Good information. This is why parents need to monitor their kids activity on Facebook. It's perfectly find to use Mobile spy or Sniper Spy on the phone to make sure your kids are safe. I feel it's better safe than sorry. Know what your kids are facing and help them make them best decision.
Never use your real name. Never tag people in photos. Ask your friends to NOT tag you (or their friends). Don't identify anyone in Picasa, because Google is even worse than FaceBook. Do NOT compromise your friends or their privacy. Be sure you never post your telephone number or anything else.
There is 3rd party JavaScript running all over the place on every single big website out there now, even here on CBS. Facebook and Twitter are linked to much of it now.
I have clicked on some things in fb but cancelled because they want to let it get to third party sites. So I don't join any of my fb friends on alot of things. You should be able to connect with friends without the worry of possible fraud.
I noticed a couple of days ago that one's "home town" is now a mandated link, information removed from one's profile if one does not accept the link. This happened earlier with employment and education and interests. And once one accepts those links, that information becomes "public" - by Facebook law. What concerns me in particular is that teens and preteens likely love those links to their schools and their hometowns, and the "like" buttons that are now cropping up all over the world. Your 12 year old daughter will probably not have the concern about her credit rating I do, and not have the concept of privacy I maintain.
Beyond that, when I visit websites companies try to sell to me, a 62 year old single male, cars, flat screen TVs, insurance policies, reverse mortgages and programmable toothbrushes. But on Facebook, where I socialize with friends, but don't date, 90% of what I is being sold to me are datable "mature women" and "young women for older" with EE+ cup sizes in V-neck sweaters. It is clearly personalized, lord knows what the parameters are, but if this is what I am deemed to be interested in, what does Facebook think is appropriate for your children? Does anybody know? Because if you're not 11 years old, you don't get to see the things an 11 year old sees.
Facebook advertising is based on the personal information Facebook makes available to its advertisers - apart from anything else, is what I see an indication that General Motors and General Electric and Boeing are shunning Facebook? If that is so, we have a real problem on our hands.
Remember AOL? Once upon a time, companies published their AOL keyword before they published their website URL. AOL, too, tried to take over the world, and fell flat on its face. In many ways, I hope that will happen with Facebook - while the concept is great, the execution puts me and you at risk. Remember that Microsoft bought Hotmail because it had the largest mailing list on the planet, not because free email was such a wonderful concept.
This is a great example of why technology will not solve societal problems, only make them worse. The mass-marketing of products and services is predatory in nature, and no real option is available for people to refuse to participate. How realistic is it to not update one's computer every five years or so? The problem is that human ability outstrips wisdom, and technology amplifies that power so that now we can devise whole new classes of ways to manipulate other people's desires heedless of the long-term consequences. Fascism still lives, but it is diffuse and subtle, and society is deluded and debased if it thinks that social marketing is anything greater than incipient enslavement.
I got off about a month ago, just too much stuff. And then I read all these different article about how bad security was and this is just one in a slew of them, glad I got off. 400 mil people are on this! I liked it because I could see old friends, super rich information, but if this article is true, they are just selling us to the highest bidder! What a scam!
Some of Ms. Goodchild's answers are just flat out wrong. We'd welcome the opportunity to talk with her and fully explain how Facebook works, especially our advertising programs. In the meantime, readers should know that we don't sell or otherwise share data with advertisers. Any assertion to the contrary is false. Specifically, if an advertiser targets someone interested in boating, we'll serve ad impressions to people with "boating" on their profile somewhere. However, we don't provide the advertiser any names or other personal information about the Facebook users who view or even click on the ads.
Also, it doesn't matter what information is public for ad targeting. The user is just as likely to see a targeted ad if "boating" is private as if it is public. In both scenarios, the advertiser does not get the info.
In summary, the connection Ms. Goodchild describes between public information and advertisers just doesn't exist.
In the future, we would appreciate the opportunity to comment. We can be reached at any time at press@facebook.com. Thanks.
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Use your brain.
Beyond that, when I visit websites companies try to sell to me, a 62 year old single male, cars, flat screen TVs, insurance policies, reverse mortgages and programmable toothbrushes. But on Facebook, where I socialize with friends, but don't date, 90% of what I is being sold to me are datable "mature women" and "young women for older" with EE+ cup sizes in V-neck sweaters. It is clearly personalized, lord knows what the parameters are, but if this is what I am deemed to be interested in, what does Facebook think is appropriate for your children? Does anybody know? Because if you're not 11 years old, you don't get to see the things an 11 year old sees.
Facebook advertising is based on the personal information Facebook makes available to its advertisers - apart from anything else, is what I see an indication that General Motors and General Electric and Boeing are shunning Facebook? If that is so, we have a real problem on our hands.
Remember AOL? Once upon a time, companies published their AOL keyword before they published their website URL. AOL, too, tried to take over the world, and fell flat on its face. In many ways, I hope that will happen with Facebook - while the concept is great, the execution puts me and you at risk. Remember that Microsoft bought Hotmail because it had the largest mailing list on the planet, not because free email was such a wonderful concept.
I work for Facebook.
Some of Ms. Goodchild's answers are just flat out wrong. We'd welcome the opportunity to talk with her and fully explain how Facebook works, especially our advertising programs. In the meantime, readers should know that we don't sell or otherwise share data with advertisers. Any assertion to the contrary is false. Specifically, if an advertiser targets someone interested in boating, we'll serve ad impressions to people with "boating" on their profile somewhere. However, we don't provide the advertiser any names or other personal information about the Facebook users who view or even click on the ads.
Also, it doesn't matter what information is public for ad targeting. The user is just as likely to see a targeted ad if "boating" is private as if it is public. In both scenarios, the advertiser does not get the info.
In summary, the connection Ms. Goodchild describes between public information and advertisers just doesn't exist.
In the future, we would appreciate the opportunity to comment. We can be reached at any time at press@facebook.com. Thanks.
Simon Axten