>make a Facebook account because friends beg me to >put

>>62092361
It's the current year and there's no escape from the botnet.

They looked you up you were in their address book when it was imported

>>62092409
But I don't have any of those people in my address book.

>>62092452
they have you in their address book

>>62092480
Freaky.

>>62092361
>willingly being mark zuckerbergs product to sell to advertisters

You make the SICK.

>>62092361
it is really creepy. i created an account and lots of people from the city i used to live showed up in my recommendations, without any information about it.

>>62092361
Apparently facebook found this woman's great aunt that she didn't even know existed.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/08/25/168255/facebook-figured-out-my-family-secrets-and-it-wont-tell-me-how

>>62092361
maybe they had a ghost profile on you and when you decided to join. their algorithm thought you might know them somehow and recommended them as friends. if you viewed their profile but didn't add them then it probably thought that there was some connection.

>>62092361
Should I avoid putting a ton of info on Facebook? Like my college and stuff like that? What's the risk?

Facebook is finished and bankrupt

>>62092491
THIS POST MADE ME HAVE THE SICK

>>62092361
>H-HOW
It blows my mind how retarded some people can be. It is extremely easy to make mathematical correlations from interconnected data, ie, who's friends with who. Ever heard of six degrees of separation? This isn't even a remotely new concept, and being """"afraid of the botnet"""" because of this is as stupid as being scared of advertising demographics.

If you don't understand how they work then you're dumb.

>>62095164
Fuck off mark

>>62094564
>helping zuckerstein with facial recognition

>>62094564
>>62096234

misread info for photo.
Time for bed I guess

>>62092361

There's a database out there with your name address and everything you probably ever searched on the internet.

Most likely not used for anything bad, other than advertisers using it to construct a list of things you like and hate so they know what to sell to you.

>>62096619
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA I WANT OUT LEAVE ME ALONEEEEE

>>62092361
They build shadow profiles of people who don't even use their site with information their friends give them. Personally avoiding the botnet is no longer enough if you have friends who are apart of the botnet.

>>62092361
Once your name is in Facebook's servers, in any form, a mention in a private chat, listed in the contact list of someone else, leaked by some other web service that loaded a share-on-Facebook button, your face appearing in someone's photo, your geolocation overlapping with someone else's, your voice being heard by another user's phone, anything, you'll have a Facebook account.
When you thought you'd create one you just activated the one that's been waiting for you for years.
Welcome to the current year.