Facebook collects extensive personal information about its users. It knows basic facts like names, phone numbers, emails and birthdates. It also knows details about users' education histories like what schools they attended and graduation years. Despite having privacy settings, Facebook still seeks to learn users' private information for its own purposes.
1. FACEBOOK
KNOWS
MORE
ABOUT
YOU
THEN
YOU
THINK
THE
FACEBOOK
FACTS
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2. 250
million
people
access
Facebook
from
there
smartphones
or
tablets
every
day
By
the
end
of
2013,
Facebook
stated
that
there
was
1.1
billion
monthly
ac@ve
users
worldwide
Smartphone
users
check
Facebook
14
@mes
a
day
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3. Every
1
in
13
people
on
Earth
have
Facebook
The
average
user
has
over
130
Facebook
friends
Facebook
is
the
second
biggest
website
by
traffic
behind
Google
at
the
moment
Facebook
is
valued
at
approximately
80
billion
dollars
600,000
hacking
aDempts
are
made
to
Facebook
accounts
every
day
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4. Being
the
largest
online
social
networking
service,
it
is
uncommon
to
meet
someone
who
doesn’t
have
a
Facebook
account.
However,
having
an
account
means
sharing
your
private
informa@on.
Why
are
so
many
people
eager
to
do
so?
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5. Research
shows
that
although
both
youth
and
adults
know
how
to
use
Facebook’s
privacy
sepngs,
only
a
por@on
of
both
youth
and
adults
reported
actually
using
these
sepngs
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6. Even
though
Facebook
introduced
there
revamped
privacy
sepngs,
they
s@ll
want
to
know
your
private
informa@on
themselves….
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“But
I
use
my
privacy
sepngs!”
7. Lets
take
a
look
into
what
Facebook,
the
biggest
social
network
in
the
World,
knows
about
you..
Nobody
knows
how
to
get
you
to
willingly
share
your
extremely
private
informa@on
quite
like
Facebook
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8. Your
name
Your
phone
number
Your
email
Your
birth
date
Facebook
knows
the
Simple
Facts
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9. Facebook
knows
what
year
you
graduated
High
School,
and
University
Facebook
knows
if
you
didn’t
graduate
High
School,
or
University
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10. Facebook
knows
which
sites
you
have
visited,
even
auer
you
have
logged
out
Facebook
knows
your
favourite
hobbies
and
ac@vi@es
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11. Facebook
has
access
to
all
contacts
inside
your
personal
email
account
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12. Facebook
knows
your
current
loca@on
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b2NN32-‐eghTGo-‐Fmu8N-‐6prZBn-‐fHr5pX-‐dKM4XF-‐h7ZepJ-‐aGSRsr-‐mQCsaE-‐5seCHN-‐8pJWJV-‐BLL8N-‐2U2bT-‐D3NJb-‐fQrcw3-‐dMrBxA-‐dgagZ1-‐9mg3Zz-‐aGSRaM-‐abAkkK-‐aoCJ5H-‐abWqzo-‐9J3cLv-‐9J66R3-‐msi14x-‐dBbSM5-‐
bJSXb4-‐nq23YG-‐9sVnJf-‐9GJuq1-‐abAkiv-‐ae1cnm-‐ewuJkS-‐abAknP-‐btQcGK-‐9J3gdx-‐9J3fQK-‐9J3fwc-‐9J3fo6-‐9J3fen-‐9J3faM-‐9J3f1T-‐9J3eQB-‐9J3eFZ
13.
Facebook
knows
your
past
and
present
rela@onships
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14. Facebook
knows
anything
your
phone
records
within
fiueen
seconds
of
you
typing
out
a
status
update
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dgagZ1-‐9mg3Zz-‐aGSRaM-‐abAkkK-‐abWqzo-‐9J3cLv-‐9J66R3-‐msi14x-‐dBbSM5-‐bJSXb4-‐nq23YG-‐9sVnJf-‐9GJuq1-‐abAkiv-‐ae1cnm-‐ewuJkS-‐abAknP-‐
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15. Facebook
knows
what
songs
you
are
listening
to
while
typing
out
a
status
update
on
Facebook’s
Mobile
app
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bDJTEa-‐9EcvFd-‐255y6o-‐2n7A9f-‐85JmbR-‐nFS9i-‐7czAQo-‐5UPajj-‐3wtLvH-‐8dtWHM-‐vY16-‐4AxJJ8-‐6FppEQ-‐97yhR9-‐6SaZxn-‐9bPogN-‐iFquE-‐dRg@d-‐k68CT-‐gRXdjE-‐7JPXM-‐fYci6X-‐2hYGMj-‐futssE-‐8EYNAC-‐9peLtd-‐9MY1Gf-‐7KgDdP-‐hGzFbz-‐9Yc79C-‐9fqDC-‐8fnkzc-‐Pw4En-‐8ha61W-‐5WsnPW-‐2A3cA5-‐mKjEYS
16. Facebook
knows
what
your
face
looks
like,
now
and
forever,
through
their
photo
recogni@on
souware
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baVzHV-‐ejYRXF-‐fvT5QE-‐fvCNXH-‐fvCP5g-‐ejYRY4-‐ek5BFu-‐fvT5PN-‐dJWmBj-‐fvT5P7-‐cJUp9j-‐cJUpd7-‐bD3XpA-‐bD3XoJ-‐bD3Xo7-‐bRXF8B-‐j3DMii-‐j3CdLt-‐j3Eo8Q-‐j3DZ9U-‐dkMxB1-‐cJUpbJ-‐eERdkc-‐eEXjV9-‐eEXjWd-‐eFwPQK-‐
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17. Facebook
knows
who
and
what
you
are
tex@ng
through
WhatsApp
or
Facebook
Messenger
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18. Facebook
knows
who
your
best
friends
are,
through
the
amount
of
photos
uploaded
with
them
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19. Facebook
knows
people,
places,
and
friends
you
search
for
the
most
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20. Facebook
knows
who
you
are
most
likely
going
to
be
in
a
photo
with,
due
to
the
amount
of
photos
you
have
been
in
with
the
person
before
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21. If
you
wouldn’t
share
it
with
someone
else,
why
share
it
with
Facebook?
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10150274471574235
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