Just get rid of Facebook
You are their product and their revenue stream.
The only reason I have a FB account was due to a consulting project. I shut it down after I left, but FB wont delete the account ... ever...
Facebook's new stalker tool
Any time Facebook's marketing and dev teams have a bright idea, the result is another privacy invasion. This time around, it's location services: the ad-farm has decided to suggest strangers as new friends partly based on where you are and where you've been. The Social NetworkTM app tracks the location of your smartphone to …
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Tuesday 28th June 2016 05:27 GMT allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
Great!
Now you can "friend" all your obnoxious neighbours and all those idiot coworkers you have been carefully avoiding! And all the funny guys from that gun store/tatoo parlour/sex shop/day clinic/etc next to the laundromat you use.
Also, groups like AA will be delighted.
Disruptive technology at it's best!
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Tuesday 28th June 2016 07:35 GMT Ole Juul
Freedom of association?
More like random association. So now you can automatically be associated with someone you don't know. In fact you could be associated with someone who could be up to no good. This could be a good tool for Federal investigators looking for people to question. Perhaps you.
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Tuesday 28th June 2016 10:33 GMT Just Enough
a natural extension
So this is just a natural extension of the "People you don't know" feature, where Facebook gives you a list of people that your friends barely know, in the bizarre belief that you might know them at all.
This will just be the "People no-one knows, but you may have seen them hanging about" feature. Or the "People you bloody well do know and spend your life avoiding" feature.
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Tuesday 28th June 2016 11:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
Yes..
..I finally get to know where that hot girl goes when she's not in the pub, what she likes to do and where she goes on a Friday. I can find out if she has kids and what she likes to drink
Saves having to do awkward things like actually talk to her as a human being.
No Joke Icon, because this is no joke, its fucking stupid.
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Tuesday 28th June 2016 21:20 GMT Sebastian A
Re: Yes..
Well if facebook suggests "You may know Jane Doe as you visit the same places frequently" then you've already got the most important piece of info, her name.
I really can't fathom the communal brainfarts that make it to production these days. In this thread alone people have listed a dozen scenarios where this is a horrible, horrible idea. Surely one level-headed middle manager somewhere could have said "Hold up a sec guys..."?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
