Delete all you want, but Facebook never forgets. At least when it comes to your defriendings, pokes, and RSVPS, it doesn’t. And it also has a keen memory for what computers you’ve used, and who you were sharing those computers with. Your Facebook dossier can easily run to hundreds of pages, as some European citizens have learned.
Across the pond, where regulators have teeth and where corporations don’t get to rewrite the legal definition of “privacy,” citizens can force Facebook to send them a dossier of everything it knows about them. Two anonymous Europeans have shared their database dumps publicly, Forbes reports. One of them ran to 880 pages.
For a user who joined the site in 2007, dubbed “LB” by Forbes, Facebook’s data included the following:
- Records of all friend requests LB rejected.
- Records of the 12+ friends LB hasunfriended over the years.
- A list of devices from which LB logged in to Facebook, plus a list of other users on those machines. Meaning Facebook knows who spent the night at your place last night.
- Records of more than 50 incoming “pokes” since 2008, including most often by a friend named “T.V.”
- Some 75 event invites, along with 38 RSVPs.
- A history of messages and chats.
Facebook really does have us all by the nuts. Which is why it’s comforting that the companyroutinely acts in the best interest of its users and their privacy, even when it means sacrificing revenue. Yay Facebook!
You know, every day I get this much closer to deleting my Facebook account forever.
Mom’s Gold Star
Sometimes the Gold Star goes to parents. Other times, like today, it very, very much doesn’t. K.’s insistence on people “cleaning up” their language on their Facebook pages reminds me of this post wherein a delightful lady named Erin very politely reminds her friends to stop cussing in their status updates. It’s been six months since that post, and I still think it’s completely ridiculous. People are going to post whatever they want on Facebook because that’s how it was designed.
But more importantly, why IS K.’s daughter reading anything on Facebook? I understand she might look over K.’s shoulder while K. is on Facebook, but to me that’s an indication that K. should get off Facebook, as opposed to requesting that everyone else change their behavior. I mean, is K. on Facebook to connect and maintain relationships with friends or to teach ‘lil K. how to read?? I think that’s what T. is getting at, and that’s why T. wins this week’s Gold Star. Congrats, T.! You make perfect sense.
PS: It’s statuses, K., not status’. It seems that you’re confusing plurals and possessives.
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i cannot fucking believe this, not adding any more of drew doobie’s friends on facebook.
fuck yea well said grrrl. put that fucker in his place. i haven’t heard someone say that so articulately before.
What an amazing piece of shit. And a great comeback. Well said.
oh my god
the joy of youropenbook is the photos
PEARL HARBOR HAPPENED 70 YEARS AGO YOU CUNTS.
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF THE US HAD A HORRIBLE NATURAL DISASTER AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE WE’VE FUCKED OVER SAID “lolno remember what you did 50 years ago yeah fuck you”
no. omfg.
^^^
omg people just piss me off
Also, does anybody remember how WWII ended with Japan?
WE NUKED TWO OF THEIR FUCKING CITIES FOR FUCK’S SAKE, YOU IGNORANT FUCKS!
just reblogging again for this excellent addition
Oh my god, you racist assholes. Shut up shut up shut up shut the fuck up.
I want to nuke them, but that would be inhumane. So I’ll just send thoughts for karma to have her way with them.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW
you fucks sound like my Grandfather, his ship was hit by a kamikaze in WWII and he was one of the first ships to land on Japan after the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. even he, 50+ years later has begun to get over it. we fucked their country up. it’s in the fucking past. we need to be apologizing to them for what we did. 2 bombs dropped and then NEVER used again. there is a reason our world has avoided using those. America just jumped the gun.
I really hate being exposed to the thought processes of the average person. It makes me want to die.
