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Facebook |OT| The Social Network
- Thread starter saelz8
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When you start putting letters in the search bar and your friends appear, the person on top is the one you look at most (of that letter), I've noticed.
Facebook keeps tabs on which profiles you visit and how frequently, and vice versa how many times your profile is visited. This is used for many different things, one of which is populating the your newsfeed with posts from said friends (and your posts in their feeds), and the 'your friends' summary link on your time line.
The more likely way you popped up in "friends you may know?" for her (if that was indeed the way she found you) is that Facebook linked your friend's living addresses together. Facebook tracks absolutely everything about where you are when you visit and post on the site, plus any addresses you enter in your profile. Since your friend lived with her and they're friends with you, she may be a friend too(!) (facebook logic).
Hmm... my friend isn't on Facebook though, and it's not like I have ever posted anything about him or going to his house or whatever on there. However I did log on to Facebook once or twice from his house so it could be IP related I guess. Seems like a stretch though. Damn Facebook is creepy.
added_time
Member
I have two facebook accounts and I noticed that sometimes facebook will recommend a friend from the one account to the other even if there are no mutual friends at all. So I think they must use IP details or things in cookies on shared computers to snoop around and recommend those friends.
Some 'venues' though will be missing unless you check-in to the EXACT spelling ...
I'm currently BLOCKED from accessing Facebook entirely, lucky I have friends who can post on my behalf really haha
This is correct. Facebook uses IP tracing far more than people think.
It would need VERY accurate use of GPS to avoid complete confusion with shared devices / Internet connections.
... or use triangulation via people (friends) instead of the limitations of said technology.
You don't think they know that? Every day they're coming up with newer ideas to get people more and more intertwined.
I expect they do, I don't like too many tangled or broken connections though. Facebook is a clusterfuck, with nonsense privacy settings and WAY too much spam. It will go the same way as MySpace 1.0 if they don't take more care and attention-to-detail with it.
The whole thing needs streamlining, they should talk to Apple more to up the cross-integration with iOS. That would force Facebook to detangle themselves.
Facebook tracks absolutely everything about every user, even information that they don't know how to parse or make use of at this time. It's all about future-proofing themselves.
This is pretty standard practice, Microsoft does the same with Xbox Live for example, once you have a Live ID your habits (e.g. how long you idle on the dashboard, what games you play, whatever), your location, everything about you is tracked and stored indefinitely.
This is pretty standard practice, Microsoft does the same with Xbox Live for example, once you have a Live ID your habits (e.g. how long you idle on the dashboard, what games you play, whatever), your location, everything about you is tracked and stored indefinitely.
Starwolf_UK
Member
The rephrase the question; did she give Facebook your e-mail.
What I mean is did she use the friend finder (it occasionally pops up showing you "friend x and y found z people you trys it toos)? That accesses an e-mail account, finds all the address that have ever written to or sent to it (or maybe it just raids the address book) and runs it against their database, possibly ignoring the privacy settings, which allows it to make impossible links to "only me" e-mail.
It also stores that data, so if you were in contact with someone who lacks an account but they then get an account, they'll see you as a friend suggestion (and vice versa).
IIRC it was also found that it kept checking the e-mail accounts for new contacts too despite the description saying it was a one-time thing. I read an article a few years back on it so they might have caved in on that point.
That folks is why you don't use the "friend finder".
Jzero
Member
Yup, i always go in there and delete the searches just in case.
Zuckerberg has sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much blackmail material now.
Buckethead
Banned
How do u do that?
Jzero
Member
Like this. It obviously won't remove it from their server but at least anyone who hacks you can't see your search history.
Buckethead
Banned
Gotcha.
I was curious if you could turn them from catalogging in the first place but that works.
I was curious if you could turn them from catalogging in the first place but that works.
Starwolf_UK
Member
You can remove individual searches but at the top there is a remove all button (it gives you the warning about "nobody else can see but this to give you more relevant suggestions"*). Also it didn't seem to have anything from before September for me.Like this. It obviously won't remove it from their server but at least anyone who hacks you can't see your search history.
