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| ▲ | georgemcbay 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > yet facebook still knows how to recommend those i meet in real life!! Meta is an awful company but they don't have Enemy of the State level surveillance. If you met someone in real life and then Facebook recommended them to you the leak here was almost certainly a human one, eg. the person you met googled you and clicked your Facebook profile when it showed up (while they themselves were logged into Facebook) and that's how Facebook made the connection. So don't kill yourself. Life is very short anyway, enjoy the absurdity of it while you can. | | |
| ▲ | thin_carapace 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | i was verbally introduced to somebody (that i have 1 mutual friend with) for a grand total of 30 seconds, facebook knew about it an hour later. nobody involved used their phones much during that hour. based on this occurence, facebook's intrusiveness is clearly deep enough. i appreciate the advice not to commit suicide - another responder was correct that i would be digitally resurrected as a pure profit vehicle anyway | | |
| ▲ | jemmyw 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Again it's almost certainly other people using their phones. One of your facebook contacts friended this person, maybe even before you shook their hand, facebook is going to recommend you friend them too. I don't friend anyone any more on facebook and the last time I did I lived in another country. It knows where I live now but it has never recommended anyone close by to friend. However, I do get friendship recommendations for folks in the country I moved away from, and I'm sure if I lived there still I'd have actually bumped into said people and thought "huh coincidence that facebook recommended them or are they spying on me?!?!" |
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| ▲ | Alien1Being 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That strategy would not be guaranteed to work. An AI simulation of you would post on HN. Welcome to the future. As always 99% of it is poor quality slop... | |
| ▲ | em-bee 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | why are you on facebook? | | |
| ▲ | MajorTakeaway 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Rather than asking him the question of why in a simple rudimentary form, give the guy motivation to quit facebook instead. Facebook employs guilt tactics about people they know to get them to stay, and if they quit, they're likely to go back because of in person connections. By sounding condescending, the person you're replying to is likely to justify staying rather than quitting. | | |
| ▲ | thin_carapace 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | i think your advice would apply in a standard human situation where optimal communication requires decoration, in this scenario i reciprocated the communication format which indicates acceptance |
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| ▲ | thin_carapace 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | i have an account from when i was a teenager that i sometimes use to talk to family. why do you ask? based on my anecdote we are all tracked by facebook, whether or not we are on facebook. | | |
| ▲ | cortesoft 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It was confusing hearing that Facebook was recommending people to you when you made it sound like you were choosing to opt out of those things. I am not sure how your anecdote would show you are all tracked by Facebook even if you aren't on facebook; you only received recommendations for people to friend on facebook because you are on facebook. I am not on facebook, so i have never had facebook recommend anyone to me. | | |
| ▲ | thin_carapace 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | my phone cant run facebook. by choosing this phone i am opting not to have facebook track me on a constant basis. however, based on whatever signals are available to everyone elses phones, facebook still tracks me. and facebook is doing the same to everybody including you - not sure if youre aware of the concept of shadow profiles? |
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| ▲ | em-bee 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | well you were asking how to get out of the game. leaving facebook is one of the necessary steps. it may not be enough, and some things from you may still be tracked by meta, but less is better. it's as simple as that. i do have sympathy with the fact that sometimes you just can't avoid it though. if you have family members that absolutely refuse to talk to you in any other way for example. so i ask to reflect if you really need it, or if you can find other ways to stay in touch with your family. (but the key point is the reflection, i am not expecting you to find a solution right away. the point is: always be aware why you are making that tradeoff. i would be on facebook too if i had people there that are important to me and that i could not reach any other way. i do know some people that are on facebook that i would like to be in contact with, so i can sympathize.) |
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