Facebook Privacy

Abrielle Christopher
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-faceb
ook-privacy-hoax-worthless-20150929-story.html
“What Facebook wants is your data. And it already has it. Facebook wants to know your age, gender, religion,
marital status, hometown, level of education and general interests so that it can better target advertisements
to you. You have almost certainly already given it this information.” While reading this article, it talks about
how facebook's main goal is to gain data on their users to better cater ads to each profile on facebook.
Facebook lacks privacy for each user and this article proves it.
https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/
2023/Meta-Reports-Second-Quarter-2023-Results/default.
aspx
Facebook earned 32 billion in revenue from gaining information and catering
specific ads to each user.
https://about.fb.com/news/2019/07/understand-why-youre-
seeing-ads/
When reading this article I learned that you can click “why are you showing this
ad” on facebook to understand why that ad is being shown to you. Facebook uses
your age, hometown, marital status, school, etc. to cater your ads to you. A way to
keep some privacy from facebook would be to not fill in these sections on your
profile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s&theme
Refresh=1
During this ted talk I learned that the internets algorithms go through so many ads
before they conclude on the ones they show on your pages. When downloading
an app, if fearful of information being shared by facebook, read the rules
presented to your very early on. Facebook discloses with you about them using
your information for ads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRrgD-4-D8s
During this video Its talked about how much facebook would sell for because of
how much information/data they are harboring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqnfGXqdV7g
There are measures you can take to not allow facebook to have your information.
You can make your profile completely private.
https://hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/
I learned about SIFT during this article. SIFT stands for stop, investigate the
source, find better coverage, and trace claims. Knowing this information, it is easy
double check the information your posting/ friends are posting/ on your feed.
Infographic
This infographic was
conducted in 2019. This
shows the privacy
concerns with users/non
users of facebook.
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ohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&bquery=facebook+and+
privacy&cli0=FT1&clv0=Y&cli1=RV&clv1=Y&cli2=DT1&clv
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The sites I found are: "Not all my friends are friends": Audience‐group‐based nudges for managing location privacy. by :
Ghosh Isha and Singh Vivek. And I wanna share this, but. . .: explicating invested costs and privacy concerns of social
grooming behaviors in Facebook and users’ well-being and social capital by: Lin JH, Yang JW, Cook CL

“The nudges remind users that their real‐time location information may be visible to a larger group of friends than they expect.” This quote
is from the first article I read. Showing that your data is shared with other friends and facebook.