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So how's this for dodgey facebook privacy?
Yesterday I logged in to facebook and noticed that in my "people you might know" was someone who I'd been chatting to on Oasis recently. "wow what a coincidence" I thought, and checked to see if we had any mutual friends. We didn't. And then I looked at the full list and found that there were maybe 4 others on the list that I'd spoken to recently enough. Creepy, I thought, I've loosened up the privacy on my browsers recently since I've stopped sharing a laptop with T. I actually thought it was because facebook keeps tabs on all the sites you go to, and if they have a facebook tab perhaps they keep track of the people that you interact with too... given that it's most likely keeping tabs on them as well. Wow.
But it got worse, there was another guy on there who I'd deleted off oasis months ago, well before I changed the privacy on my browsers. He'd been creepy himself, and kept texting me weird (read: weird, not dirty) photos so I cut him. And then, as a result of really paying attention to which of them I had mutual friends with, up popped Joe, whose surname I hadn't known, and who I dated last year, as someone I might know. Again no mutual friends. And the last time I chatted to him online was over a year ago. But since I never delete anything from my phone, his number is still in there - as Joe, not as his full first and last name.
And all the other ones who'd popped up? I'd had phone contact with all of them too. I probably hadn't deleted the weird ones' texts. Actually he texted me randomly fairly recently, perhaps my number is still in his phone...
So here's the thing, if they're coming up in my suggestions, chances are, I'm coming up in their suggestions too. Which means they can see my surname, who my friends are, and any photo albums or wall posts I allow to be public. Bad luck, you let that stuff be public for a reason? Well yes and no, I don't mind if these people randomly stumble across me, awkward, but oh well, we probs have mutual friends or mutual friends of friends or something. But do I want facebook to point me out to them?! Hell no!
And it's worse, other than the creepy one, there's nobody on the list who may have messaged me once or twice and whose number isn't saved in my phonebook. There's quite a few who exist, and I haven't deleted their messages either. Which tells me it's definitely due to me being in his phonebook. Which... wow, is now possibly giving me embarrassing information. If, for instance, I come up in Joe's "people you might know" he'll know I must have him still in my phonebook (because normal people would've deleted by now right?) It's not like I would ever have done anything with it, I'm just lazy, but ugh!
And to confirm that? T just messaged me to let me know that one of his ex roots (fucks for non-aussies) came up in people he might know, again with no mutual friends. T is a chronic deleter, so this guy is long gone from his phone, as would be all of his messages... but what's more, this guy was 3 phones ago for T, long before facebook asked to sync, hell long before we even had an app for it. Which says... this guy still has T in his phone... and facebook is informing T thusly.
Yeah. Creepy,.
Yesterday I logged in to facebook and noticed that in my "people you might know" was someone who I'd been chatting to on Oasis recently. "wow what a coincidence" I thought, and checked to see if we had any mutual friends. We didn't. And then I looked at the full list and found that there were maybe 4 others on the list that I'd spoken to recently enough. Creepy, I thought, I've loosened up the privacy on my browsers recently since I've stopped sharing a laptop with T. I actually thought it was because facebook keeps tabs on all the sites you go to, and if they have a facebook tab perhaps they keep track of the people that you interact with too... given that it's most likely keeping tabs on them as well. Wow.
But it got worse, there was another guy on there who I'd deleted off oasis months ago, well before I changed the privacy on my browsers. He'd been creepy himself, and kept texting me weird (read: weird, not dirty) photos so I cut him. And then, as a result of really paying attention to which of them I had mutual friends with, up popped Joe, whose surname I hadn't known, and who I dated last year, as someone I might know. Again no mutual friends. And the last time I chatted to him online was over a year ago. But since I never delete anything from my phone, his number is still in there - as Joe, not as his full first and last name.
And all the other ones who'd popped up? I'd had phone contact with all of them too. I probably hadn't deleted the weird ones' texts. Actually he texted me randomly fairly recently, perhaps my number is still in his phone...
So here's the thing, if they're coming up in my suggestions, chances are, I'm coming up in their suggestions too. Which means they can see my surname, who my friends are, and any photo albums or wall posts I allow to be public. Bad luck, you let that stuff be public for a reason? Well yes and no, I don't mind if these people randomly stumble across me, awkward, but oh well, we probs have mutual friends or mutual friends of friends or something. But do I want facebook to point me out to them?! Hell no!
And it's worse, other than the creepy one, there's nobody on the list who may have messaged me once or twice and whose number isn't saved in my phonebook. There's quite a few who exist, and I haven't deleted their messages either. Which tells me it's definitely due to me being in his phonebook. Which... wow, is now possibly giving me embarrassing information. If, for instance, I come up in Joe's "people you might know" he'll know I must have him still in my phonebook (because normal people would've deleted by now right?) It's not like I would ever have done anything with it, I'm just lazy, but ugh!
And to confirm that? T just messaged me to let me know that one of his ex roots (fucks for non-aussies) came up in people he might know, again with no mutual friends. T is a chronic deleter, so this guy is long gone from his phone, as would be all of his messages... but what's more, this guy was 3 phones ago for T, long before facebook asked to sync, hell long before we even had an app for it. Which says... this guy still has T in his phone... and facebook is informing T thusly.
Yeah. Creepy,.