Facebook withdraw to clean water: how do you know what a social network is known about you
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Brian Acton, WhatsApp is one of the founders, boycotts social network and is actively promoting the hashtag #deletefacebook. Scandal eruptedWhen people found out that flowed from Facebook accounts data in Cambridge Analytica agency. Protest has been supported by many users, so as soon as Mark Zuckerberg expects a severe headache.
What if you do not want to delete your account? You need to configure your correct profile. And to check if there was anything too much about you in social networking, use the built-in tools. Make it simple.
- Go to your page.
- Open the settings.
- At the bottom you see the words "Download a copy of your data from Facebook», click on it.
- In the new window, click "Generate archive", enter the password and wait.
- After a while you'll have to notice, download the file.
When you open a file index.html, Will fall into a kind of offline version of Facebook, where all the information on your profile will be divided into categories. They are to the left. For example, on the page "Profile", you can see information about yourself: e-mail address, your preference. In general, everything that you specified when completed the survey.
Page "Contacts" looks more interesting. Here, all the numbers from your phonebook and, most surprisingly, call history.
With the "Chronicle" is clear. This tab contains your publication.
On the "Friends" you can see how many hearts you break, rejecting friend requests. I've been a little bit.
Select "Security" will tell you which devices you went to your profile.
Ads tab, you can see the groups in which a member, as well as advertisers with your contact information.
Of course, all the top-secret data Mark Zuckerberg left himself, but you will be able to analyze their activity and think about what needs to change.
And if you are ready to remove your account to Facebook?