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The "you may know" is indeed very random which i think you would've noticed.
The "you may know" is indeed very random which i think you would've noticed.
As far as them just being friends of friends, that would be extremely random, and doesn't make much sense to me. So it's going to let me know that I might know this person just because they're listed as a friend of someone who listed me? Um…ok.
Actually, if you map out the social networks of people you will find that for most people they share common subgroups of people they know with other people. So it actually is a pretty good guess that if you know Bob and Sally knows Bob then chances are that you know Sally, too.
That is just how the advertisement work on such sites. They check for key words in recent messages that you have written and your age/gender/location/relationship status. I wrote a message about warhammer on a friends wall, and now I've been getting advertisement from games workshop. But targeted advertisement like this has been a reality since the dawn of social sites. Heck, if a forum is supported by google ads then you might end up seeing some strange ads based on what people recently have typed out in each individual thread. Considering the fact that this is not actually based on saved data, but just a recent scan of your activity I don't really consider this a huge issue.There is also a lot of other weird, things…. like the person a who wrote an angry message to his wife, and got adz for divorce lawyers… the alghorims behind are scary stuff. Or the couple who shared an account and the wife figuring out her birthday gift from the facebook adz she were getting on the account….
Or burglars who use the site to clean your home….. since they know you are on vaccation. They don't even need to be your friend it is enough a friend asked you a good vaccation and a friends "friend" see it….
There is also a lot of other weird, things…. like the person a who wrote an angry message to his wife, and got adz for divorce lawyers… the alghorims behind are scary stuff. Or the couple who shared an account and the wife figuring out her birthday gift from the facebook adz she were getting on the account….
This hasnt got to do with any algorithms, it's called coincidence. Billions of people are spammed with ads from just about everywhere, every day, year after year. Ofcourse it will sometimes, or even quite often, just "click" for many of those, that's kind of the idea with ads.
I'm a law abiding citizin, still I lock my house and do not invite everyone in, not even to have a short look around. Why should I not be afraid on the internet and take similar precautions? It's not the majority, the good people, I fear.(…)I'm also not sure exactly what a law abiding citizen has to fear anyways?
'Everyone', what matters is those that ARE interested. One, not being a (real) friend, is enough to be harmed in a serious way. Google 'Identity theft', or 'Identity Theft and Facebook'."But, but - it's my privacy?!" Yeah ok it's your privacy, and everyone is super interested in you and your "privacy"? yeah right. In your dreams maybe.
That would be against basic European laws. The thing that's stored is when and who did (you) contact (you) - when and who - not the contents, not the exchanged information. Storage time varies per (European) country, but it's not allowed to store it permanently.In Sweden all data that is sent, even telephone calls, is stored.
You assume that there'll always be good laws or good people in power who will respect, support and uphold you, the law abiding citizen.(…) Unless someone is a sloppy criminal that likes to boost over the internet i don't see what the big deal is.
Many people trust strangers or vague friends because they themselves do not use, would not use or do not see how one could use, ordinary information for bad purposes, purposes not being FBI/CIA purposes.And people whining about privacy and FB, if you decided to share something with your 200 friends, maybe it wasnt that "private" in the first place, and again, probably not that intresting to neither the FBI or the CIA?