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by nbm 15y ago
I wasn't much of a Facebook user before joining the company, and using the site more frequently definitely made it obvious that a) I had been missing out on some useful news and b) I was wasting a lot of time on "friends" I didn't really ca
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by nbm 15y ago
I realise this may have been a while ago, but do you remember a particular provision or theme amongst provisions that caused you to do that? When was it? (I work at Facebook, but I'm mostly just asking for my own interest.)
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by nbm 15y ago
https://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=enginee... (A Facebook job advert for Kernel Engineers.) See also: https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/ - a write back persistent block cache for Linux, written by some of the Kern
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by nbm 15y ago
You can read more about how ads work in non-legalese at: https://www.facebook.com/about/ads/ In non-legalese, how Facebook uses information it receives on users: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info#howweuse Th
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by nbm 15y ago
In terms of status updates (ie, stories which may mention check-ins or photos or similar, but not Facebook Messages), before Facebook's Timeline launch, there were multiple stores of data depending on age. With Timeline, all the different
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by nbm 15y ago
> Google and Facebook both collect a lot of private information about their users. But Google makes money by keeping that private data confidential, while Facebook makes money by selling the data. Facebook doesn't sell anyone's data. F
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by nbm 15y ago
Karan from the locations team at Facebook posted a response on Reddit. He said: """ I am an engineer at Facebook working on the Locations team. We use the text entered in the location field of the album by the album owner and match it to t
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by nbm 15y ago
It is probably this: http://www.chron.com/news/article/APNewsBreak-Facebook-aims-... (I work at Facebook, but am not involved in this feature.)
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by nbm 15y ago
> Engineering currently makes up 64 of 402 open positions. There are 64 unique job titles in Engineering (and 56 unique job titles in Technical Operations, which also includes software development job titles), but that represents a lot
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by nbm 15y ago
There's a more specific description about how information from social plug-ins are handled: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=186325668085084 In particular, information from social plug-ins are specifically not used to target ads to user
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by nbm 15y ago
I worked right next to the engineers who developed the login approvals feature, and overheard the discussions that led to this dialog - it was all about making it hard for people to mistakenly lock themselves out of their accounts because t
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by nbm 15y ago
The purpose of the social plugins is to provide social context - telling you which of your friends has liked something, or that you are the first. To do this, it needs to know who you are if you are a Facebook user that has not logged out.
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by nbm 15y ago
How would whatever system that does this discover that the user is or is not logged into Facebook? The javascript portion doesn't have access to cross-domain cookies, so that won't work. Anything else requires connecting to a domain such
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by nbm 15y ago
Unfortunately, I don't feel I'm qualified to represent Facebook on this beyond what I've said (don't want a tech news article/blog post misconstruing something I said into something bad about the company).
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by nbm 15y ago
From what I understand, this is an entirely new permission and is part of the new "Add to Timeline" system. I don't work on that part of Facebook myself, but this is how it was described in the F8 introduction to the system. See also ptarj
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by nbm 15y ago
Obviously Facebook employees talk to each other about when they're being slammed to the degree that we (as a company, and as individuals) have been recently. There's been no rallying cry for everyone to rush to HN - we want to be here and
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by nbm 15y ago
Facebook doesn't require mobile phone numbers to register as a user and maintain a profile. What makes you believe that such a thing is necessary? We also require some additional information from application developers. We do offer a two-f
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by nbm 15y ago
This sounds like it might have been a bug rather than something on purpose. When we introduce something new, we use overlays to help users discover these new features. For example, how to change the privacy of their posts, to tag people,
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by nbm 15y ago
Feel free to contact me as well if you are sure that you didn't authorize them. I am not sure I can help, but I will try. There are only a select few applications that get authorized automatically when you use them (Instant Personalization
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by nbm 15y ago
Existing apps that have been authorized will need to be reauthorized to get any new permissions, so you need not worry about previous apps suddenly doing something that you previously did not agree to. I'll let the guys who maintain that pa
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by nbm 15y ago
The App Settings page will tell you when last you used it, and when last they accessed information (once you click on "Edit"). If you are truly concerned about this happening behind your back (rather than making a comment about how easy it
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by nbm 15y ago
There's no chance that the recruiter contacting you had anything to do with the message you sent. I have some insight into the safeguards in place to prevent any abuse of any access that an individual might have due to the nature of their w
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by nbm 15y ago
There is no widget that shows who has been on the site, and it is not related to using Connect. There is a "Like" widget, which shows who has "Liked" the site.
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by nbm 15y ago
You can set your relationship status to "married" (or "in a relationship") without linking it to a particular person. My mother does exactly that - my father isn't much of an online sort of person.
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by nbm 15y ago
In this case your account probably was not locked, you just needed to provide additional information to log in because something seemed unusual. So if you logged in from a known-good environment (ie, a computer we know you have logged in b
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by nbm 15y ago
There's a process to memorialise the account of a user that passes away - help docs at https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=150486848354038 Here's the form for friends: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=deceased
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by nbm 15y ago
I'd like to suggest that planned leaks that look like this (ie, an employee making a mistake and announcing/confirming a future product) mostly don't make sense for companies of a certain size/maturity/growth/dominance/culture. Companies wa
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by nbm 15y ago
That doesn't sound like anything I've ever seen on Facebook (and, since I work there, I use it a lot). Were you doing anything specific when this happened? Do you have any other information so I can pass it on to the right people?
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by nbm 15y ago
You can also partially unsubscribe from friends that share celebrity news. Moving them into the "Acquaintances" list means you'll only get their more "important" updates. Alternatively, you can change their subscription level on their prof
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by nbm 15y ago
The only lists that are automatically maintained are those for your schoolmates, your work colleagues, where you live, and your family. The family one is the one where the most sensitive information might be shared, and that requires a conf

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