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> Suppose I go to a restaurant, and I booked using my name and phone number. The restaurant sends that data to Facebook to say "Terence Eden ate at this restaur

> Suppose I go to a restaurant, and I booked using my name and phone number. The restaurant sends that data to Facebook to say "Terence Eden ate at this restaurant on this day." Do I read this correctly that a restaurant will just dump its complete visitor log to FB and then let FB "sort it out". Meaning that FB gets to vacuum the info on everyone including those without FB accounts?

eli 7y ago
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/155437961572700?id=565900110447546 https://www.facebook.com/business/help/155437961572700?id=56...
- Jerry2 7y ago
  Why are all these companies giving data to FB? What are they getting in return? I've looked at this page and they don't mention benefits to businesses at all.
  - orhanhh 7y ago
    I assume they are able to target these users with advertisements (by paying Facebook money..)
  - notatoad 7y ago
    >"see your results in Events Manager and Facebook ads reporting." businesses want to see if their ads are working. by uploading their visitor records, they can get reports of how many people who saw their ads visited the restaurant.
  - rhizome 7y ago
    Better placement in search and greater reach with posts, I'm sure. That's pretty much all FB can use to trade without displaying a currency sign anywhere.
  - nsx147 7y ago
    FB has an analytics platform that businesses can use - like a mixpanel/amplitude/google analytics. https://analytics.facebook.com https://analytics.facebook.com
  - dillondoyle 7y ago
    well the PII is hashed so FB wouldnt gain any contact info they didnt already have. But it's definitely still valuable to know purchase/behavior
notyourday 7y ago
This is definitely the case for restaurants that use Yelp and Open Table booking systems.
- hunter2_ 7y ago
  "Open as in beer," if I may.
  - LandR 7y ago
    > "Open as in beer," if I may. What does this mean?
    - sturza 7y ago
      Free as in beer
    - tialaramex 7y ago
      Well, do you want to drink an open can of beer? You go into a bar, you order the IPA you liked someplace else, you see they've got a heap of cans... the bartender reaches under the bar and hands you... an open can. No right? You don't want that one. Why the hell is it open?
    - tW4r 7y ago
      I understood it this way: OpenTable sounds like it would be open-source, but it appears that it isn't I think the parent comment to yours made a sarcastic take using a variation of the popular ambiguity Free as in Beer [1] that usually differentiates between free as 0 cost and free as freedom as a reaction to the OpenTable software being free to use rather than open-source [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
      - hunter2_ 7y ago
        Heh
  - code_duck 7y ago

eli 7y ago

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/155437961572700?id=565900110447546 https://www.facebook.com/business/help/155437961572700?id=56...

Jerry2 7y ago
Why are all these companies giving data to FB? What are they getting in return? I've looked at this page and they don't mention benefits to businesses at all.
- orhanhh 7y ago
  I assume they are able to target these users with advertisements (by paying Facebook money..)
- notatoad 7y ago
  >"see your results in Events Manager and Facebook ads reporting." businesses want to see if their ads are working. by uploading their visitor records, they can get reports of how many people who saw their ads visited the restaurant.
- rhizome 7y ago
  Better placement in search and greater reach with posts, I'm sure. That's pretty much all FB can use to trade without displaying a currency sign anywhere.
- nsx147 7y ago
  FB has an analytics platform that businesses can use - like a mixpanel/amplitude/google analytics. https://analytics.facebook.com https://analytics.facebook.com
- dillondoyle 7y ago
  well the PII is hashed so FB wouldnt gain any contact info they didnt already have. But it's definitely still valuable to know purchase/behavior

notyourday 7y ago

This is definitely the case for restaurants that use Yelp and Open Table booking systems.

hunter2_ 7y ago
"Open as in beer," if I may.
- LandR 7y ago
  > "Open as in beer," if I may. What does this mean?
  - sturza 7y ago
    Free as in beer
  - tialaramex 7y ago
    Well, do you want to drink an open can of beer? You go into a bar, you order the IPA you liked someplace else, you see they've got a heap of cans... the bartender reaches under the bar and hands you... an open can. No right? You don't want that one. Why the hell is it open?
  - tW4r 7y ago
    I understood it this way: OpenTable sounds like it would be open-source, but it appears that it isn't I think the parent comment to yours made a sarcastic take using a variation of the popular ambiguity Free as in Beer [1] that usually differentiates between free as 0 cost and free as freedom as a reaction to the OpenTable software being free to use rather than open-source [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
    - hunter2_ 7y ago
      Heh
- code_duck 7y ago