Indeed, a good thing no one knows my true identity as a vegetarian pacifist called Mildred.
No friends in common. I think what's happened is that FB somehow knows that I've clicked the link in this person's sig, which leads to information including their real name.Are you friends with anyone else on here?
If they were then friends with that other person, and Facebook saw you had more than one friend in common, they can sometimes use that to make the suggestion.
I've got a mate who's always posting on Facebook conspiracy theories about the New World Order, Illuminati, 9/11, control of mainstream media etc. I just think that if he's right, does he really think that "they" are not monitoring facebook? Surely they must be on to him?It is indeed terrifying.
Thank God no one is regularly publishing their opinions on politics, terrorism, religion, nationality and ethnicity online in a pseudo anonymous forum.
That would be even more terrifying than Facebook.
You'd be suprised at just how easy it is to get that information though.I listened to a programme on R4 about internet security and at the end of the programme they asked a government security specialist what advice he would give to anybody thinking of putting their details on Facebook or any other social media. His advice? "Don't. Just don't. Once that information is out there, it's out there and we have no idea how it will be abused or misused in the future".
To my shame I used, when I was less cautious, to post on a Land Rover forum under my own name and now, ten years later, the posts still come up if I Google my own name. I'm hoping they will disappear eventually. I heard somebody from the Police talking about tracing a suspect and they said: "Unfortunately he's not active on the internet so he's proving hard to trace". It is really amazing what internet savvy people can find out about other people, for example when a commuter films them being abusive; within hours their personal details are all over the web.
Depends on what wording he's using in his posts though.I've got a mate who's always posting on Facebook conspiracy theories about the New World Order, Illuminati, 9/11, control of mainstream media etc. I just think that if he's right, does he really think that "they" are not monitoring facebook? Surely they must be on to him?
I was talking to a friend who is a SENCO in a school who takes great pleasure in showing people that 10 minutes with their Facebook profile and she can build up a dossier of facts very easily that can be used by predators. Her area of concern is child protection but it works equally for all predators of personal details be they after your bank account or home address.
I am so pleased to have never succumbed to the Faceplant, Twatter, or other such site and had an account.
And knowing what I do now I am so surprised that anyone does.
Cyclechat and LinkedIn are the only ones I use - and only LinkedIn because it helps professionally sometimes.
Your bank uses similar methods, though I doubt they'll admit to it.I used to work for a credit referencing agency, on the IT side. We effectively 'data mined' from data provided to us from a variety of sources. It was amazing even then how much info about individuals could be gleened/derived where said individuals didn't even realise that that info was 'out there'. And there's more of it these days. People just take it for granted. Not that that is a bad thing necessarily, but it is something to be aware of.
Your bank uses similar methods, though I doubt they'll admit to it.