4 ms·
> In 2007, we launched the Facebook Platform with the vision that more apps should be social. Your calendar should be able to show your friends’ birthdays, your
by fortythirteen 9y ago
> In 2007, we launched the Facebook Platform with the vision that more apps should be social.
Your calendar should be able to show your friends’ birthdays, your maps should show where
your friends live, and your address book should show their pictures. To do this, we enabled
people to log into apps and share who their friends were and some information about them.
Anyone who was in a FB sales meeting when OpenGraph was launched knows this is a very calculated understatement. I've heard them explicitly sell the information of an entire user's friends list to anyone willing to pay.
- ebikelaw 9y agoThis is really the key thing to understand why FB is so much more evil than the other companies it is often lumped together with. They don't just use your data to target ads. They will literally just sell your data to anyone who waves a dollar under their noses.
- manjushri 9y ago>I've heard them explicitly sell the information of an entire user's friends list to anyone willing to pay. So does FB actually sell data to third parties? I've seen many on here say that is not the case.
- squeaky-clean 9y ago> I've heard them explicitly sell the information of an entire user's friends list to anyone willing to pay. Source? If this were true and they'd do it for anyone willing to pay, where can I give them money for user's personal data?
- methodover 9y agoThere is no source, because it's bullshit. FB has never sold access to their API. Access to the friend's data permission, like all other permissions, was free.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]