but the guy is into interior designs and so he uses social media for his adverts .
Before we departed, he asked for my Facebook username and I gave it to him. When I got hom , I saw his friend request and other suggestions and that's where I got scared. Facebook suggested about 10 feinds I have known for a very long time but lost contacts with. People I never knew I would see or contact again and I was shocked. Could they have pulled the data when the guy went me the friend request? How did they know he was an old friend for them to start suggesting old friend for me to follow? It's kinda creepy but I just overlooked it till now.
Another thing Facebook does that creeps the hell out of me is sending friends request and accepting friend requests on my behalf. Sometimes I just log into Facebook and see that my friend request has been sent successfully and I am like what the heck?
Facebook actually infringes on peoples privacy and I think it's time people speak out about this
Am really surprised to hear that Facebook have sent or accepted a friend request on your behalf. I know a lot of shitty thing Facebook do but sending or accepting friend request on someone behalf is out of it.
I don't think this was done by Facebook, it this occurred on your account, I suggest your change you login password and select the log out of all device option as your account might have been hacked.
So apt we all need to unmute and take a stand against this evasion in the name of making money for the already rich
Facebook stalks you trough Whatsapp. A month a go I meet someone new that just moved to my street and he was having some pc issues so I offered him my help and got his phone number to contact him through whatsapp, then a few days later in browsing my Facebook and I find him as a friend suggestion with no friends in common. I only sent him one message, we have no common friends and he just moved to my street, the only thing connecting us was a single message sent tru whatsapp.
Yeah, all apps that belong to Facebook are pretty much Facebook and do the same things.
Scary...
It wasn't a one time thing, it was a routine. This is how it goes.
This happens like everyday and considering the fact that I rejected Facebook sync of my contact, I wonder what else they know apart from my phone contact. It totally creep me out, so I just don't have privacy right over who I meet and whose contact I have in my phone?
For me it was logging into Instagram, for the first time, without connecting to facebook, but it was already suggesting me to follow people that I had as friends on Facebook.
And second but more important:
I stayed in train next to a guy I have never seen before, had a talk with him for about two hours (some people are just friendly) and when I got to my destination, Instagram was suggesting me to follow him!
Do you even believe that Instagram was tracing our phones through GPS and it knew that we stayed next to each other for two hours so we should be friends...
How sick these things can get?
That is really disgusting...
I feel that it is still too late for me, and for us as a population right now. I have already sold my soul to these guys by uploading so much data about me when I was still a kind in highschool and now it simply can't be removed, like my birthday, my real name and other things.
I stopped being active there, just sharing songs right now, so I can pollute it, but as I said, too late... This company will never run out of business, the social media they have built has a lot of money around and can not lose value. They are buying everything which can be bought, like they did with Instagram (and they tried with Snapchat too I guess).
Maybe with Steem it will be a different case, but as the power they have, I don't think these platforms even compare. We still have problems with user retention and many others that we need to solve...
User retention has been one of the major things I've put a lot of time, energy and sacrificed a lot of rewards for in the past through the @ocd group. An analysis showed that over 74% of the authors we have nominated and rewarded with votes and views/followers were still posting and 85% still voting, this analysis was done before the intial pump passed $2.
I wish projects like those would get some more support and delegation than businesses making thousands of rewards through beneficiaries and barely helping retention rates. Oh well.
@acidyo i'm new in steemit.i post my #introduceyourself.can you see and support me!
I know you have made efforts for user base increase, this is a thing that I (and more than sure many others) really appreciate!
Holy lord, this is the worst case I have heard before. Now imagine a scenario where the guy was a known terrorist and was suspected to have met someone on that train. With what you are saying now, it means you sure would be been getting some water boarding torture in an undisclosed facility just because you sat next to someone on a train.
It's pretty disgusting what these companies are doing with our data. And who knows what else they have been digging and selling out for profit.
Personally I was surprised "How can FB be such a dumbass?"
More than once I have bought something online, just to start getting ads for the same, specific product I had just bought.
This hasn't been an issue though, until it was showing ads for a product I bought for my wife. I'm showing off something to my wife and "boom" FB is promoting a product I would never personally use.
Luckily she didn't notice that.
It was around when I was pregnant when I started noticing more "family" and "baby" oriented news, ads and suggestions on Facebook, although I'd done all of my Googling about pregnancy and babies in incognito mode (not logged into any personal account either).
Well, that and all the times I get a push-notification along the lines of "We can't help to notice you're at /---/". Like suuure, I definitely want to share all the times I go to a doctor's office or a public bathroom with all of my "friends". (I get those from both Facebook and Google).
