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Greta75 -> This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/16/2016 7:12:09 PM)
Actually, I was probably on facebook for less than a month before I quit, and this was years ago. Seriously years ago. Way before I was even on this site. Their info harvesting is the worst I have ever seen. So much trespassing all the time. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/news/why-belgium-warning-citizens-facebook-emojis-153547092.html Belgium officials have issued a cautionary warning about Facebook: They're telling citizens not to use Facebook Reactions, if they want to preserve their privacy. Facebook rolled out a new set of five additional Reactions in February, in an apparent response to user feedback. Facebook users had long expressed the need to have a dislike button, but company officials said they didn’t want to bring negativity to the site. Instead, they added five new emojis designed to help users express what they felt: Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, or Angry. But those emoji reaction buttons are raising privacy concerns in Belgium. Officials say that Facebook is collecting information based on how users react to content on the social network, and selling it to advertisers. “By limiting the number of icons to six, Facebook is counting on you to express your thoughts more easily so that the algorithms that run in the background are more effective,” Belgium's federal police force posted in a news release Wednesday. “A mouse click can let them know what makes you happy.” The post continues, “if it appears that you are in a good mood Facebook will infer that you are more susceptible to advertising and will be able to sell advertising space to marketers by telling them they have a better chance to get you to react at certain times.”

DesFIP -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/19/2016 8:42:55 AM)
I don't use emojis. And I'm checking facebook multiple times daily for the next month. My son's traveling and posting pics on facebook with comments about how the trip is going

mousekabob -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/20/2016 6:19:41 PM)
I've been on FB from the beginning. As long as I keep an eye on my settings, I've never once had an issue. I think people just don't understand how to use their settings.

Kaliko -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/20/2016 6:22:33 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mousekabob I've been on FB from the beginning. As long as I keep an eye on my settings, I've never once had an issue. I think people just don't understand how to use their settings. Agreed.

shiftyw -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/20/2016 7:12:41 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Kaliko quote: ORIGINAL: mousekabob I've been on FB from the beginning. As long as I keep an eye on my settings, I've never once had an issue. I think people just don't understand how to use their settings. Agreed. Also agreed.

ThatDizzyChick -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/20/2016 9:07:22 PM)
quote: I think people just don't understand how to use their settings. Incorrect. Facebook harvests tons of information on all its users and shares it with anybody with the cash to pay for it, regardless of anything you put in your settings. And the various Facebook games are even worse.

mousekabob -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/22/2016 6:49:04 PM)
every single site you go to online is like that. Facebook's no different. If you're online, your information is being harvested. Welcome to life.

ThatDizzyChick -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/22/2016 9:41:38 PM)
No, they are not all just like Facebook because they are not all linked to your real name, and they do not all track you even when you are not logged in, which Facebook does.

Greta75 -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 3:06:18 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mousekabob I've been on FB from the beginning. As long as I keep an eye on my settings, I've never once had an issue. I think people just don't understand how to use their settings. But didn't you experience a few times, facebook changed your settings back to default without your knowledge? There has been a few incidents.

Greta75 -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 3:08:13 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick No, they are not all just like Facebook because they are not all linked to your real name, and they do not all track you even when you are not logged in, which Facebook does. I open a facebook account for my cat. Using her email account, and basically, no information related to me. Then facebook comes up with all these business clients that could be people I know and it's like WTF? All these contacts are in my outlook. How they harvest it!!! I shut down that account immediately! As we got personal protection laws that I could get in serious trouble if client data was compromise.

ThatDizzyChick -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 5:31:44 AM)
quote: How they harvest it I told you, they track you even when you aren't logged in, so they just matched the "cat" profile with the info they had on you on the basis of the tracking cookies. Basically, if anybody uses Facebook on a computer, then that computer's activities are tracked and collated.

DesFIP -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 6:44:20 AM)
If you buy anything through Amazon, no difference. They gather all that info in order to sell you more. Windows 10 comes with all privacy turned off and you have to jump through hoops to turn it on. Use a grocery store card, same. Everybody tracks info.

ThatDizzyChick -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 7:52:33 AM)
Again, not the same, but hey, fool yourselves if you want, it's no skin off my ass.

dcnovice -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 3:28:22 PM)
quote: Windows 10 comes with all privacy turned off and you have to jump through hoops to turn it on. Well, damn. I didn't know that. Windows truly is malware.

Kaliko -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 3:41:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick quote: How they harvest it I told you, they track you even when you aren't logged in, so they just matched the "cat" profile with the info they had on you on the basis of the tracking cookies. Basically, if anybody uses Facebook on a computer, then that computer's activities are tracked and collated. Is it any more intrusive than Google? (That's a real question, not an argument.)

ThatDizzyChick -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 5:57:31 PM)
Yes, because Google does not link to your real name and the real names of your friends and families, and Google does not track you when you are logged out (though to be honest I am not sure how Google tracks you if you use Google+ to sign in to other sites).

Greta75 -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 6:21:18 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick Yes, because Google does not link to your real name and the real names of your friends and families, and Google does not track you when you are logged out (though to be honest I am not sure how Google tracks you if you use Google+ to sign in to other sites). I don't feel like google goes inside my computer to pull out all of my contacts. But I am also not on google+ as I suspect it's like facebook. I simply stick to gmail for google and I do use google calender, but I am not on google plus. And it's good to see google not prompt me if these are all the email contacts from my computer I wanna import into gmail. Now if that happens, I will freak out again! Facebook practically tap right into my computer.

mousekabob -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 7:10:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Greta75 quote: ORIGINAL: mousekabob I've been on FB from the beginning. As long as I keep an eye on my settings, I've never once had an issue. I think people just don't understand how to use their settings. But didn't you experience a few times, facebook changed your settings back to default without your knowledge? There has been a few incidents. No. I've checked my settings numerous times and they have never changed unless I specifically changed them myself. I've heard of it happening to others but it's never happened to me.

mousekabob -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 7:13:39 PM)
I just assume that all my information is public knowledge whether I'm logged on somewhere or not. I also assume there are cameras everywhere watching me 24/7 because really...there is no such thing as privacy and anyone who thinks there is is fooling themselves.

Greta75 -> RE: This is exactly why I left Facebook (5/23/2016 8:30:35 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mousekabob No. I've checked my settings numerous times and they have never changed unless I specifically changed them myself. I've heard of it happening to others but it's never happened to me. It happened twice to my x-husband's facebook account. And then both times Facebook has acknowledged it and made a public apology about it.

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