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Not a big surprise... I had a Facebook profile years ago and had to create a fake profile some years later. Needed to add my phone number for access tokens etc

by featdd 8y ago

Not a big surprise... I had a Facebook profile years ago and had to create a fake profile some years later. Needed to add my phone number for access tokens etc. and somehow the moment I saved my number all my old friends and family members showing up as friend suggestions I think that even careful people on the internet would be disgusted when they could having an unfiltered look in the "real" data Facebook tracked about them

newscracker 8y ago
> Needed to add my phone number for access tokens etc. and somehow the moment I saved my number all my old friends and family members showing up as friend suggestions This could also be because one or more of your contacts (likely more) provided permission for the FB app to access their contacts/address book (and never revoked that permission, allowing Facebook to always have a current social graph) or were using pre-6.0 (Marshmallow) Android that didn't even have granular permissions requested at runtime (so apps could be installed only if the user accepted to provide all permissions that apps wanted, which for Facebook included contacts, photos, SMS and more).
TACIXAT 8y ago
Your friends and family members shared their contacts. So they had friend -> your number. Then when you enter your number it can back step that to your friend. With just a few connections like that they can suggest all those friends' mutual friends.
zwaps 8y ago
Many have similar experiences, but let me quote facebook directly "When the person visiting a webs ite featuring Facebook’s tools i s not a registered Facebook user, Facebook does not have information identifying t hat individual, and it does not create profiles for this individual. " So, I wonder: Is facebook triangulating you based on contact information from other users, or are they deceiving the senators in this response?
- netsharc 8y ago
  Is "profile" defined at the beginning of this document? Sounds like a lawyer worked on the document and said "A profile is defined as bla bla bla" (e.g. a description of the person accessible by other public users). And someone's ad profile is... something else. FB probably would just have a classification of this person, e.g. where they stand on the left-right spectrum, how much they like particular things (e.g. cars, fashion, travel), their income level..
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by featdd 8y ago

newscracker 8y ago

> Needed to add my phone number for access tokens etc. and somehow the moment I saved my number all my old friends and family members showing up as friend suggestions This could also be because one or more of your contacts (likely more) provided permission for the FB app to access their contacts/address book (and never revoked that permission, allowing Facebook to always have a current social graph) or were using pre-6.0 (Marshmallow) Android that didn't even have granular permissions requested at runtime (so apps could be installed only if the user accepted to provide all permissions that apps wanted, which for Facebook included contacts, photos, SMS and more).

TACIXAT 8y ago

Your friends and family members shared their contacts. So they had friend -> your number. Then when you enter your number it can back step that to your friend. With just a few connections like that they can suggest all those friends' mutual friends.

zwaps 8y ago

Many have similar experiences, but let me quote facebook directly "When the person visiting a webs ite featuring Facebook’s tools i s not a registered Facebook user, Facebook does not have information identifying t hat individual, and it does not create profiles for this individual. " So, I wonder: Is facebook triangulating you based on contact information from other users, or are they deceiving the senators in this response?

netsharc 8y ago
Is "profile" defined at the beginning of this document? Sounds like a lawyer worked on the document and said "A profile is defined as bla bla bla" (e.g. a description of the person accessible by other public users). And someone's ad profile is... something else. FB probably would just have a classification of this person, e.g. where they stand on the left-right spectrum, how much they like particular things (e.g. cars, fashion, travel), their income level..

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