Facebook Users Complain of New Ad-Based Tracking

Tech.Luver noted a story about facebook users complaining over ads where their shopping habits are shared with their friends as if they are endorsing products. The neatest part is that you can opt out- if you click a box that disappears after 20 seconds... wait to long, and they assume you are totally fine with it.

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Call me back when...

[Anonymous Coward]

Call me back when there's a button to stop black people looking at my profile.

Re:What do you expect on a free service?

[rhizome]

They have to make money some how and the easiest way to do that is to sell your information on to other people or come to agreements with other companies to find ways to market to you.

The bitch was asking for it. You see that miniskirt?

Re:What do you expect on a free service?

[Frosty Piss]

At a university, you would literally be cutting out much of your social life if you never used facebook

Your post illustrates one of the things wrong with many university students today (primarily in the United States), and that is an emphasis weighted in favor of socializing over serious study. This is reflected in the overall quality of US collage graduates (there are exceptions), which is low. Yet another factor that will end up sealing America's fate as a Second Tier Nation...

Re:What do you expect on a free service?

[rmerry72]

I ask people I meet for an e-mail address. They tell me to look them up on facebook. At a university, you would literally be cutting out much of your social life if you never used facebook, because most of the people at the school expect that you will communicate with them through it.

Oh diddums. Feeling left out? Nobody wove wou? Want a tissue? You girls blouse. Booze, drubs and toga parties: That's the way to meet girls at a uni / college. Always has, always will be. When you leave its the same, just more bars than toga parties.

And if your a true geek there are a multitude of ways of finding out a girls phone number or email without resorting to facebook. I was always able to find out a hot girls number before I actually spoke to her (usually from friends, or her friends, or hell even the phonebook). Asking her for a number wasn't about getting the number, or even confirming it - it was about getting her permission to call it. Same with facebook.

t's like saying that if you don't like the subscriptions and lock-ins that the cell companies require in the US, that you just don't use a cell phone. The price of ignoring it is huge.

Or you buy the phone outright. The its yours not the cell companies.

Besides, if you don't have a Facebook account no girl will give you her email or phone number so what do you need a cell phone for? Youre already a social retard, or so you claim. You're mum will still call you on the landline.