Facebook dangers

[Janana]

Yes Jamaludeen is right that deactivating is different from deleting. There is, however, a way to permanently delete your account. I encourage you to check out this link: http://www.groovypost.com/howto/secu...ofile-account/

[Laila]

It takes exactly 14 days to delete your account after you have deactivated it. If you log back in during that 2 week time period, then no it will not be removed. Mine got deleted

[IamDZJ]

people will stalk you when give them live coverage on your every single move. make a habit of not announcing or broadcasting your life and no one would stalk you.

[JAMALUDEEN]

Jamaluddin,

Did you follow through with that vow to delete your account in a week ?!!
[hee hee ]

If not, there's no better time than Ramazan !

Here is another 1 minute video if anyone is interested.

I picked it to look at because of the name of the poster.
This name may sum up the entire covert point of facebook:
IlluminatiRevealed --

‪The Truth Behind Facebook‬‏ - YouTube

Yep, my two accounts are both deleted. They did give me two weeks, incase i change my mind (so dumb and pointless) but it was good riddance.

[Catya Sher]

I'm SO glad.

You know these things are like "fads" where people
feel left out or behind the times when everyone ELSE
is having their facebook account.

The ability to say NO shows one's independent mind
not just in this one field, but in life.

That always will lead one in the RIGHT direction.
Instead of following the herd.

Well Done !! [Like Jamaluddin's signature said!]

Thanks for that link, Janana, people may not know
about that difference between deactivation and deletion.
I appreciate that info.

[Catya Sher]

I think it's so important that I'm copying some of the explanation
for anyone who follows these brave pioneers above who deleted their
accounts

“I managed to deactivate it so it’s deleted right?”.
You would think the answer would be fairly straightforward however I have to admit, it took quite a bit of digging to come up with the answers surrounding account / profile deactivation and full blown account removal from the service. After doing the research and walking through the deceptive complex process, it was very apparent that Facebook has done their very best to prevent its customers from leaving their service thus limiting the amount of customer data being scrubbed from their service. Personally, I really feel Facebook has definitely crossed the border of unethical behavior on this. After all, they don’t “actually” provide an interface to delete your account and end your agreement with them regarding the use of your personal data per section 2.1 in their terms of service.

2. Sharing Your Content and Information – (updated 7/14/2011)
You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. In addition:

1. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (“IP License”). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
2. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
3. When you use an application, your content and information is shared with the application. We require applications to respect your privacy, and your agreement with that application will control how the application can use, store, and transfer that content and information. (To learn more about Platform, read our Privacy Policy and Platform Page.)
4. When you publish content or information using the “everyone” setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
5. We always appreciate your feedback or other suggestions about Facebook, but you understand that we may use them without any obligation to compensate you for them (just as you have no obligation to offer them).

Here, let me show you. First I’ll explain Facebook Account Deactivation since this is the only option offered in their User Interface.

Deactivating Your Facebook Account, Is it the same as Account Deletion?

Users can deactivate their Facebook account from the user interface without too much trouble however Facebook will ask you to confirm your decision (more on this) by displaying one of your friends and telling you “Your Friend will miss you”. In my example for instance, I’m pretty sure it took at least a few days for “P-Diddy” to get over losing me as a FaceBook friend.

Once you confirm you want to deactivate your account, be sure to: Read the fine print!The fine print clearly outlines that account “deactivation” is not the same as deleting your account / profile and all your data in the service.

What surprised me was the fact that even after the account was “deactivated”, you can still be tagged in photos, invited to events, etc.. With this in mind, be sure to “opt out” of emails if that’s the path you’re going down.

So in short, deactivating your Facebook account is pretty much worthless. It’s Facebook’s deceptive and very smart practice of luring you into a false sense of security by making you think you’ve removed your account, personal data and license to your IP (intellectual property) from the service when actually you haven’t. The unethical part about this is even while your account is deactivated, the license granted to Facebook in section 2.1 of their terms…

Section 2.1 of the Facebook Terms of Service
…photos and videos (“IP content”), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (“IP License”). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.

