Facebook Doesnt Tell Users Everything it Really Knows About Them

[SecularMotion]

Facebook has long let users see all sorts of things the site knows about them, like whether they enjoy soccer, have recently moved, or like Melania Trump.

But the tech giant gives users little indication that it buys far more sensitive data about them, including their income, the types of restaurants they frequent and even how many credit cards are in their wallets.

Since September, ProPublica has been encouraging Facebook users to share the categories of interest that the site has assigned to them. Users showed us everything from “Pretending to Text in Awkward Situations” to “Breastfeeding in Public.” In total, we collected more than 52,000 unique attributes that Facebook has used to classify users.

Facebook’s site says it gets information about its users “from a few different sources.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-doesnt-tell-users-everything-it-really-knows-about-them

[mtngirl47]

1. Big Brother is watching you!

Net neutrality might go away, but Big Brother will keep folks logged into Facebook so they will know what we're doing and so that they can give us the information they want us to have.

[Skittles]

2. I refuse to have anything to do with FB

my opinion of someone is greatly increased if I find they were never sucked into the FB borg

[milestogo]

3. So you're the other person who doesn't do facebook.

I thought it was just me. I do have a fake account so I can see pictures other people post.

I want to puke when I hear about people being unfriended, as if Facebook friends are real friends...

[Skittles]

4. I don't have any accounts

and yes, when I hear FB-speak, I just wonder if they realize how fucking ridiculous they sound

also, I love asking people when they need my help, what about your 1000 FB "friends" (of course I do help)

[andym]

5. Just think that the investigatory sites that collect personal info for pay are much smaller

than Facebook or Google. It would be a useful and relatively inexpensive task to collect every drop of information possible on users of high value sites like Facebook.