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Facebook has a huge geographic database, so the actual problem here is telling people who are genuinely living / are from there from people who are trolling or
by mkl95 6y ago
Facebook has a huge geographic database, so the actual problem here is telling people who are genuinely living / are from there from people who are trolling or simply don't want to disclose that data. If you ask me, this is a non-issue - where I live or where I was born is not Facebook's business.
FB are concerned about the quality of the data they are selling to their customers, if they sell a batch of records / API requests and disproportionate amounts of them have birth places that are small villages with ridiculous names, the value of that data decreases.
- mint2 6y agoI was able to find a ghost town near my hometown to give Facebook. According to Facebook, a few hundred people came from there. If true they’d all be over 90.
- mkl95 6y agoAnd still, tons of small businesses all over the world are using Facebook as an advertising platform and spending thousands of dollars/euros on them. It's a matter of time until enough of them find out the data those ads use to "think" is garbage and we see a #facebookgate or something similar.