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…is still in affect. Groovy huh? Oh, and it gets better. To re-activate your account, all you need to do is sign-in to Facebook or use your Facebook ID to sign-in to another service (or post a comment on some sites) and everything is right back where you left it as if you never left – pictures, friends, posts, your IP….
So I think everyone will agree with me in that the Facebook Account / Profile deactivation process is worthless if your goal is to delete your account and remove your data or IP from the service. Seriously.. The “real” good news is there actually IS a way to delete your account and IP

[Master Khan]

I only use to keep in touch with my cousins back home and few of my friends

[Catya Sher]

Update: Latest encroachments by this scary wizard with so many
tentacles to invade one's privacy
If not interested in all the extraneous commentary,
just read the hightlighted part
and perhaps first several paragraphs to get the idea.

I think it's wise to avoid even opening any facebook page
at THIS point.
It can get WORSE, too.


Facebook tracking is under scrutiny


Byron Acohido - Nov. 16, 2011 11:48 AM
USA Today



In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users' privacy by making public too much of their personal information.
Far more quietly, another debate is brewing over a different side of online privacy: what Facebook is learning about those who visit its website.
Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the social media giant has been able to create a running log of the web pages that each of its 800 million or so members has visited during the previous 90 days. Facebook also keeps close track of where millions more non-members of the social network go on the Web, after they visit a Facebook web page for any reason.
To do this, the company relies on tracking cookie technologies similar to the controversial systems used by Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and others in the online advertising industry, says Arturo Bejar, Facebook's engineering director.
Facebook's efforts to track the browsing habits of visitors to its site have made the company a player in the "Do Not Track" debate, which focuses on whether consumers should be able to prevent websites from tracking the consumers' online activity.
For online business and social media sites, such information can be particularly valuable in helping them tailor online ads to specific visitors. But privacy advocates worry about how else the information might be used, and whether it might be sold to third parties.
New guidelines for online privacy are being hashed out in Congress and by the World Wide Web Consortium, which sets standards for the Internet.
If privacy advocates get their way, consumers soon could be empowered to stop or limit tech companies and ad networks from tracking them wherever they go online. But the online advertising industry has dug in its heels, trying to retain the current self-regulatory system.
Online tracking involves technologies that tech companies and ad networks have used for more than a decade to help advertisers deliver more relevant ads to each viewer. Until now, Facebook, which makes most of its profits from advertising, has been ambiguous in public statements about the extent to which it collects tracking data.
It contends that it does not belong in the same camp as Google, Microsoft and the rest of the online ad industry's major players. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made this point to interviewer Charlie Rose on national TV last week.
For the past several weeks, Zuckerberg and other Facebook officials have sought to distinguish how Facebook and others use tracking data. Facebook uses such data only to boost security and improve how "Like" buttons and similar Facebook plug-ins perform, Bejar told USA TODAY. Plug-ins are the ubiquitous web applications that enable you to tap into Facebook services from millions of third-party web pages.
Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes says the company has "no plans to change how we use this data." He also says the company's intentions "stand in stark contrast to the many ad networks and data brokers that deliberately and, in many cases, surreptitiously track people to create profiles of their behavior, sell that content to the highest bidder, or use that content to target ads."
Conflicting pressures
Rather than appease its critics, Facebook's public explanations of how it tracks and how it uses tracking data have touched off a barrage of questions from technologists, privacy advocates, regulators and lawmakers around the world.
"Facebook could be tracking users without knowledge or permission, which could be an unfair or deceptive business practice," says Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., co-sponsor with Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, of a bill aimed at limiting online tracking of children.
The company "should be covered by strong privacy safeguards," Markey says. "The massive trove of personal information that Facebook accumulates about its users can have a significant impact on them -- now and into the future."
Noting that "Facebook is the most popular social media website in the world," Barton adds, "All websites should respect users' privacy."
After Zuckerberg appeared on the Charlie Rose TV show last week, Markey and Barton sent a letter to the 27-year-old CEO asking him to explain why Facebook recently applied for a U.S. patent for technology that includes a method to correlate tracking data with advertisements. They gave Zuckerberg a Dec. 1 deadline to reply.
"We patent lots of things, and future products should not be inferred from our patent application," Facebook corporate spokesman Barry Schnitt says.
Facebook is under intense, conflicting pressures.
It must prove to its global financial backers that it is worthy of the hundreds of millions of dollars they've poured into the company, financial and tech industry analysts say. Those investors include Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, the Russian investmentfirm Digital Sky Technologies, Hong Kong financier Sir Ka-shing Li and venture capitalist Peter Andreas Thiel.
The success of the company's initial public offering of stock, expected sometime next year, hinges in part on Facebook's ability to move beyond the bread-and-butter text ads that appear on members' home pages and emerge as a key player in graphical display ads and corporate brand marketing campaigns, says Rebecca Lieb, advertising media analyst at the Altimeter Group.
In advertising, knowing more about consumers' preferences is key. "More data means better targeting, which means more revenue," says Marissa Gluck, managing partner of the media consulting firm Radar Research.
To meet rising expectations, Facebook must increase its annual revenue, now estimated at about $4 billion, by double-digit percentage points for years to come, Gluck says. The company is striving to keep its options open to do this. In doing so, it is bumping into pressure from critics who are concerned that leaving online privacy standards entirely in the hands of corporations might not be the best idea.
