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I was at a party once with Facebook employees and they were telling stories about how they would spy on who visited who's profiles. They thought it was so funny
by cramsession 6mo ago
I was at a party once with Facebook employees and they were telling stories about how they would spy on who visited who's profiles. They thought it was so funny, they could "tell" who had a crush on who. I deleted my account as soon as I got home. Vile company.
- phyrex 6mo agoThat must have been a long time ago. Nowadays there are a lot of safeguards and that's one of the things that gets you fired right away.
- jnsaff2 6mo agoNowadays when you visit someones profile you show up on their suggested friend list. Creepy or cute, a deliberate information leak.
- em-bee 6mo agoviewing someones profile without them knowing is not creepy?
- hackable_sand 6mo agoIt is creepy, that's what they're saying.
- em-bee 6mo agowhat i understood is that "showing up on their suggested friends list is creepy, and it's an information leak". the way i read that is that they would prefer not to show when someone visited their profile. and that's what i consider creepy.
- nirvdrum 6mo agoAfter getting scammed on Facebook Marketplace, I look at the profiles of sellers, particularly if they don’t have much in way of reviews. That seems more prudent than creepy to me. I’m not stalking anyone and I’m not looking to be their friend. Is there a better way to do seller verification? It does seem like an information leak to me. Craigslist and eBay don’t share my identification as a potential buyer. I don’t love the marketplace being tied to a social network, but it’s what many people are using these days.
- em-bee 6mo agosure, showing up on suggested friends is weird. the way linkedin does it makes more sense: "these people have viewed your profile". i was picking up on hiding it outright. while that may be justified in your case, it's also reasonable to let them know. the only people i would really not want to find out that i look at their profile are spammers and scammers (oh, and stalkers). so both sides have a fair reason. so guess, if you can, choose the social network that works the way you prefer.
- red-iron-pine 6mo agosneaking up to someones house and peeping in theier windows is creepy. or just camping out in front of their window from the street legally. but that person had to put their info into the website, themselves, by choice, and then chose to let their privacy settings be such that others can view them. if you pin your photo up to a cork board, don't be surprised if people see it
- em-bee 6mo agobut the reverse is true too. if you look someone up, don't be surprised if they find out. really, i don't see how that would be a big deal. with more and more illegitimate tracking being done, informing those being tracked seems a benefit, not a drawback. there is a difference however between one institution tracking who all the people are that i am looking at, vs the person i am looking at finding out for themselves who is looking at them.
- kakacik 6mo agoI keep reading same statements here for past 10+ years, every time some similar fuckup @fb happens. Every. Single. Time. 0 trust in that company, 0 trust in its employees.
- eviks 6mo agoYes, in a "never_do_this_or_you_will_be_fired" kind of way
- morkalork 6mo agoTesla employees talk about recordings of people fucking in cars around the watercooler
- unocard876 6mo ago[flagged]
- ryandrake 6mo agoWouldn't surprise me. Everyone clutches their pearls and hits the downvote button as soon as you mention the Zucc quote, but has there really been any evidence that the company culture has matured away from "They Trust Me - Dumb fucks"?
- unocard876 6mo ago[flagged]
- cramsession 6mo agoIt was more than one person and yes, it's vile that they had access to this information and a culture of spying (and joking about it). They also said they could tell how long someone was looking at each image. The whole company is basically perverted spyware, which absolutely makes sense if you know how and why it was conceived.
- hyperhello 6mo agoYou could make that claim about all of public society in some way. Why go anywhere, unless it’s to be spied on and spy on others.
- vachina 6mo agoNo
- guizadillas 6mo agoYou CAN make that claim but it isn't right, not comparable at all
- livinglist 6mo agoAre they able to see these data of whichever user whenever they want with no trails at all??
- cramsession 6mo agoIt certainly sounded like it, or that no one cared about the trails since they thought it was so hilarious.
- burnt-resistor 6mo agoAbsolutely not. I'm no friend of Zucc, but the graph is protected by a permission system that won't show almost anything for employees without a making a request including legitimate business reason, for a limited time and scope, and managerial approval.
- DANmode 6mo agoWouldn’t it be nice if the scope of what you witnessed was limited to that one company…
- actionfromafar 6mo agoWhat other companies have the scope of Meta(-stasis) FB?
- tjpnz 6mo agoHope the host checked thoroughly for missing property after everyone left, because I wouldn't put it past a metamate.