re: Help me understand this Facebook drama.

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used for nefarious purposes.

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Translation for the purposes of media narrative: Offered to the Trump campaign so they could better specialize political messages.

***What's not much spoke of is that while CA did this and offered it to the Trump admin where they used it only in the primaries. Meanwhile, back in 2012, did pretty much the same thing but gathered far more data.

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In 2012, the Obama campaign encouraged supporters to download an Obama 2012 Facebook app that, when activated, let the campaign collect Facebook data both on users and their friends.

According to a July 2012 MIT Technology Review article, when you installed the app, "it said it would grab information about my friends: their birth dates, locations, and 'likes.' "

The campaign boasted that more than a million people downloaded the app, which, given an average friend-list size of 190, means that as many as 190 million had at least some of their Facebook data vacuumed up by the Obama campaign — without their knowledge or consent.

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This is of no consequence because Trump.
-Sky screamers

The problem is the conservatives used it in the election, but you didn't hear a peep when they gave Obama any info he desired.

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This is why I deleted my account. I wanted Trump to win and all but I'm tired of all my info being out there all the time. Plus, it has become the cesspool of our humanity, it's literally made folks dumber.

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It's addictive and they purposely spike your feed to trigger you. It's awful. Twitter is the same - maybe worse because there's less context and more anonymity.

The one decent thing that Facebook has done is a pretty good job of ensuring that people are representing themselves and not using avatars.

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Twitter is the same - maybe worse

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Twitter is a cesspool as well, but at least with Twitter you have a little more control on what shows up in your feed. Blocking obvious bots and trolls, muting replies from people that don't follow you, choosing who to follow, etc. I only get on my Facebook maybe once every week or two, and it's always a jumbled mess, even though I've set it to show newest posts first. I don't care that Bill that I went to high school with Liked an article in the Wall Street Journal.

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I don't care that Bill that I went to high school with Liked an article in the Wall Street Journal.

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I am no longer able to troll on FB because my fiancee' sees literally every thing I post. It sucks.

You all have no idea what you are agreeing to when you install apps. It's bad enough using social media sites on desktop computers with a VPN and appropriate browser plugins. Smartphones are like walking down the street bare arse naked.

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Facebook has access to your phone calls and texts?

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Only on Android phones if you have Facebook Messenger installed from what I understand.

I cancelled installing Facebook Messenger when it asked to be the default SMS texting app during the set up.

Some people are down playing it, but it is a big deal.

If you are a normal user of Facebook, they know more about you than your parents or spouse. It is more than just knowing your likes and messages. It is the kick arse data mining they have that builds a profile of you.

They track where you go, what you buy, where you shop. Active time and relax time.

The best thing you can do is stay away from social media, but many will not.

I am trying to reduce my footprint, however the damage is already done for my privacy. My goal is to protect my kids privacy though, lessons have been learned.