Ground rules needed
Companies are incorporating tracking data into new business models "without necessarily appreciating the long-term and collective consequences," says Craig Spiezle, executive director of the non-profit Online Trust Alliance.
Last week, consumer reporter Ric Romero of station KABC in Los Angeles showed how insurance companies monitor Facebook and Twitter, looking for reasons to raise premiums and deny claims. Previously, ABC News reporter Lyneka Little reported on how employers use Facebook information as part of the recruitment process.
Meanwhile, researchers at AT&T Labs and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have documented how tracking data culled from Internet searches and surfing can be meshed with personal information that Internet users disclose at websites for shopping, travel, health or jobs. Personal disclosures made on social networks, along with preference data gathered by new apps for smartphones and tablet PCs, are being tossed into this mix, too.
Privacy advocates worry that before long, corporations, government agencies and political parties could routinely purchase tracking data from data aggregators.
"Tracking data can be used to figure out your political bent, religious beliefs, sexuality preferences, health issues or the fact that you're looking for a new job," says Peter Eckersley, technology projects director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "There are all sorts of ways to form wrong judgments about people."
So far, it does not appear that this sort of data correlation is being done, at least not on a wide scale. But in the absence of ground rules, technologists, regulators and privacy advocates worry that companies involved in collecting tracking data could succumb to the temptation to cash in.
Says Michael Fertik, founder and CEO of Reputation.com: "We can only imagine that an advertising company with a richer trove of data will sell more and more of that data."
Facebook's trove of data
Facebook for the first time revealed details of how it compiles its trove of tracking data in a series of phone and e-mail interviews conducted by USA TODAY with Bejar, Noyes and Schnitt, as well as engineering manager Gregg Stefancik and corporate spokeswoman Jaime Schopflin. Here's what they disclosed:
-The company compiles tracking data in different ways for members who have signed in and are using their accounts, for members who are logged-off and for non-members. The tracking process begins when you initially visit a facebook.com page. If you choose to sign up for a newaccount, Facebook inserts two different types of tracking cookies in your browser, a "session cookie" and a "browser cookie." If you choose not to become a member, and move on, you only get the browser cookie.
-From this point on, each time you visit a third-party webpage that has a Facebook Like button, or other Facebook plug-in, the plug-in works in conjunction with the cookie to alert Facebook of the date, time and web address of the webpage you've clicked to. The unique characteristics of your PC and browser, such as your IP address, screen resolution, operating system and browser version, are also recorded.
-Facebook thus compiles a running log of all your webpage visits for 90 days, continually deleting entries for the oldest day and adding the newest to this log.
If you are logged-on to your Facebook account and surfing the Web, your session cookie conducts this logging. The session cookie additionally records your name, e-mail address, friends and all data associated with your profile to Facebook. If you are logged-off, or if you are a non-member, the browser cookie conducts the logging; it additionally reports a unique alphanumeric identifier, but no personal information.
Bejar acknowledged that Facebook could learn where specific members go on the Web when they are logged off by matching the unique PC and browser characteristics logged by both the session cookie and the browser cookie.
He emphasized that Facebook makes it a point not to do this. " We've said that we don't do it, and we couldn't do it without some form of consent and disclosure," Bejar says.
Bejar also acknowledged "technical similarities" in the cookie-based tracking technologies used by Facebook and the wider online advertising industry. "But we're not like ad networks at all in our stewardship of the data, in the way we use it, and the way we lay everything out," Bejar says. "We have a very clear and transparent approach to how we do advertising that I'm very proud of."
Even so, Facebook's public descriptions of its tracking systems have not satisfied some critics -- particularly European privacy regulators. Ilse Aigner, Germany's minister of consumer protection, last month banned Facebook plug-ins from government websites and advised private companies to do the same.
And Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, expressed alarm at how Facebook's technology could potentially be used to build extensive profiles of individual Web users.
"Whoever visits Facebook or uses a plug-in must expect that he or she will be tracked by the company for two years," Weichert said in a statement. "Such profiling infringes German and European data protection law."
Adding fuel to such concerns, Arnold Roosendaal, a doctoral candidate at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and Nik Cubrilovic, an independent Australian researcher, separately documented how Web pages containing Facebook plug-ins carried out tracking more extensive than Facebook publicly admitted to.
Noyes says Germany doesn't understand how the company's tracking technologies work. And he blames "software bugs" for the indiscriminate tracking discovered by Roosendaal and Cubrilovic.
"When we were made aware that certain cookies were sending more information to us than we had intended, we fixed our cookie management system," Noyes says.
However, researcher Roosendaal says Facebook's tracking cookies retain the capacity to extensively track non-members and logged-off members alike. "They have been confronted with the same issue now several times and every time they call it a bug. That's not really contributing to earning trust."
Some corporate security executives have become concerned about cybercriminals getting hold of tracking data relayed by Like buttons, then using that intelligence to steal intellectual property. They've asked firewall supplier Palo Alto Networks to identify and block traffic from Facebook tracking cookies, while enabling their employees to continue using other Facebook services.
"The concern is that Facebook has rich personal information, which Google doesn't have," says Nir Zuk, founder and chief technology officer for Palo Alto Networks. "Combining that personal information with Web browsing patterns could be revelatory



