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I am not on Facebook. But that doesn't mean that I believe I am not on Facebook. I am pretty sure that Facebook are able to construct most of the shell of me
by buro9 10y ago
I am not on Facebook.
But that doesn't mean that I believe I am not on Facebook.
I am pretty sure that Facebook are able to construct most of the shell of me from fragments provided by less careful friends or just strangers.
I imagine, and do not believe I am wrong, that Facebook have a ghost profile already with photographs of me already associated, some preferences and interests already in place.
A montage almost indistinguishable from the whole, or perhaps in some respects better... have they got to 3d models for their Oculus universe yet?
They probably know my name, am I even a necessary part of that picture? What's missing?
- junto 10y agoAny friends of yours who have installed any FB application will have uploaded your contact details. All FB needs to do is merge all of those profiles of you from each of your friends and they will have a pretty accurate informational profile. Since many people have also added a photo of you to their phone contact entry, FB gets that too. Any time you visit a website that uses an FB Plugin, for commenting or sharing, FB drop a ghost profile cookie against you. If at any point you somehow leak your email address or cell number on one of those sites, they can now tie that ghost profile to a real person, thanks to your friends using FB, even when you don't.
- giancarlostoro 10y agoIt's not just Facebook, Amazon? Google? Microsoft? They all advertise too, and many others. I've deleted my Facebook profile a couple of times, I've only kept it this long for family. I may change that soon enough too. Especially if anyone ever asks me for my password for it that will be the end of that.