I Didn't Tell Facebook I'm Engaged, So Why Is It Asking About My Fiancé?

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5. Same way as google and yahoo have joined together. They said they would be reading the content of

Emails in the accounts to tailor ads for those with yahoo accounts. Same with youtube, gmail, etc. I don't do gmail, twitter, myspace or facebook.

But I started with youtube and made some friends there years ago, but we contact through email now, not youtube as we don't go there much anymore. I only maintain it for playlists.

We were having trouble instant messaging through yahoo, so we started with myspace. Then myspace got to be too much, and we tried facebook. This was years ago.

Since then, people I know and don't know have their updates and invitations sent to my email. Or so I thought. It turns out it was a bot by facebook. I'd answer invitations that were allegedly by people I'd contacted in emails on political campaigns, asking me to friend them on facebook.

But when I responded, I got this 'who the hell are you' answers and we found that they hadn't initiatied any contact. Like me, they had made their facebook accounts as private as they knew how to do.

So most likely, since facebook puts a cookie on your computer to show all the places that you go, they have followed your emails, read them and know all the email addresses you've ever contacted.

That's all I can say. I have not been signed into facebook for years, but still get updates from people I have no real relationships with. No one that I know personally contacts me there. I'll get around to asking DUers how to shut the account down completely; but I'm sure the damage has been done by google, yahoo and facebook to spread my thoughts around.

So that's a lot, it's my experience, and I don't think that you can expect any privacy with a facebook account at all. Good luck and congratulations on your engagement.