The tech giant Facebook has been facing privacy concerns due to its company policies that are deemed highly intrusive by privacy experts. Mark Zuckerberg and his company have been monitoring its users from their favorite activities to our personal relationships and even our deepest secrets.
Here are some things Facebook knows about you that you may not be aware of. We will not be surprised if what you will find out may prompt you to delete your account in Facebook or other services it offers.
7. Your heartaches and breakups
Like in love life, Facebook can also predict when a couple is about to breakup, even before they realize it. Then both persons would start seeing dating site ads on your newsfeed. While they may patch things up, any of them may also choose to just click on the ads.
No, Facebook does not predict the breakup based on the couple's posts or how they communicate. Instead, it considers a relationship healthy if the couple has many mutual friends and if they are close to each other's close friends.
8. Your political ideology
Without revealing your political inclination, Facebook would know it through the apps or liked pages as well as by looking at your activities across all its platforms. It will then uses these data to know if you are a conservative, moderate, or liberal.
9. Your long lost relatives
Facebook is able to give suggestions on "people you may know" using your contacts, location, facial recognition technology as well as data from other apps. The Facebook friend suggestion works by recommending a user to someone he or she may be linked in one way or another. Thus, thousands have already found their long lost relatives or friends through Facebook.
10. Your mere existence
Despite millions of people have already deactivated their Facebook accounts or may have not used it at all due to privacy concerns, it does not mean they spared by its algorithm. Facebook has created a shadow profile for everyone who has friends and their extended friendship who use Facebook. These profiles, which only exist on Facebook's systems, are enhances when their friends upload their contacts. This is how it recommends friends when these people finally decided to create an account .
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Written by CJ Robles
