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Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her
jenningsthecat writes A happily married Ontario woman was shocked and dismayed last January to discover that she had an active account with dating site Zoosk.com. Mari Sherkin saw a pop-up ad on Facebook for Zoosk, but wasn't interested, so she "clicked on the X to close it. At least I thought I did." She immediately began to receive messages from would-be Zoosk suitors in her Facebook mailbox. When she had a look on Zoosk she was horrified to find a dating profile with her Facebook picture, name, and postal code. Zoosk denies ever setting up profiles in this way, yet their terms of service explicitly allow them to do it, and there are apparently several Facebook pages with complaints of similar occurrences.
...I would never have done something like that.
but found out she's the product.
Facebook knows her true feelings about her husband.
So either this lady went through a lot of steps to create a profile, or this company is lying and actually created it for her.
I'm far more likely to believe the combination of Facebook and whatever this Zoosk thing is are the culprits.
That's pretty slimy as far as I'm concerned.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Anyone who has ever been a programmer at a social networking company however will know it was management's decree. This type of stuff doesn't happen on accident.
I had the same problem, I clicked the wrong button and Facebook loaded up all these photos of my ex-girlfriends! Hopefully if I show this article to my wife she will take me back.
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From the fine print:
"By accessing or using our services through a social networking site, you are authorizing Zoosk to collect, store, retain and use, in accordance with our privacy policy, any and all of your information that Zoosk has obtained from the social networking site, including to create a Zoosk profile page and account for you.”
So by closing the pop up (the ‘service’), she was technically ‘using’ the service - and Zoosk can now create a profile page. Looks totally legit /s.
Because they talk with their friends on Facebook, and totally impersonal conversation would be a little weird?
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Great PR company of a service I haven't heard before. Seems that paid article on cbc is chepaer than using AdWords to attract new customers.
"I get too many telemarketers calling!" "So get rid of your phone. You can live without it" Same logic
Morpheus: What is Facebook? Control. Facebook is a computer-controlled world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.
[holds up an ad]
Neo: No, I don't believe it. It's not possible.
Morpheus: I didn't say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth.
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Here is one valid use-case for Facebook... Our kid is growing and the small army of great- and grand- parents — as well as uncles and aunts — want to see as many pictures as there can be.
I host our collection on my own computer (FiOS rulez), but it is somewhat tedious to keep the collection up to date. Facebook, on the other hand, makes it much easier to get from snapping a picture to its world-wide availability.
Now, I am unlikely to give-in and open an FB-account — I'd rather figure out, how to automate such uploads myself (ownCloud sounds promising). But I do not (any longer) blame other people, who choose the easy way out. Why would they include optional personal details — I don't know either. Maybe, because they don't realize, it is optional?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Compared to Facebook, the people who list all their Apple devices in their signatures on MacRumors are... eh...
I'm sorry, I'm not sure where I was going with this.
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I have the same problem, unfortunately my Zoosk account doesn't bring me the candidate pool that I seek,
then deal with it and quit your bitching. You are getting exactly what you paid for.
I'm so sorry for you.
My friends are the ones I call and speak with in real-time or visit with. Do those that aren't willing to make the effort to communicate in real-time deserve to be called friends?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
you forgot the filthy part of your account... "Happily married 50 yo FILTHY RICH man seeking SWF 18-21"
Our algorithms analyzed the tones of your status updates and thought you might like a change of scenery. You're welcome
This is just a friendly reminder that the purpose of Facebook games is to get your personal information. When you "install" the game you get a EULA that grants the game access to your profile. But, as far as I know, clicking on a Facebook ad should not give them your profile. The article mentions OAuth, but that should not be relevant to an advertisement.
How did she get a popup ad on facebook? I finally succumbed to getting a facebook account because that is how the big band I am in communicates. I have literally never had a popup ad while on facebook.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
After some of the post I made on Facebook, I automatically had profiles of me created by the FBI and the NSA. And dating sites as well, I suppose.....
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Obviously she clicked "X" for "X"-treamly interested. Isn't that how everything works these days?
in case of whoosh.
Never trust an atom. They make up everything.
Doesn't have to be Facebook/Zoosk's or her fault. Well not completely anyway. Could be another party doing this just to troll, maybe someone who doesn't like her.
