I'm gonna delete the account after selling my Quest 2 for the Steam Frame

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[–] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Don't they already have shadow profiles on all of us, even if we don't use Facebook? I long ago figured that they're able to get ahold of all the info they want on us without our consent. Is tracking our habits and relationships not enough? Even if the idea is to use this as age verification, I highly doubt Facebook's as clueless as to not have a ballpark estimate on all of us by now. (Or did the introduction of AI break things so bad that they can no longer deduce the sort of data they want? Hey, I can dream.)

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I've heard that, but I've searched for my name on Facebook and I never find anything about myself. My wife has a Facebook account, she has the app on her phone and tablet, and I've had cause to use it. Like she'll tell me to go into her messages and get a recipe or something. I don't read them, but we don't keep secrets from each other. Anyway, I'll be bored in a car ride and I'll start looking up my coworkers, and laugh at the dumb shit they post (that could identify them/their location to strangers). Once in a while I'll look myself up. I'm not a public figure, per se, but I do have imitators, so if you look my name up, first and last, a couple profiles will come up, but they have nothing to do with me and they don't have any information that matches mine. I don't know if those are the "shadow profiles" people talk about, but they are not a threat to me.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I've heard that, but I've searched for my name on Facebook and I never find anything about myself

    Yeah, you won't. That's why they're called shadow profiles. But if one day you do sign up you'll find Facebook already knows who all of your friends are and what your interests are, etc.

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