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Blunt UNICEF Ad Points Out That ‘Likes’ Don’t Save Lives

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laughingsquid: If Facebook isn’t thinking about buying Tumblr, it should be — What do you guys think about this? Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Click for high-res photo

laughingsquid:

If Facebook isn’t thinking about buying Tumblr, it should be — What do you guys think about this?

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

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shortformblog: Today in the New York Times: One guy’s embarrassing Facebook ad saga hits the front page Meet Nick Bergus. He’s a pretty cool guy who once linked to an odd product on Facebook as a bit of a joke — a 55-gallon barrel of lube from Amazon.com. Ha ha, funny, right? But the joke was on him, as Facebook’s algorithms started featuring his smiling face in personalized ads featuring the giant barrel of lube. From there, his story spread — first to his personal blog, then to Gawker, with an amazing headline. Now, Bergus’ somewhat embarrassing (but admittedly kind of awesome) tale is on the front page of the New York Times. All because he once linked to a giant barrel of lube. (photo by Stephen Mally/NYT) Wait. What? Facebook can profit from my image without my consent? Or is that a clause in the ToS? Did everyone just hand over their rights by using Facebook? As if there aren’t enough reasons to hate these jokers already, yeesh. Click for high-res photo

shortformblog:

Today in the New York Times: One guy’s embarrassing Facebook ad saga hits the front page

Meet Nick Bergus. He’s a pretty cool guy who once linked to an odd product on Facebook as a bit of a joke — a 55-gallon barrel of lube from Amazon.com. Ha ha, funny, right? But the joke was on him, as Facebook’s algorithms started featuring his smiling face in personalized ads featuring the giant barrel of lube. From there, his story spread — first to his personal blog, then to Gawker, with an amazing headline. Now, Bergus’ somewhat embarrassing (but admittedly kind of awesome) tale is on the front page of the New York Times. All because he once linked to a giant barrel of lube. (photo by Stephen Mally/NYT)

Wait. What? Facebook can profit from my image without my consent? Or is that a clause in the ToS? Did everyone just hand over their rights by using Facebook? As if there aren’t enough reasons to hate these jokers already, yeesh.

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Open Graph is a development tool that lets third-party apps and sites report your activities back to Facebook. It’s meant to extend or replace the Like button. It’s a way for sites and services to jack directly into Facebook from anywhere. If companies use Open Graph, they can publish to your Ticker and Timeline, too, effectively sending tattle-tale updates on anything you do to everyone you know, in real time. And then Facebook gets to keep that data forever. It is the ultimate collection tool, a way for Facebook to monitor you, wherever you go.
Facebook wants to share everything you do online with the world, whether you want to or not. This is on top of a cookie that tracks your activity even when you’re logged out of Facebook. People are upset over Spotify requiring new users to sign up through Facebook, but this isn’t going to be the end of it.
matrixagent: *sigh* Click for high-res photo

matrixagent:

*sigh*

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Hints Facebook Is Becoming a Full-On Identification Service

infoneer-pulse:

Facebook’s facial recognition software might not be so harmless. A recent study from Carnegie Mellon finds that the technology can help researchers locate people’s social security numbers, just from the information on their Facebook profiles and their photo. When first released, Facebookers noted the inherent creepiness of facial recognition, but now that the tool can double as personal identification software, the technology is looking even more iffy. With this increased ability to ID its users, Facebook is slowly morphing from a social network to a possible identification service.

» via The Atlantic

Holy shit.

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Facebook is for maintaining relationships, Twitter for broadcasting, Tumblr for quotations and Google+ for sharing
Who’s a friend? Who’s an acquaintance? Yeah boy, what would we do if we didn’t have experts to set us straight.

Facebook: Yeah, we’re planning to give out your personal info

shortformblog:

  • YES Facebook will share your address with 3rd parties source

This came up in mid-January but evidently was shelved, and now they’re having another go at it. Guys, if you want to keep using Facebook, at least remove your address and phone number(s) so that they’re not there for Facebook to steal.

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Facebook apps can now access your phone number and home address

infoneer-pulse:

In the past we’ve warned about the importance of keeping an eye on which Facebook apps have access to your account. In future, that will be all the more important as Facebook has announced that it now lets developers access your phone number and address, if they choose, when you use their apps.

It’s worth noting that Facebook is only making this data available if you specifically approve it – apps you’ve already approved won’t have automatic access to the information. So, next time you install a Facebook app, look out for the “Access my contact information: Current Address and Mobile Phone Number” permission request.

» via The Next Web

More at Sophos.

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