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Here Are 80 Deeply Personal Things That Facebook Knows About You Right Now
It’s not a comprehensive list, but still…
Nobody knows how to get you to willingly share your personal information quite like Facebook, and in light of theirrevamped privacy policies, here’s a by-no-means comprehensive list of what the biggest social network in the world knows about you (if you let it).
1. Your full name.
2. Your birthday.
3.Your religious views.
4. Your political views.
5. Languages you speak.
6. Your screen name (lol).
7. Your cell phone number.
8. Your favorite quotations.
9. Access to all the contacts inside your personal email account.
10. Your picture, personal photo albums.
11. Your high school.
12. What year you graduated high school.
13. If you didn’t graduate high school.
14. Your hometown.
15. Your college.
16. What year you graduated college.
17. If you didn’t graduate college.18. Your employer.
19. Your past employers.
20. When you got engaged.
21. When you got married.
22. When you got divorced.
23. When you broke up.
24. When you were in an open relationship.
25. When it was “complicated.”
26. Your current location.
27. Your exact residence/address.
28. Any personal website you’ve ever made.
29. Your past and present relationships.
30. Your family members.
31. Movies you’ve watched.
32. Movies you’d like to watch.
33. TV shows you’ve watched.
34. TV shows you’d like to watch.
35. Books you’d like to read.
36. Books you’ve read.
37. Places you’ve visited.
38. Your favorite public figures.
39. Your favorite actors/directors.
40. Your favorite bands/musicians.
41. Your favorite TV shows.
42. Your favorite books.
43. Your favorite movies.
44. Your favorite news sources.
45. Your favorite “inspirational people.”
46. Your favorite restaurants.
47. Your favorite foods.
48. Your favorite websites.
49. Your favorite athletes.
50 .Your favorite sports teams.
51. Your favorite clothing.
52. Your favorite “interests and activities.”
This was an informative, thought-provoking article, and I’m so glad you shared with us. Many of the things in the list FB does NOT know about me, but only because I make a conscious effort not to provide or share that information. However, that said, I’m sure there is way too much about me that FB does know, even though I mostly use my account to look at pictures, recipes, etc. all my friends post. I seldom post or share anything, and I never ‘like’ anything after I read how that works… Reading this list is causing me to think again about just closing my FB account. How important can it be to know what everyone else is doing? And should I care? Thanks again for all you do, and the many ways you help us stay computer and internet savvy!
Hi guys,
You do a brilliant job (I have been a member for more years than I care to remember), but seriously, your starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel, some of you articles (like this) seem to come straight from the sensationalist media, not like you at all. I mean ‘deeply personal’? seriously?
It would be if it had the last time I was drunk, the last time I cheated on my wife (Im single by the way) things that I didn’t put there for everyone of my friends to see…. whats the drama?
Keep up the great work, and less of the sensationalist stuff..
This article was not sensationalism it was both good advice and facts. It reminded people to use care on Facebook and other social networking sites — and to remember what you post is there forever. Sensationalism to us means causing unfounded fear by taking something like an obscure Trojan that only one in seven-hundred million will ever be exposed to and making it seem like everyone is at great risk. Facebook is more and more becoming a treasure trove of personal information ripe for picking by advertisers and governments all around the world. Since Facebook claims to 1.2 billion members, there are millions of people who are giving up personal information without thinking.
Additionally, we did not write the article. It was posted only FYI not as an opinion piece written by us. Many people who use our site also use Facebook. Everyone needs to be careful on the Web and to be aware that personal data posted on the Web is virtually indelible.
We consider phone numbers, street addresses, combined with real names to be deeply personal. I’m sure most others do as well.
Very interesting, as I’m not a fan of Facebook or others like them. They want to collect and store endless information on the individual and make large dollops of cash from it, by selling it on. Nothing seems to be private any longer, while people seem to be gullible to these companies and their requests to fill in those forms.
So far I have resisted all efforts to get me to join FB and don’t still don’t see any need for it. I think the disadvantages outweigh any benefits. Your article confirms my opinion. However, I don’t suppose it really matters if the whole world knows all that private stuff. It probably isn’t going to hurt any law-abiding citizens.
I joined Facebook for a specific purpose years ago. I was never comfortable providing all that personal information for the WORLD to see, or hackers to get to, so I never finished setting up a page. I have yet to be successful in eliminating or even changing a couple of things I initially provided. Also, I never have trusted ANY site enough to believe what they said in their marketing and/or rules pages (except this one, and several others). Plus, they are at liberty to change anything, any time. We give them permission to do so when we hit the “submit” button at initial sign up.
We’ve all known from the beginning of internet time, that once you “publish it online”, you’ve made it public information and, therefor, have no right nor reason to expect it to be “private” information any longer. You give up your Constitutional right to privacy regarding whatever you’ve “published”. ( I think we still have some of those rights left.) “I have nothing to hide” isn’t a good enough excuse for me. I still pull my window shades down when it gets dark and the lights are on…..even in the living room.
One thing I’ve never understood about any of these social network sites is this…… If, in fact, they even remotely care about our privacy, why hasn’t Facebook “cloaked” (prevented), or provided us with the means to, ALL photos from being copied by anyone passing by? Website creators have been doing that for years to protect their content from being copied. Just think about the fraud and misuse that rampantly exists because YOUR photo, or your KIDS photos are at risk of being copied and intentionally used for “wrong” purposes. Checking the box for “friends only” doesn’t make ME feel protected. That would mean I trust Facebook, and I don’t. Even if I did, somebody in the world would find a way to hack in if they wanted to.
I have also stopped commenting at the end of newspaper or website articles that restrict me to signing in ONLY through Facebook or Twitter ID’s. I don’t WANT my comments, in response to another poster, “ALSO POSTED ON FACEBOOK”. I have found only one newspaper that provides a check box for me to elect that option.
Thanks so much for this input. I have closed my Facebook acct. (closed as one cannot unsubscribe from Facebook) and told time and again to my grand’children about the fact the FB knows all about them. Hope they will read this article I will send them.
I tried FB and was on it for awhile but really only to keep up with my grand kids and their pictures. Then it got to be WORK and time consuming and very wanted to know way too much about me. I pulled out of it a couple years ago and will never go back! I think it is dangerous to the unsuspecting and trusting! I want my life private and that is almost a thing of the past 🙁
I have tried to be careful of what I post. I have only a couple pictures that I posted. I love some of the jokes, pictures that show some funny stuff and also have some beautiful scenes. I also love to keep in touch with relatives, but don’t post personal info. I usually try to send this info by email to family and friends. This pass few days there has been a lot on supporting our Veterans. Hopefully they get to read these. I try to keep to minimum of (2 days a week). But I do agree you need to be careful.
This has been an interesting conversation, lots of thought stirred up via C8’s comments and valid (say “cautionary”) responses. I think about this privacy issue and how it can affect (particularly) the youngest of the community – it can be dangerous. I have an old friend from childhood who lost her whole family in one storm of a trauma as a teenager. She pursued a life of sex, drugs, and failed relationships. When she got on FB, she enjoyed reliving her “hippie days” and posted some salacious pieces and I knew my family, friends and the young teenage “friends” were reading them. Eventually I unfriended her. (don’t you love how our culture has taken the English language hostage, turning nouns into verbs………..) 🙂
I joined Facebook, but there is much in that list I chose not to fill in. They ask every now and then, but I just keep ignoring them, lol.