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Putting something on Facebook means giving it to a company you're not paying and you certainly have no contract with to securely and privately store your data.
by onemorepassword 14y ago
Putting something on Facebook means giving it to a company you're not paying and you certainly have no contract with to securely and privately store your data.
So you can safely much assume anything you put on there can be made public or at least shared with others at any given time without your consent. The model can change at any time, and of course there is that lovely incentive called "profit".
Handing over any data to Facebook and expecting it to remain "private" is extremely naive.
- superuser2 14y agoOf course, this is also true of your ISP, your cell carrier, your email provider, and every electronic communications system ever (except GPG). Facebook has no more reason to sell your messages and status updates than they do, and ad targeting does not cause your data to leave Facebook's servers.
- niggler 14y ago"ad targeting does not cause your data to leave Facebook's servers." What reason is there to believe that facebook wouldn't explicitly allow third parties to pay a fee and see your "private" information"
- superuser2 14y agohttps://www.facebook.com/ads/create/ https://www.facebook.com/ads/create/ Facebook's ad targeting options are out there in the open for everyone to see. This is what you get if you pay Facebook. Where would they advertise your data without getting caught? Are Facebook and your boss part of some special club you've never heard of? And if you were Facebook, would you take that risk? I can't prove that they won't sell my data, but you can't prove that Verizon won't sell your texts, that Google won't sell your searches, etc.