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Facebook photo privacy6/2/2023 ![]() Once you’re signed up for Facebook, the data collection and mining begin in earnest. That is almost all the information you’re required to furnish when you’re applying for a credit card online. They collect your name, your email address or phone number, your gender, and your birthdate. Let’s go over it section by section, shall we? Your Activity and Information You Provideįacebook collects information from you when you sign up for their social network. Once you’re on the Facebook Privacy page, click the first link, the one entitled: “What information do we collect?”Īs you’ll soon find out, Facebook collects just about everything you can think of about you and your connection, and maybe a few things you didn’t think of. To take a look at Facebook’s own listing of what types of information they collect, scroll down to the bottom of your Facebook page and look in the lower left-hand corner for the “Privacy” link, as shown below. The amount and types of info that Facebook collects about you varies depending on what services and such you make use of on the social network. This section of the article should have actually been entitled, “What Kind of Information Facebook DOESN’T Collect.” It would have been a much shorter section, believe me. It offers a great amount of information on what type of data the service collects, how they use that data for their own operations, how they share it, and much more. ![]() What Kind of Information Facebook Collectsīefore starting to lock down your profile, I’m going to go over some of the interesting information that is included on the Facebook Privacy page. While it’s impossible to completely lock your Facebook profile down, I’ll share some tips that will allow you to keep the important parts of your Facebook profile private, while still allowing you to enjoy the service and stay in touch with friends and family. ![]() In this article, I’m going to guide you through the many ways you can keep your Facebook profile private from the moment you first set it up.Īnd, for those of you who have been using Facebook and oversharing your private info with advertisers and scam artists, I’m going to show you how to make your profile private again. ![]() There is still hope for you – and your privacy. Go help others by sharing my tale of woe.” “But, it’s too late for me,” I can hear many of you say. The social network’s parent company, Meta collected nearly $118 billion in revenue during 2021, a 37.18% increase from close to $86 billion in revenue during 2020.Īll of this is based on personal information that the service’s users give up completely voluntarily. How Does Facebook Make Money?įacebook sells the personal data it collects from you to its advertisers, so they can better target ads to convince you to buy things. What this means is that while Facebook doesn’t charge you a monthly fee (and most likely never will, contrary to many online rumors), it does take something from you that’s much more valuable: your personal information. Let’s face it, if you use Facebook, you’re probably sharing more about yourself and your private information than you should be.įacebook is a “free” online social network. I’ve often said that if you look up a list of antonyms for the word “privacy” that “Facebook” would be at the top of the list.
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