Think about it, why would Facebook/Zoosk create a profile of her with her real contact info? It's not uncommon for shady dating sites to use someone's pic and some info to create fake profiles, but they do it for the pretty pics and are gambling that the owner of those pics doesn't find out about it. It would be really stupid to give out the owner's real email address, since would be instantly notifying them that you are committing fraud. Companies that want to stay in business generally avoid that.
On the other hand, third party, doing it either just for lolz or to do something bad to a specific person could easily do it. Facebook pics are out there, so is some basic profile info to make it look more legit, real email isn't hard to get especially if you know the person. I'd say they knew it would put this woman in hot water. Hell, maybe give her husband's email as backup contact.
It's like an hour worth of work to do this to someone who is stupid enough to have their info and pic plastered all over a public web-site like Facebook. That's the part where it's her own fault, though not completely, since there are plenty of other uses for Facebook and this kind of thing doesn't happen to everyone.
...the one where all the celebrities with sexual addiction problems blame it on the alien wizard. It was Facebook that created all those dating site profiles honey, honest. Yeah, the alien wizard.
THen how do I troll former high school classmates
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Just remembering all those fond memories I had with BongHit69...
Or was that 420Batman?
Either way, such fond memories of somebody...
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> socnet user is surprised to learn her Facebook dataz aren't under her control
I am shocked. Shocked, I say.
Except I'm not allowed to buy my Facebook from a different provider. While interoperability is impossible, Facebook is a monopoly.
Got them moderator blues I blieve I walk out the do', With these mod-points I been gettin', I 'most never post no mo'
She got caught, and now she's lying. Simple as that.
Zoosk sent me an ad where they randomly took two names from my facebook friends list, male and female, and heavily implied they were dating after meeting on Zoosk, with their stylized heart graphic. In fact they had never heard of each other. The man, my next door neighbor, was very angry and i don't blame him.
People who actually care about you will find other ways to talk to you.
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You can always go Myspace or Friendster
I don't know. Do people that you primarily communicate with using mailed letters deserve to be called friends?
You've got a system that's simultaneously a detailed rolodex, a scheduler/calendar of events, a shared photo album, a mass e-mailer, an instantaneous communication system, and somewhere to make announcements that are visible to selected groups of people. For no direct payment of money. Oh, and it spies on you all the time and occasionally sells the results to its friends. Except for that last point, everything else is a useful feature. Whether the trade-off is worth it depends on individual preference, and the individual's acquaintances' preferences when it comes to communication.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
... rather than having their own web page, and then the only way you can find out about scheduled events etc. is if you log into Facebook. It's even more of a "walled garden" than Compuserve or AOL used to be.
"A happily married Ontario woman was shocked and dismayed last January to discover that she had an active account with dating site Zoosk.com."
At least, that is what she told her husband.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Subject sums it up really.
Apparently the red X has a *totally* different connotation on dating sites.
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks
I pray you don't work in security because this is a great example of how big of an issue social media linking is.
I think the people who work "in security" are smart enough to see through most of this crap. Or people with clearances would continually be subject to blackmail by organizations more highly motivated than some scamming dating sight trying to puff up their subscriber base.
Have gnu, will travel.
Those guys are exactly the reason why people have ad-blockers installed.
http://boingboing.net/2009/08/...
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Oh, believe me, the smartphone has been an extremely useful tool. I've gone from pager and carrying a palm pilot (technically a USR Pilot 5000), to an alphapager and palm (a newer one), to a semi-dumb phone with a few capabilities (Moto Razr V3), to a T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream), to a Samsung Galaxy SII. My wife has followed a similar path but without the pagers and with an analog cell phone in the mix. Neither of us would voluntarily give up our smartphones.
The crux of it is, we don't have our lives revolve around the smartphones. We use them as a means, not an end, and they're far from the only means at our disposal.
If someone took the time and effort needed to correspond in a meaningful way by way of personal letter then I'd probably consider them a friend, but I don't really expect that to ever be the case again.
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Hi, AlecStaar!
Guess you forgot to take your jagged little pill today, eh?
Otherwise, you might remember this?
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If you did a quick Google search on my name, you'd find much the same thing.
In spite of the fact that I'm not the Australian television personality with whom I share my name.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
complete lies.