Six Spooky Information Types Facebook Can Collect About You

Wed, Oct 14, 2009, by overunity

Social Networks

And some futuristic features that derive from it.

1. Photo views and view durations

You can only guess the implications of that. Analyzing this data wisely can help to determine who has a crush on you.

2. Logins from friends’ computers

Facebook can know when you log from friends’ computers, by reading existing cookie data before saving the new data of your login.

3. Intensive sessions from work

Knowing IP addresses of almost any workplace or business, facebook can determine whether you’re having an intensive facebook session instead of working.

4. People in photos with you but not in your friendlist

If you’ve seen some people in a party and wish to talk to them, current face-recognition algorithms can easily find their names on facebook.

5. What you really meant to say

This one may scare you a little bit: The chat client can easily broadcast ALL of your keystrokes while you chat. So, if you’re thinking again on your sentence – think again.

6. Falling asleep on facebook

By detecting sudden random keystrokes along with an uncontrolled mouse movement and finally termination of normal activity for a while, facebook can decorate your name with a ‘Fell Asleep’ icon.

Happy Halloween!

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