I was feeling pretty smug

[cyclonefence]

about never having had anything to do with Facebook, congratulating myself on not contributing to Cambridge Analytica's database, and then I thought about all those cute "personality tests" that have been posted here in the past few years, and how many of them I took part in. Some of them were strange, like "How Paranoid Are You?," but the weirdness was for me part of their comic charm. Anybody else suspect we might have been had by Steve Bannon et al.?

[jberryhill]

1. That's exactly what those are

They are essentially personality inventory tests.

"Which South Park character are you?" etc.

[snowybirdie]

2. You do realize

that any friend who did answer enabled them to get your information.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Any website you visit gathers at least some data about you, including this one.

Not being on Facebook doesn't mean much of anything.

[wishstar]

4. Most of us are on the MyLife website with our entire birthdays and often political party etc listed

Just google or bing your name and you will find lots of information that were gathered without our consent or knowledge.

I am not on any social media except posting here anonymously, yet my exact birthdate, political party, address information is on that website MyLife and many of my friends and relatives who are not on social media also have personal info listed there plus in some cases what cars they own. For many of us our approximate income and political opinions are also listed on that website.

[Squinch]

5. Yes. I'm not on Facebook either but I'm sure CAs greasy hands have been all over

my stuff anyway.

[jberryhill]

6. Eww

They should have at least washed their hands first.