Facebook collects a variety of personal information from users including:
- Basic identifying information provided during account creation like name, email, gender and date of birth.
- Additional details that users choose to provide on their profile like work history, education, places lived.
- Records of all posts, comments, reactions, messages, events, groups joined, pages followed, applications used and locations checked into on the Facebook platform.
- Information is collected both actively when users input data and passively through users' activities and interactions on the site.