Post: #26

Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $22 BILLION in late 2014.

Post: #27

Also be aware that there's a separate privacy setting for people to find you using your phone number, no idea when that got added but it was how someone found me! I had it set as only friends of friends could find me although the phone number search overrode it?!

Post: #28

I remember when I first started using the Facebook app on my phone, my phone number was publicly displayed on my profile. I had never added it, and couldn't remove it if I wanted to keep using the app, so I changed the security settings so that only I could see the number.

Facebook seem to have a tendency to change their policies / settings every now and then which can make private items on your profile public. You need to regularly check your security settings to ensure your privacy.

I have also received 'people you may know' recommendations based on friends of friends (of friends).

Post: #29

I wonder if Facebook keeps tabs on what websites you visit, I'm almost certain it does through cookies and other means. Wouldn't it be easy for Facebook to know the identities of RVF members if they track the websites you visit and have the ability to make our identities public if they wanted to?

Post: #30

I wonder if there will be an alternative one day that won't be bought by the usual suspects (google etc)
We all know what happens once they get a hold of something.

Post: #31

(03-21-2016 02:20 PM)hedonist Wrote:  I wonder if there will be an alternative one day that won't be bought by the usual suspects (google etc)
We all know what happens once they get a hold of something.

That's pretty easy to do. You simply need to run it as a private company and resist the inevitable death threats that come along with not handing over control.

Post: #32

The only thing facebook is any good for is for observation of how stupid people are these days. Most of the nonsense people put up there is so hideously awful that it really gives one a sense for why the country is where its at. If people had less time and better things to do, facebook wouldn't be anywhere but lets face it, so many people spend all day on that shit because they have nothing else going on. Or when they once in a while have stuff going on, they post it and make themselves out to be supreme ballers. It really gives me such an insight into the psychology of people today but other than that, it is a total waste of time and a total invasion of your privacy.

Post: #33

I quit FB for a few years after they advertised to me based on a back problem I had as a child. The only possibilities were that they had medical records or a poorly calibrated marketing algorithm(if I was 60+ the ad would have been the expected sort.)

I rejoined for Tinder, not like they will exclude you from their info gathering simply because you don't have an active account.

Post: #34

I hate to sound like a broken record but get the FUCK off Facebook already!


Seriously, if you consider yourself a masculine man then you have no business being on that site. What are the upsides? No privacy, feminist snark, digital lynch mobs, pictures of what some fat cunt ate for dinner, constant recycled memes that were on 4chan like 5 years ago, fat acceptance, gay normalization bullshit, white knighting to the extreme, and of course dealing with every idiot with a chip on their shoulder being given a soapbox from which to spew their bile.


FUCK Facebook and FUCK Zuckerberg.

Post: #35

"becoming"?????

Where the fuck have you been, pal?

Post: #36

Maxing out all your security settings helps, so people can't search you on facebook or via google. Don't have any personal info and don't let people tag you in pictures or have non-friends be able to see anything through a mutual friend.

Even have a really vague profile picture so a person wouldn't be able to for sure be able to identify your profile just through a profile picture.

Post: #37

I don't have FB now, but if you needed one for your tinderellas, or wanted to see pictures of family if you were a traveling man (or any other self-justified reason); I would suggest restricting the privacy settings as much as possible, including things that make you difficult to find. That way you are the one doing the search and add.

A vague profile picture has been mentioned, but you are also not technically required to use your full or real name. Whether you're trying to keep your work HR, SJW's, or whomever in the dark, doesn't matter really. Just set up your profile name to be your first name and use something else (i.e., your middle name) as the surname. You don't have to be James Robert Smith, Jim Bob should be acceptable with a verified burner email address. The more common your name, the harder you'll be to find and identify, especially if you refuse to fill out any of Facebook's biographical and/or geographical information prompts. If you use a little creative thinking, there are plenty of ways to leverage this strategy and tailor to each individual. I first noticed this when people who were networking for a new job wanted to ask for career advice and suggestions, they'd change their name so they could avoid being fired from their current position for their disloyal posts.

If you don't want it connected to your cell, just use the Computer platform only and skip the app download. Then just stay silent, no comments, likes, posts, etc. Not sure how this meshes with hookup apps, but it's better than shining a spotlight on yourself.

Post: #38

(03-21-2016 08:01 AM)TheOllam Wrote:  Complete removal from FB? Head in sand much?

It's like saying, "I don't want to drive because people get in car accidents"

Social Media is not going away, what's happening is society is catching up with technology.

That said, I keep out of the way of wackos on FB, and disengage from folks too far down the wrong path (This goes for extremists on both the Left and Right)

Also, FB is a great reminder for me not to get married in USA:

I have 2 male cousins, both married with kids, of course frustrated because they've subconsciously realized they are getting the bad end the marriage market only after the fact.

However, consciously they post stupid shit on FB supporting Bernie, bitching about global warming, 1%ers, how conservatives are "obviously" racist because they don't support Obama enough, how we need to give more support to women, lot's of Mangina blah blah.

Meanwhile, it's women that have dominated their life.

Even weak Men need SOMETHING to dominate, so they take it out on FB by sharing frustration with the world. (Pretty weak, but that's what it is...)

So sit back and enjoy. Don't be afraid of Social Media, just don't run around in traffic like a child on the highway.

Hey newbie, watch the tone.

There's no good reason to use facebook, and plenty of reasons not to. As for me, anyone I want contacting me already knows how to.

Post: #39

Facebook accesses your phone's GPS and recommends people as friends who it also tracked as being in the same location with you. Facebook also accesses your phone's microphone to monitor your speech for phrases it can then use to display targeted advertisements based those keywords.

