Here's How From PC World.

Who wants to go first?

Peachy

Peach,

Think I am clean. I would welcome you as a friend on facebook

Just email at gronjones@prodigy.net and I think we can get squared away.

Regards,

Will do Glenn. Thanks. I tried the scan but my virus software sez it isn't safe. Of course that doesn't mean a lot but still hesitant. I figured since it came from PC world......but hey.

Peachy

Best way to be private on Facebook is to not be on Facebook at all.

I don't have anything that I need to hide about my life--but I also have no need to post every detail of my life on a site like Facebook.

Jeff/CompGuy

Jeff...

I don't post every detail about my life. I'm a private person. I post the most benign and boring things. It's fun to interact with our friends here......to have discovered other friends from the defunct MSN bridge site whom I miss. I have listed no personal information other than some movies I like and some books I like and some websites I enjoy and the colleges I attended. Some of us love sharing music.

It's not even a time-consuming activity like Aant is. Facebook scans this information, throws it into God knows what kind of applications and runs with it.

You might say to someone that you like gardening and they add all sorts of gardening sites to your list....Like pets?....you get pet sites as your favorites......sites you've never visited or heard of. In a sidebar, they give you the option to say no to the item but that's one way they get their money. I was willing to put up with that, figuring garbage in, garbage out.

I've never ever been tempted to buy into their premium games because I'd die before I gave them my credit card......and that includes paypal.

But my point is that as benign as it is presented, I don't like being led to believe I've blocked a privacy feature only to find that my posts are being shared with Yahoo, Myspace, Google, Bing and a zillion other places....like I discovered had been added today. Luckily a friend alerted me and I've stopped it....I suppose.

If you or anyone else thinks they are immune, I know for sure Yahoo is doing the same thing. I have a few friends on my Yahoo Messenger I gotta send a message to alert them because when their names come up, it lists the last place they posted something and I can go right there and read their durn post even though I'm not a logged in member of that site.

In the beginning, the entire selling point of Facebook was........Privacy.

Peachy

Facebook has supposedly improved the privacy controls and put them all in one place. I don't play the games; they are annoying and I hide them from my update stream. I did not know that checking "like" allowed your friend (or an ad) to use your information.

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Originally posted by DianeZ:
Facebook has supposedly improved the privacy controls and put them all in one place. I don't play the games; they are annoying and I hide them from my update stream. I did not know that checking "like" allowed your friend (or an ad) to use your information.

That's not what I meant Diane. I meant that ads appear for things specifically tailored to my interests....Particularly shopping online (Nordstrom's, Lands End and other sites), Pet finders and other things I've searched on the NET that's never been mentioned on facebook. Some say it's because they know enough about my demographics but sorry, they can't be that good. They're snooping.

Peachy

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Originally posted by Avenging Peach:

That's not what I meant Diane. I meant that ads appear for things specifically tailored to my interests....Particularly shopping online (Nordstrom's, Lands End and other sites), Pet finders and other things I've searched on the NET that's never been mentioned on facebook. Some say it's because they know enough about my demographics but sorry, they can't be that good. They're snooping.

Peachy

Any site that you personalize does that - including Yahoo mail, G-mail, Hotmail, etc. Yesterday on Facebook I noticed an ad that said "___ likes this" - ____ was my sister. So if you click "like" on an ad, FB will share that you like such and such ad with your friends.

Which kinda makes sense--otherwise what's the point of clicking the Like button on something?

Here's a link to some of Facebook's documentation for developers which gives a little intro to what functions they make available:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/web
--
Stephen

I haven't clicked any "like" buttons lol.

Do you think it is a coincidence that after I spent some time browsing the Karastan rug site, the very next day I started getting ads for Karastan on my fb site? That's my main gripe....and the petfinder ads. I browse petfinder a lot. I thought I posted that on this line. I guess it was somewhere else.

Peachy

 
I agree w/ Peachy... even though I'm pretty sure I know -how- they do it, I get a lil' creeped out when the lamp I was looking at on lamp store site ABC shows up in ads on NOT-a-lamp-store site XYZ.

To coin one of my most favorite phrases... if I wanted someone THAT far up my arse, I'd still be married.

*CJ

Most All,

Though much disagreeable, I've plenty of schooling. My mind's - a little tired. But I really don't know what all of you are ( referring ) talking about. Hidden statements so few can read ? Bad people out there ? Sneaky, boldish, kinda rotten ones ? We could catch one & tie him-she to a repeet, repete, repeat post !

What say all - huh ?

FWIW:

As you may already know, I don't do FB or Twitter. But many of my friends, kids, and kids of their kids do. I recently came across this searchengineland.com article, which provides examples of "drilling down" to find things which *some* FB users might have thought to be "private" (i.e., shared only among "friends"). Some of you may find this to be interesting:

Facebook’s “Posts By Everyone” Feature: Do People Realize They’re Sharing To The World?

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Originally posted by Avenging Peach:

Do you think it is a coincidence that after I spent some time browsing the Karastan rug site, the very next day I started getting ads for Karastan on my fb site? That's my main gripe....and the petfinder ads. I browse petfinder a lot. I thought I posted that on this line. I guess it was somewhere else.

Peachy

I recall reading that post, Peachy. It was here

I have this g'friend. We've been friends for almost 20 years. She is long-divorced, no kids...very cool. I enjoy her immensely. The really weird thing about her is that she won't tell anyone her age. We've even had birthday parties for her and she won't tell which birthday. Once we were in a store and she was making a purchase and had to produce her driver's license. I tried to peek. She saw me and was so furious she practically had a tantrum. She sez age is nobody's business. She has a twin brother who lives across the country.

She is not very NET savvy and we rarely email but I had to send her one the other day on her Yahoo account. When I hit send, something came up inviting me to check out her most recent contacts added to her list and also her posts on Yahoo boards!! One new "contact" was her twin brother, I recognized the name. I clicked his profile and he is not bashful about age. Actually, I was stunned. Alas, my friend is at least ten years older than I thought she was and twenty years older than she looks (which is good.)


Her carefully guarded secret is out, thanks to Yahoo. Of course I'll never tell her but damn!

I hate Yahoo worse than Facebook.

They are even sneakier.

And BTW, Karl.....My original question is how do the advertisers on my page know I'm already interested in their products, like the Karastan rugs? I have never clicked "like" and never mentioned them on Facebook. Nor do I do much messaging on FB.....or nothing that says anything.

Peachy