Some Disturbing Things Facebook Knows About You Right Now
Facebook is not just spying on our interests and activities but our lifestyle, political alignment, deepest secrets and other personal issues we...
Published 5 years ago in Wow
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Facebook monitors you so closely that it probably knows you better than you do. As you are about to find out, deleting your Facebook account or even refusing to use Facebook or any of its sister services will not stop Facebook from tracking you. Facebook creates and maintains a profile page for you even if you do not use any of its services and that is just the tip of the iceberg.Facebook knows your political ideology even if you have never revealed it on any of its apps or liked the page of a political candidate. Facebook determines your political leaning by looking at your activities across its services. It then uses this information to categorize you as a liberal, moderate or conservative.
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Facebook knows when you are in love, months before you officially post in on your profile or wall. Thanks to years of analyzing billions (or even trillions) of data, Facebook can accurately predict the behavior to two would-be lovebirds. Facebook knows something is brewing when it notices a sudden increase in the comments and engagement between two people. Would-be lovebirds start leaving an average of 1.53 posts per day on each other’s wall 85 days before making their relationship official. This increases to 1.67 posts per day 12 days before the relationship begins.
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Facebook saves the details of every call, SMS and MMS you send or receive. It saves everything about these phone calls including the names and phone numbers of the caller and recipient and the date, time and duration of the phone call. Facebook retains this information for years. In 2018, some users who downloaded their data archives containing information Facebook had on them, found call logs and SMS messages dating back to 2015. Luckily for iOS users, this extreme breach of privacy is limited to Android devices since Apple does not allow third-party apps access such information.
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Even just your mere existance.Many people do not use Facebook or have deleted their Facebook accounts over privacy concerns. However, this does not mean they are free of Facebook’s nosiness. Facebook minds your business even if you do not use its services. It knows you exist and has probably created a profile for you on Facebook. Everyone has a Facebook profile as long as they have friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, etc. that use Facebook. These so-called shadow profiles are literally invisible to the naked eye, since they only exist on Facebook’s servers.
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Where you are..location. Google is infamous for its insatiable interest in information about your location. However, it has an undeclared competitor, one that we often overlook in issues relating to “location theft”, Facebook. Facebook knows where you are at every moment. If you feel that is creepy, we should add that it also stores this information on its servers. So it knows everywhere you have been to, long after you have left and probably forgotten you were ever there. Facebook tracks you using the Facebook app on your phone. The app tracks you every time, even when it is not in use. Facebook offers everyone the option of limiting the app’s tracking feature or even switching it off completely but as others have found out, Facebook still tracks you even if you opt out
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They know if you are pregnant.Facebook has refused to release information on how it identifies pregnant women. However, it said it rarely uses data from a lady’s status update to determine if they are pregnant. This revelation is actually very creepy even though it is supposed to be comforting. A status update is supposed to be the likeliest way to know if a woman is pregnant, isn’t it? This even contradicts what Facebook told an advertiser about how it identifies pregnant women. It said it determines the likelihood of a woman being pregnant based on what they post on Facebook.
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They know when you are sleeping.Facebook knows when you are asleep and awake. If you do not have a problem with that, wait until you hear that it made this data publicly available to everyone. Anyone capable of writing a bit of code to extract this information from Facebook’s Messenger will know your sleep pattern. Messenger contains features that detects when you are using the app on any of your devices. By writing a code to check the status of everyone on their friend list, a person can determine when their friends are online, offline or online but idle. They can then use this information to determine when they are awake and asleep
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Back to relationships, Facebook can predict when you and your partner are about to breakup, even before either of you realizes it. So be rest assured a breakup is underway by the time you start seeing dating site ads on your newsfeed. You either tighten those loose ends or just click on the ads to try your luck with someone else. Facebook does not predict your breakup based on the pictures you take with your lover or how frequently you communicate. Rather, it determines it based on your mutual friends and your relationship with your partner’s close friends. Facebook considers your relationship healthy if you and your partner have many mutual friends and if you are close to your partner’s close friend
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