Facebook is literally, and I mean literally, a surveillance tool, and a highly sophisticated one at that. Anyone using it at this point is either ignorant of these facts, or willfully allowing themselves to be spied on in the most egregious manner.

Post: #40

(03-21-2016 02:20 PM)hedonist Wrote:  I wonder if there will be an alternative one day that won't be bought by the usual suspects (google etc)
We all know what happens once they get a hold of something.

There's this:

http://www.mewe.com

Post: #41

Don't use your real name on facebook. Change it now if you use a real one.

Post: #42

(03-21-2016 08:01 AM)TheOllam Wrote:  Complete removal from FB? Head in sand much?

It's like saying, "I don't want to drive because people get in car accidents"

Social Media is not going away, what's happening is society is catching up with technology.

I have three rules when it comes to deciding whether or not I use or participate in something:

Does it get me laid?

Does it get me paid?

Do I enjoy it?

If the answer is not "yes" to at least ONE of the following, I don't waste my time with it.

Facebook fails to offer any of the above. It's a complete waste of time, pure and simple.

Post: #43

(03-21-2016 07:50 PM)scorpion Wrote:  Facebook is literally, and I mean literally, a surveillance tool, and a highly sophisticated one at that. Anyone using it at this point is either ignorant of these facts, or willfully allowing themselves to be spied on in the most egregious manner.

OP....


   

Post: #44

(03-21-2016 04:09 PM)Red_Pillage Wrote:  I hate to sound like a broken record but get the FUCK off Facebook already!


Seriously, if you consider yourself a masculine man then you have no business being on that site. What are the upsides? No privacy, feminist snark, digital lynch mobs, pictures of what some fat cunt ate for dinner, constant recycled memes that were on 4chan like 5 years ago, fat acceptance, gay normalization bullshit, white knighting to the extreme, and of course dealing with every idiot with a chip on their shoulder being given a soapbox from which to spew their bile.


FUCK Facebook and FUCK Zuckerberg.

Word. It's by far the most femine/beta of all the social medias.

Post: #45

Same issues here before I deleted the Crackbook account. It trolls your computer, phone and texts. I had contact with a chick only via PoF emails and never through my phone. She magically showed up on the "people you know" section. Found a few chicks on there that I had only PoFed or only texted. My phone was a crazy old LG Blackberry knockoff without FB.

Tl;dr: FB trolls everything you use to connect to it.

Post: #46

Thanks all. Had a second redpill moment this morning reading the insightful comments. Have not used FB app ever, so have not experienced quite the same issues, but still......

I'm changing the way I look at social media......

Post: #47

(03-21-2016 07:50 PM)scorpion Wrote:  Facebook accesses your phone's GPS and recommends people as friends who it also tracked as being in the same location with you. Facebook also accesses your phone's microphone to monitor your speech for phrases it can then use to display targeted advertisements based those keywords.

Facebook is literally, and I mean literally, a surveillance tool, and a highly sophisticated one at that. Anyone using it at this point is either ignorant of these facts, or willfully allowing themselves to be spied on in the most egregious manner.

This is huge.

Several times now I have had people come up on my recommended lists I have only been at a location with. Exchanged no electronic information with, not numbers, emails, adds, nothing.

A couple of weeks ago I was hanging with some friends and a chick was talking about someone she met, she brought up his FB profile to illustrate a point about his appearance. A day later that bloke showed up in my list. She is a friend on FB but that bloke is a ghost to me. Something tagged that interaction with our location and reacted accordingly. Shit ain't right.

Post: #48

(03-21-2016 06:49 AM)pitt Wrote:  Facebook doesn't have my phone number or gmail account.

Sorry, but they do have your phone number and email address. Even if you didn't have a Facebook account and hadn't ever used the site, they would still have it...

How? Plenty of your friends and colleagues have the Facebook app installed on their phones. Every time they log in, it uploads their contacts. Facebook only needs a handful of people with your name and number in their phones to create a profile of you. They'll know the nickname your family calls you, the name you use at work, the 'cute' name your exes use, etc.
If you do have a Facebook account, chances are a few of your acquaintances have you on their friends list. That makes it very easy to link your number to your account, even if you didn't provide it.

Avoiding the site, deleting your profile, etc. is basically useless. They have a shadow profile of you based on your name and phone number. As soon as you sign up and add a few friends, the shadow profile will come back haunt you.

Things you can do to counter it:
- change your number regularly, use burner numbers, and use multiple numbers as 'silos' (a number for work contacts, a number for friends, a burner number for bangs. don't mix them)
- use fake names as often as possible (use more than one, otherwise your fake identity will eventually correlate with your real one)
- stop giving people your number - find another way to communicate. Try using Telegram, but make sure you set up a random nickname unrelated to your identity
- create a Facebook profile with your real first name and a fake last name (use something common like "Jones"), add your real number, post photos of someone else, and add a lot of random contacts. I.e. fill it full of false information to make it useless. Add a few of your real friends to confuse the system.

Post: #49

(03-21-2016 03:49 AM)Patriarch Wrote:  Yeah a while ago Facebook was recommending several girls I had dated or fucked, but I'd only ever communicated with them through Viber. I wish you could turn that "feature" off. If I didn't use Facebook to advertise for Trump, I'd just delete my account.

The best you can do is to set your privacy to maximum and your profile picture to that of someone else. Try to change your last name if it will let you.

In future, best to use a burner number for girls...

Post: #50

I deleted my facebook account 7 years ago.
Never regretted it.