I found this article that stated Facebook had been tracking
users after they had logged out of the social networking site. This article was dated on September 19, 2011,
so it is still quite recent. A guy named
Nik Cubrilovic from Australia had noticed that rather than deleting its
tracking cookies, once the user had logged out, Facebook was modifying
them. So basically Facebook was tracking
what sites users were going on after and what they were searching. Although Facebook claims that they did not
store any information it should have, this is how I believe they relate so many
different apps and advertisements to you.
For instance on the side of my Facebook home page I may have an
advertisement for rugby Canada gear, as I may have been on the rugby Canada
website recently. Facebook is now more
connected to users through the ‘like’ button.
Users are able to like a company, product, band, a person, etc. on
Facebook, and Facebook can relate to users through this and send personal apps
and advertisements. Many businesses,
example Pogue Fado in Halifax don’t even update their information anymore on
their actual website, just on their Facebook page. Here are two links to look at: http://www.dma.org.uk/news/facebook-vows-fix-online-privacy-breach
and http://www.poguefado.com/
Honesty, its just as impressive as it is scary how Facebook is able to alter and strengthen our online profile. It is easily today's most powerful social media tool, as well as network builder, communicator etc. I wonder if it will just keep growing out of control or if it will ever be managed tightly to reduce risks. I saw today that people were posting new terms and conditions because there terms and policies have changed since being a publicly traded company?? Not quite sure why people are so worried about this but I would like to look into it.
ReplyDeleteYa it is pretty crazy to think that every little bit of information that you put on Facebook is owned by them, and is now available to other sites, such as Spokeo.com. I personally believe that someday, everyone will be connected in the sense you could literally find anyone in the world.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad Rob found Spokeo for our presentation, I have showed the site to many of my friends and have surprised them all. It is so incredibly scary how easy it is to find information about people's lives based on created profiles on the web, as well as internet protocols.
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