Every time I Google something with my computer that I never use for Facebook I get that exactly same add in my Facebook which I use with my phone. So annoying.
I would say what bothers me the most is any product look at online there is automatically an ad for on Facebook and sometimes directly in messenger hence the reason I’m browsing here much much more than there!
That was when I joined Steemit!
I didn't use Facebook much last year, and I didn't use it at all around November and December. In January, I joined Steemit. Then I met some people and started using Facebook more because I had to organise some communities for content-creation for Steemit and Steemit-related people.
When I used it again in the first week of January, the first thing I saw was a Steemit post ad. Someone had promoted their post and Facebook had thought that it was relevant to me. I shared the screenshot around and haven't ever seen Facebook with the same eyes as before.
I mean, I didn't even mention Steemit because it was my "secret project". Only people I talk to on Telegram knew of this at that moment. I don't even know what led them on it. Is some Steemit service selling info? Are they listening to my devices?
I haven't heard of any Steemit services selling info yet.
Steemit/Busy.org and other Steem apps already have lots of tracking scripts following users so it should not be a surprise that info will leaked to Facebook and others.
See this screen of all the scripts on a random Busy post:
When it started giving me massive amount of ads for cryptos and ICOs.. i have never been so spooked..
Yeah.. Reddit did the same to me based on what subreddits I used the most. :/
Yupp.. they know everything. How do we browse, what do we browse, what are our likes and dislikes, our peaking interest in something.
But its actually our fault, most of us never read Terms and Conditions prior to signing up and just tap “i agree” to move ahead. I am pretty sure that facebook T&Cs include a clause which says that facebook is authorised to access your browsing history, your phone mic, speaker, contacts, messages and right down to toilet paper brand you use..
Same with me, all my ads are about icos and mining companies. On Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, everywhere! at least I use ublock origins to block most of that cheap crap.
Everywhere I go online now Iget ICO ads. Most look scammy too.
I don't have anything to hide. Only a couple of jars with jam in my closet (Can't touch before the next winter).
So there is no difference if they get info or not.
Soon blockchain will eat them though (Not my jars with jam).
As long as the jam stays safe everything will be fine!
I'm always surprised how they offer you products that you just texted about on whatsup.
Scary stuff
Nothing really out of the ordinary but a few weeks ago I saw an update about face recognition. I thought "now im really done with this."
I've had it market Funko products and Pokemon stuff to me over the past several months. Always thought that was a bit fucked since I haven't really looked up either of them on there. It's also recommended me to add people from my old job who don't have any friends in common with me, nor have I ever looked them up on the site. Facebook is just really a very special site.
IDK I think people are being naive when they think their data won't be mined like this. Doubt it will change in the non-blockchain world. The ads are more annoying than anything, sometimes I look at a thing that I don't actually care about and then still get the ads for months thereafter.
It suggested me a group that posts about a manga I always wanted to read and I always forgot about it
Hehe, guess it wasn't so bad that time then. ^^
I wouldn't know as I haven't used Facebook for several months now!
Google advertising is able to do this as well, I had a really bizarre advertisement for feminine hygiene products, which is obviously well targeted to a 30 year old male.
lol, facial recognition gone massively wrong - considering your beard.
''People you might know'' are ALWAYS people I do know.
Well, that's why I have an anonymous facebook account (no real name) and no pictures of mine either! Mark can suck on this. xD
There's a saying ''if you're not paying for a service then you are the product being sold'' .
Dunno, deleted facebook 2 years ago...
Same about 3-4 years ago. Best advice Reddit ever gave me. ^^
Some time ago I tried learning the ropes of 3D modeling by downloading some free software and following some guides and tutorials. Mostly Blender and a bit of Daz3d. Surely, a couple days after that, Facebook started advertising 3D software and tutorials to me, even though I had not contacted anybody who had any experience in the field and I hadn't linked my FB account with anything else. I realize that compared to some of the other comments this is not as creepy, especially since my online activities were traced but it had nothing to do with my actual movements in the outside world, but still, that bothered me.
If Facebook, from the beginning uses the blockchain technology, Facebook was a safer place to keep the information very confidential and you could have compromising conversations without worrying ... but as I said before, Facebook is an easy target for hackers .. and I have been hacked 2 Facebook and if I tell the truth, I prefer 2000 times to use steemit than facebook ...
Great crypto currency post
I love it your every Post
Thanks for sharing......