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[IamDZJ]

the world is out to get catya sher. How pathetic to live a life in fear of everything and anything being out there only and only to bite you the first chance it gets.
Take a deep breath and live.

[sunni]

the world is out to get catya sher. How pathetic to live a life in fear of everything and anything being out there only and only to bite you the first chance it gets.
Take a deep breath and live.

naive.

hmm why dont you read about the Freemasonry whenever you are ready to understand whats up in this world.

[IamDZJ]

naive.

hmm why dont you read about the Freemasonry whenever you are ready to understand whats up in this world.

What is more important?? Me living my life or me knowing what the world is up ? Shouldn't be asking you that question..*I don't give an ef about the world.*

[JAMALUDEEN]

facebook is a waste of time...

[sunni]

What is more important?? Me living my life or me knowing what the world is up ? Shouldn't be asking you that question..*I don't give an ef about the world.*

how do you live your life then?

its like you are living in a room full of **** and dont care about cleaning up. how would you have a nice life then?

well i know you care but your post to catya wasn't right in a way and was right in the other way.

[IamDZJ]

how do you live your life then?
its like you are living in a room full of **** and dont care about cleaning up. how would you have a nice life then?
well i know you care but your post to catya wasn't right in a way and was right in the other way.

That is a mighty interesting way of putting it. Tells alot about you...
If the world was full of it then you would get used to it and quit whining about it all the time or kill yourself and get it over with because you can waste your entire life trying to fix I and not manage to. You fail and you waste your life in the process.
People like catya are fools. They want a better world but they don't want to work for it. They would rather live inside a shell all their lives and then complain about how bad it is out there.
So instead of worrying about the world, I worry about the amount of crap that lays in the path that I follow. That way the next person doesn't have to worry about the entire world being full of it.
Facebook is not evil but if you don't use it responsibly then you will land yourself in trouble. After all, even water becomes poison when you drink too much of it. What will you do?? Stop drinking it?

[Afghanistan2010]

All those who are truely registered with their right name and other details has lost their personality.