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> These machines will know more about you than you do. These machines will decide what you eat, the kinds of clothes you buy, the books you read, the television

> These machines will know more about you than you do. These machines will decide what you eat, the kinds of clothes you buy, the books you read, the television shows you watch, and the kind of person you are. While I very much applaud your interest in data analysis, this is very much an overreach. Even assuming that facebook has as much information about you as you think, there has been no service which is better at predicting what you like than you yourself. Furthermore, I have yet to come across a music discovery service which can predict music that I like when I specifically give it songs that I like. Furthermore, I would like to point out that facebook only knows as much about you as you tell it. I dont use foursqare, checkins, status updates, instagram, photo uploads, etc; not because of some ideology for privacy, but rather because I simply dont find them useful. I know that I am not the only one like that. Facebook has relatively little information about me. I also do not stay logged in to facebook so the link tracking is also nearly useless.

apl002 14y ago
I wonder if facebook archives any of this information? In the past I was very active on facebook interacting with my friends during college. However I have now graduated and slowly began deleting myself from facebook because I no longer have a use for it (and I worry about jobs). If I completely delete my profile, i wonder if they still have my information
- JacksonGariety 14y ago
  Absolutely they archive this information. The of the monetizable web depends upon it!
  - Meist 14y ago
    This is actually not true, and has been verified by the Irish Data Commission (http://www.dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Review_Report_21_Sept_2012.pdf http://www.dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Irelan... see Page 44) User accounts that are deleted have all associated user created content and data hard deleted after account is deleted. Additionally, a user deletes content (status updates, comments, etc..) that data is hard deleted.
- neilkimmett 14y ago
  Yep, if you want to see what they have you can download it all: https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/ https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/
wtvanhest 14y ago
> While I very much applaud your interest in data analysis, this is very much an overreach. Even assuming that facebook has as much information about you as you think, there has been no service which is better at predicting what you like than you yourself. As additional evidence that you are right, open facebook and look at the ads they are displaying, they are way, way, way off. (currently I am seeing a thermacare ad, I'm not sick, and a car insurance ad, I don't own a car. Amazon on the other hand pretty much got me to buy a Romba by continuously posting photos of it on all kinds of websites until I just couldn't stand sweeping anymore.
- eightpersimmons 14y ago
  ) Sorry. Just a little neurotic. Carry on.
j_s 14y ago
> I also do not stay logged in to facebook so the link tracking is also > nearly useless. Facebook already got caught leaving trackable info behind even after logout; they still do some tracking. I personally do not believe Facebook will always continue to voluntarily not track me just because I logged out. http://www.nikcub.com/posts/facebook-fixes-logout-issue-explains-cookies http://www.nikcub.com/posts/facebook-fixes-logout-issue-expl... > They want to retain the ability to track browsers after > logout for safety and spam purposes, and they want to > be able to log page requests for performance reasons etc.
dreamfactory 14y ago
> Furthermore, I would like to point out that facebook only knows as much about you as you tell it. Important distinction - it knows as much about you as you and your network tell it.

apl002 14y ago

I wonder if facebook archives any of this information? In the past I was very active on facebook interacting with my friends during college. However I have now graduated and slowly began deleting myself from facebook because I no longer have a use for it (and I worry about jobs). If I completely delete my profile, i wonder if they still have my information

JacksonGariety 14y ago
Absolutely they archive this information. The of the monetizable web depends upon it!
- Meist 14y ago
  This is actually not true, and has been verified by the Irish Data Commission (http://www.dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Review_Report_21_Sept_2012.pdf http://www.dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Irelan... see Page 44) User accounts that are deleted have all associated user created content and data hard deleted after account is deleted. Additionally, a user deletes content (status updates, comments, etc..) that data is hard deleted.
neilkimmett 14y ago
Yep, if you want to see what they have you can download it all: https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/ https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467/

wtvanhest 14y ago

> While I very much applaud your interest in data analysis, this is very much an overreach. Even assuming that facebook has as much information about you as you think, there has been no service which is better at predicting what you like than you yourself. As additional evidence that you are right, open facebook and look at the ads they are displaying, they are way, way, way off. (currently I am seeing a thermacare ad, I'm not sick, and a car insurance ad, I don't own a car. Amazon on the other hand pretty much got me to buy a Romba by continuously posting photos of it on all kinds of websites until I just couldn't stand sweeping anymore.

eightpersimmons 14y ago
) Sorry. Just a little neurotic. Carry on.

j_s 14y ago

> I also do not stay logged in to facebook so the link tracking is also > nearly useless. Facebook already got caught leaving trackable info behind even after logout; they still do some tracking. I personally do not believe Facebook will always continue to voluntarily not track me just because I logged out. http://www.nikcub.com/posts/facebook-fixes-logout-issue-explains-cookies http://www.nikcub.com/posts/facebook-fixes-logout-issue-expl... > They want to retain the ability to track browsers after > logout for safety and spam purposes, and they want to > be able to log page requests for performance reasons etc.

dreamfactory 14y ago

> Furthermore, I would like to point out that facebook only knows as much about you as you tell it. Important distinction - it knows as much about you as you and your network tell it.