Lmao, REALLY?
Facebook is a kinda fun social media bringing and bonding people together but sometimes is a total waste of time and resources, thanks to blockchain networks like steemit, we have come to realise this..
That's a really good article. I'd like to make a recommendation.
What happened that really amazed me about facebook was when I went to my sister's high school, I saw one beautiful girl and I started crushing on her that instant but I could not get a chance of meeting her to talk to her. The following day facebook just showed her as a friend suggestion having my sister as the mutual friend. I was so surprised and happy. Till now that girl is still my girlfriend. The story was just awesome.
Karma, that's what they get for blocking Crypto Ads.
Everyone who signed up to use Facebook including myself has opened them selves up for exposure to advertisers and losing privacy ultimately.
They want to protect there user privacy but it turns out they mine data without the owner permission. One more thing, they want transparency but they commit shady crime at the back.
Couldn't have happened to a better blood sucking parasite!
Social media Sights Like steemit are the future!
Mark and the Gangs bleeding cash by the boat load and its glorious!
Zuckerberg loses $5 Billion, as Facebook shares fall into the crapper!
"Facebook shares plunged Monday as the social media giant faced an onslaught of criticism at home and abroad over revelations that a firm working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign harvested and misused data on 50 million members."
"On Wall Street, Facebook shares skidded 6.8 percent amid concerns about pressure for new regulations that could hurt its business model."
source linked here
https://sundiatapost.com/2018/03/20/zuckerberg-loses-5b-facebook-shares-fall/
They know what I'm searching and buying, they know when I've taken new photos. Like You say they know far to much x
I never add the women I meet to my personal FB account. I usually say that I don't use FB and is considered as an anomaly.
Also the settings I had is only friends of friends can search me so with no mutual mutual friends they cannot search for my account.
So here was one girl that I usually just talk through Viber and she said out of the blue that she saw my FB account as a suggested friend and wanted to confirm if it was me. I told her nope it's not and I checked and saw that there was a notification of a friend request from her and from that moment she also popped in as a suggested friend for my account.
Whew dodge the bullet on that one.
Oh I just realised the truth of what you are saying. It has been in front of me all along but because I rarely go on my facebook account, I didn't take note.
I love wristwatches and recently I saw a lovely sports watch with a friend. So I went on Jumia, an online retail site, based I think in my country, and browsed through their catalogues. I didn't pick a particular watch, I just checked prices and specifics about the different one that caught my fancy.
Some few days later, they started advertising wristwatches on my facebook account. I didn't take note of it at all but now that I think on it, that sucks.
It was like..I had fights with a guy who I was talking with everyday and after the fight when we stopped talking Facebook started showing me his activity in newsfeed, literally everything he was posting (and he was a meme fan, he could share like 20 posts in a day but Facebook was showing me each one of them) also bringing him on the right side where is the chat, on top of it, since while we were talking he wasn't even appear on that side..it was so damn creepy
Everytime I have searching something on google I get adds on facebook about it targeting me. Nasty :D
People need to get aware of all this going on. Facebook is having every detail about us inside out just because we freely give this Intel out. It's time to keep ourselves from getting monitored by watching what we share on these accounts.
GOOD INFORM
Facebook will suggest me a friend to add, but before i add the person it will be saying do you know the person personally, it sucks sometimes. If i try to add some person i might get blocked, in which i didn't search for the person. It the facebook suggestion that suggest such friend to me
Another one for is the contacts sharing of my phone to facebook which i don't really like.
Bringing contact suggestion and friend suggestion which sucks must i add them
Thanks for sharing this informations.
so I left my facebook :(
I have heard this before from my friend ,his telling me that all blog in the facebook keeps mining data for their some reason,and they sell it for their own,they hiding to us,and they using us .the blogger is actually mining for them,i dont believe it until im joining steemit..the sbd that walk into my wallet right now tells me that the stories is true.this articles make all this make sence.And the last few months facebook owner "Mark zuckerberg" tells that his thinking of paying crypto currency to the facebookuser..and that"s it sucks..i hope this thing will come out soon to the public.thanks for the info
Dude... only 4 days ago I was having coffee with my friends. Cell phones on the table not being used. We were TALKING face to face. Somehow someone made a joke about making money by being a surrogate mother, talked a bit about that and we moved on. I am not a mother, nor do I ever click on motherly or pregnancy related stuff. Well..... I went home, 2hrs later I checked my fb and there it was.... and ADD offering great pay and benefits by becoming a surrogate mother.. That was SO creepy......