No Opt-Out of FB search data

Started by littleman, January 18, 2013, 07:21:40 PM

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IrishWonder

I see people actually deleting their  profiles...

rcjordan

"If you aren't paying for it, you're the product."

Chunkford

>deleting

Only a few probably will, the rest are now so addicted that they would if they could, be physically plug in. Matrix-stylee
"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions"

dogboy

but.... I.... I posted some lame as disclaimer on my wall that exonerated me from such invasion!!

;D

buckworks

I unliked a bunch of things and erased some old posts. That's not a strong defence, but it's a start.

IrishWonder

#6
>Disclaimer
New cottage industry : Facebook spells! Report this spell on your timeline and be protected from getting included in graph search!  ;D

small print: you pay £1.99 per spell per month (subscription based) and the repost contains a link to the app selling spells

rcjordan

Send Zuk a complaint. It'll only cost you a $100.


(mumble, mumble, mumble, damn sheep)

IrishWonder

Just scared my 15-year-old into giving me her FB password.... By telling her about graph search  :o

Gurtie

if people are scared that's quite interesting. Most people make all of this public anyway. Not sure why they feel that Graph Search is so scary if they do.

rcjordan

>make all of this public anyway

Our courthouse/arrest records are public information but people expect them to be buried or at least take some effort to compile. When search engines start automatically displaying a dossier with a simple query people feel violated.  It's not exactly rational, but that's how they react.

Recently, a reporter built a database showing NY gun owners --all public record. When it was published everything hit the fan.

grnidone

You know what.  I don't care.  I should.  But I don't.  I'm over being paranoid about what can be found out about me online.  If I really don't want people to know it, I won't post it.  If they want to dig and "figure it out" well, so be it.

I'm sure this will bite me in the ass later, but really I'm just done with it.

bill

I barely bother with FB these days personally unless I'm using it to get a discount at one of my favorite watering holes. I never had everything public to begin with but I was opted out of search. Now I've got to go in and cull the rest of my public profile? What a PITA!

JasonD

Does anyone have access yet to the Graph search?

It's only available to English (US) and my account is English (UK) - Being able to chat and play with it (screen share would be amazing) would be hugely beneficial to me and much gratitude given.  :-*


IrishWonder