*-Which can be just as bad if not worse...
added_time
Member
Thanks for this tip. I only knew about deleting individual searches so this saves me some time.
Where's the remove all button? Can't seem to find it...just has the individual ones with the strikethrough O.
added_time
Member
After you click on activity log, look at the right where it says "photos, likes, comments" and click on "more" and then click on "search" and then there is a big thing that says "clear searches"
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Jzero
Member
Haha i hadn't even seen it until now.
Thanks for this.
Edit--What the hell, I don't remember searching for Karen Peters. I haven't talked to her in like 2 years.
Edit2-- Boy I did a lot of drunk-searching for exes. And I texted them too. Huh.
Holy fucks. Better delete those stalking searches soon.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Works fine here.
edit: restored to normal after 18 hours. facebook glitches are so fun!
Has anyone ever had their "activity box", located at the very top of ones timeline, vanish?
this is the box that has different cells on top of each other, ex likes, spotify, event... etc.
mine just did, just wondering if there is a protocol for getting that back.
I liked a page yesterday, so it is not a matter of elapsed time
Has anyone ever had their "activity box", located at the very top of ones timeline, vanish?
this is the box that has different cells on top of each other, ex likes, spotify, event... etc.
mine just did, just wondering if there is a protocol for getting that back.
I liked a page yesterday, so it is not a matter of elapsed time
Jzero
Member
Jzero
Member
Yea, Graph Search hasn't been released for everyone yet.
Jzero
Member
Because it still hasn't released. That picture is kinda off. The thing it's showing off is the rest of the profile.
I'm talking about the blue banner at the top. Mine (and many others) was always notifications on the left, search bar etc. But, I haven't got the updated search that you posted though.
I don't know what the new timeline is trying to achieve. Minimise the friends, maps etc but make the about section more prominent. By the looks of it, it won't be having the zig-zagging posts, at the top of the timeline, at least.
Jzero
Member
I have both the new layout and the new search. I'm guessing you have to have the new layout yourself to be able to see the layout.
so, i just got the new profile with right aligned status updates... and i think they finally got rid of my favorite function of Facebook... listing and ranking your favorite movies and games in the order you choose, 1-50 etc. they now just appear haphazardly (or last updated/added) with no apparent user control, with some new functionality about "things you watched" and suggested things.
additionally, progress was made in 2009 when a "games" category was added to the same cluster of favorite lists...
so it went
-favorite movies, books, tv shows, and then games was added... etc
now with this redesign? games are separated and relegated to the "more"->"other likes" tab, two steps removed from the prominent placement of movies and tv shows.
i literally have only just received this redesign in the last 15 minutes, so i will still feel it out, however it feels incredibly bad so far, since it hurts what i enjoyed most.
additionally, progress was made in 2009 when a "games" category was added to the same cluster of favorite lists...
so it went
-favorite movies, books, tv shows, and then games was added... etc
now with this redesign? games are separated and relegated to the "more"->"other likes" tab, two steps removed from the prominent placement of movies and tv shows.
i literally have only just received this redesign in the last 15 minutes, so i will still feel it out, however it feels incredibly bad so far, since it hurts what i enjoyed most.
I don't recall ever having this.
hmm, well, so this is what the movies section, of my about section (the tab in the 'new profile pictures' a few posts up) looks like.
for example, cruel intentions is not my favorite movie, and it should not be in the first, #1 position, however there is now no way to alter the order (apparently, maybe there is and im not seeing it)
idk. although i am sad to see user ranking functionality go if it is... being able to do "watched movies" and movies you want to see could be useful.
i'm having a bit of the ol, something new oh shii... i'm sure in a few days i will feel great. maybe.
This is what my movies "Likes" section has looked like since the original timeline was implemented, and I haven't received the new look one. But there's no way to change the order of them on the original timeline either... as far as I know?
There is yeah, it lets you add and remove "likes" for everything. You can drag and drop them around, but that doesn't save or transfer to how they look after clicking done, they all just revert.