Facebook not adviseable for Writers?

How Facebook Spies on YOU

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Sharing Buttons and How Facebook el al Can Spy on You

Nate Hofelder from Digital Reader commented:
“The NYTimes published a story that explained just why Facebook was so good at knowing what you bought on Amazon and how Amazon knew all your FB friends. It turns out that Facebook has been illegally sharing your data with a whole bunch of companies.

For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed. They were effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records and interviews.

The special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of pages of Facebook documents obtained by The New York Times.  The records, generated in 2017 by the company’s internal system for tracking partnerships, provides the most complete picture yet of Facebook’s social network’s data-sharing practices.

They also underscore how personal data has become the most prized commodity of the digital age, traded on a vast scale by some of the most powerful companies in Silicon Valley and beyond.

The social network allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consentthe records show!

Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.

Ever Wondered How Amazon Knows Your Friends?
The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer, despite public statements that it had stopped that type of sharing years earlier.”

Read more of these shocking news in Nate Hofelders article:

Facebook Helped Other Tech Companies (Such as Amazon) Spy On You Better

Data Scandal at Facebook – What You Can Do

Big-Brother

 

2,2 billions of users (more than a third of the world’s population) are on Facebook.  It seems I am the only one who is not using Facebook – at least not privately.  I just don’t like how they handle the privacy of the very people they made them rich.  However, an employee pitched in and opened an account – also to establish a fan site to show news about publishing and our books:  http://on.fb.me/TvqDaK

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Once, more Facebook users have been deceived and stripped of their privacy due to the sloppiness or rather the greed of Facebook book owners including stockholders.  Thanks to their greediness, app developers are allowed by FB to grab their customer’s internet footprints.
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Shocking What FB Knows About Users
Watching a documentary on German TV, I discovered how I could disable some of the items on the Facebook site.  However, what was outrageous when I clicked on “Apps”: there were not only all social media sites our publishing company uses – but also apps that we never downloaded or used – maybe clicked on their websites once.  And I am mentioning not even scheduling sites, such as Hootsuite etc.  Clicking on these app symbols, I could see everything (I hope it was everything) they listed there.  The good news: You can delete them – one after the other – unless you really need them.  And don’t forget: you need to do this from time to time again.  Posting or liking one of these social media sites or apps means: they will be then listed again on Facebook.
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How to Manage Your Privacy Settings
When you look at your Facebook page, there is a tiny, really tiny triangle on the right upper corner:

  • Clicking on this triangle, a listing appears
  • scroll down to “Settings”, click and
  • you will see a new window, on the left click on “Apps”

… and you will be shocked how much of your Internet usage is shelved there.
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How to Find Out if You Are Victimized?
Facebook now placed an instruction on their “Help” section how users can check if their account has been compromised, selling info to Cambridge Analytica:
How can I tell if my info was SOLD by Facebook to Cambridge Analytica?
https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476

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Mark Zuckerberg admitted mistakes.  He speaks of breach of trust and announces stricter rules.  “That was a big breach of trust.  I’m sorry that this happened.”  Fine.  But he did not tell what or if something will ever change…
I don’t think so.
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Irish journalist Dylan Curran wrote for The Guardian
“Want to freak yourself out? I’m going to show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realizing it. The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look (see his Facebook account screenshot).

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It includes every message you’ve ever sent or been sent, every file you’ve ever sent or been sent, all the contacts in your phone, and all the audio messages you’ve ever sent or been sent.
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But it is not only Facebook who collected everything about you:

  • Google knows where you’ve been
  • Google knows everything you’ve ever searched – and deleted
  • Google knows all the apps you use
  • Google has all of your YouTube histories
  • The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents

Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you.
I’ve requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents.  Click on this link to see your own data: https://google.com/takeout

 

Facebook and Google can access your webcam and microphone!

The data they collect includes tracking where you are, what applications you have installed, when you use them, what you use them for, access to your webcam and microphone at any time, your contacts, your emails, your calendar, your call history, the messages you send and receive, the files you download, the games you play, your photos and videos, your music, your search history, your browsing history, even what radio stations you listen to.

Seems like all the government intelligence agencies should apply for a job at Facebook or Google. Makes their work much easier … just kidding.

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5 Problems with Facebook for Writers

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Multiple book author Randy Ross explains in one of his latest blogs: ”Recent changes to Facebook make the social media site even less useful to writers looking to promote their work for free. His fantastic blog article includes an overview of the changes, plus some tips on how to use them to your advantage. 

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Facebook

Facebook-Logout by Ivo Quartiroli

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Recent Developments on Facebook that Affect Writers
1) It’s Harder to Get Your Posts Under the Noses of Your Readers

“Most of your friends, fans, and readers see your Facebook posts in their Newsfeeds. Facebook has been restricting what appears in Newsfeeds (censoring?).  Posts from pages, such as your Author or your Book pages, may not show up at all!!!”
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In one of his earlier posts he explains the difference between a personal Facebook page and a Fan Page (or author page) in detail:  ”A Fan Page is supposed to offer several advantages over the standard personal Profile page, including:

  • Size: A Personal Page is limited to 5,000 Friends, while a Fan Page doesn’t have this limit.
  • Analytics: A Fan Page offers basic tools for analyzing your audience. If for example an agent or a publisher asks about my audience, I could quote these stats and appear knowledgeable.
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Limitations of Fan Pages
“You can’t reach all your Fans.  Facebook only allows you to reach a small portion of your hard-earned Fans — unless you pay.  Although I now have more than 2,000 Fans, Facebook will only allow me to reach about 200 of them with my posts — unless I pay $20.”

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Read more about limitations on Facebook in these great blog posts by Randy Ross. He is really extremely knowledgeable about Facebook and describes in detail how Facebook uses “Scare Tactics” to keep Mobile users from seeing links that you post.  He promises: “Next week’s post will focus on free tips and tricks for getting what you can, out of Facebook.”
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My advise:
Use Google+ to post your content, no limitations there, and you can connect directly with Twitter, so every post from Google+ shows automatically up on Twitter, which saves you lots of time and your content will you get a fantastic ranking in Google’s Search Engines – and more exposure for all of your books.

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