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In the course of it or not, but Facebook is used by each of us! Constantly :)
Sometimes this fact is obvious: whenever you click "Like" on the page or click "Share" Facebook gets to benefit. Moreover, it can do so that you will become intolerable irritant to your friends. The most annoying thing in this situation - you can not even guess about it. In this article, we describe how this tricky feysbukovskogo scheme works, as well as show you how to hack it.
On the issue of the use of Facebook to your personal information, the main thing to understand how the social network keeps track of your activity and what you need to do to protect your privacy. In this case, it will be about how Facebook uses your habits - with or without your knowledge - to annoy your friends persistent reports that have something to do with you. This is a very clever animal, but it can be stopped. Here's what you need to know.
Facebook uses your husky for advertising purposes
See more and more in your stream messages that [your friend] like reference [page name] with photos and text of a post, even though he only layknul that page?
Probably noticed advertising positions, which states that another [your friend] like [page name] calling layknut this page and you will too? Certainly this fact can not be annoying.
But remember that your friends do not specifically advertise pages - it's all the machinations of Facebook using our habits and interests for their own purposes - to gather more likes and ball.
Feysbukovskogo algorithm issuing updates in the news - EdgeRank - still remains a mystery. If everyone knew how it worked, the advertisers would not have to pay for advertising posts, and users would be able to easily filter your belt and blocks ads and remove them from their uninviting content.
EdgeRank serves two purposes. For people who work with corporate pages and on the pages of Facebook are your brand - it is an algorithm that decides how many of your readers will see the published post. For users - is the possibility that someone else, even someone unfamiliar layknet or share the positions of your chronicle. It was following this scheme, your news feed does not fit in the real chronological order, even after you set the news sort by "most recent."
It is not about your status updates, photos, or anything else that you post in his chronicle. And about how you interact with other pages, Facebook groups and users. It's one thing if your children or tape packed with wedding photos of your former classmates. And another thing - when every post that you layknuli appears in the tapes of all your friends. This is done without your knowledge or control who the message will be shown to you, too, can not.
Facebook is using you to brand pages have reached and your friends
Problem: When you see in your stream or a message from a group of which you've never heard, with an appeal to pretty pictures or layknut the very page / group, you can assume that your friend decided to share this with all your friends by clicking "Share." In fact it is not so. Rather, he simply clicked "Like" under some fasting. But that's it. The quickest way to dispel their doubts - visit personal profile, if the chronicle is not repost, so Facebook itself has decided that this publication you will like it too.
Of course, it's annoying! But the situation becomes particularly problematic when you click "Like" on what can be unsafe for you. Like - like as not the world, who see it ?!
For example, a friend of mine - a model: it is attractive, but her photo shoot are too outrageous. Therefore, it would not be very useful if my boss casually glance over my shoulder and see my "work"... Like her photo shoot, I inadvertently share those photos with friends by allowing them to boss. Oil Painting: Head finds his subordinates watching mildly obscene pictures of half-naked with a girl. And is not that a problem?
Unfortunately, it does not solve it. Facebook does not allow to control their own level of privacy that you laykaete. If you like the post is in the public domain, then your Like too becomes public. Remember, if you are a fan of some feysbukovskogo page or group, its positions can be displayed in the tape and your friends too.
This is how EdgeRank. Facebook believes that you and your friends similar interests, so they can enjoy what you like. Disadvantage: Your band is flooded photographs and updated pages to which neither you nor your friends do not care. How can clear their own and other people's belts from cluttering with unnecessary information?
Decision: First of all, think before you press the "Like". It is impossible to determine what your favorite posts will appear in the film of your friends. Therefore, before you layknite any picture in your favorite group, be aware that this picture can get to each of your other. Here are some practical tips:
Hide from your friends those pages that you likeIn his profileBy removing the check mark from "affordable to all" and set it in front of "I Just". after this operations what you laykaete, should no longer appear in the stream of your friends. Try to do so, but a guarantee that it will work on 100% no one can not give.
Check your "activity log". This is the only way to find out which of your sympathy in the public domain, and which are not. You will see the whole story: status updates, your favorite photos, posts and repost. Next to each item on the right is an icon - available to all or only to a certain circle of people. Facebook does not allow to change the visibility of these records, but you can remove your Like with any of them (put a "do not like"). Walk sometimes very useful in their history and may open many new things for you :)
Use the special program to restore order in their newswire. You can set utility to remove the tape from your obsessions message prompting layknut post or page, who liked someone from your friends. It will clean your news from the slag, but your friends will remain uninsured from receiving your invitation allegedly layknut group or a picture under which you click "Like".
Facebook uses your husky for profit brand pages, littered tape your friends
Problem: You've probably seen these ads in your stream: one, the second and third friend likes a certain brand button Laika. Sometimes these messages just two or three in a row in a large ad unit. This is very annoying, especially when that brand you a damn. Protect your friends the trouble, conduct an audit in the list of brands that you "like".
Decision: Click "Do not Like" on the pages of brands that have little interest in, and sin no laykayte new groups with whom you do not want to have anything to do.
There are companies that offer excellent service, all sorts of bonuses and discounts, as well as other "nishtyaki", for which they can not but adore. For example, that you should press the "Like" on our cozy page on Facebook? :)
We often laykaem pages those brands whose products we choose. Because we want to be informed about the latest company news, shares and current special offers. But we do not get them material benefits daily. How to be?
Sign up for Twitter your favorite companies. Twitter Unlike Facebook will constantly bother you or your friends annoying ads from brands. You can not even read the account of the company you like, just add it to the list of specially created (for example, only for the stores or tenders), and you will be informed of all promotions and offers.
Keep a separate account for the likes. Especially for tracking stocks and discounts, create yourself a second account. It can also be used to control how your personal information without your permission rassharivat Facebook. Note: Policy Facebook provides for one person only one account. Creating a second profile, how would you break the conditions of use of social network. Just keep this in mind.
Set the parameters of advertising. You can prevent Facebook to use your name and activity for advertising purposes. You also have the ability to customize the way the social network makes you a favorite posts, pages and groups in advertisements, which are so strongly irritate your friends. You go to the Settings page of advertising and set a tick next to "No".
Facebook is not going to stop ...
It is not necessary to hope that Facebook will soon cease to use our names and the huskies for the creation of all the annoying advertising. Moreover, Zuckerberg introduced "graphical search"- personal web search, which displays unique results for each user. Everything would be fine. But! This search gives advertisers the opportunity to put a smart cross-references to the likes of one on the other. In turn, this allows them to see who got to see the advertised brand or product and which friends are best suited for the role of "promoters".
While the graphical search is available only to a narrow circle of users (you can sign up on a waiting list) and does not violate the confidentiality of personal data. If you are an advanced user and know how to hide personal information on Facebook, you can not worry about image search. It is possible that advertisers already have access to an individual search, but it is still not clear.
Guided by this philosophy and social readers on Facebook - applications that allow you to show your friends what articles in online publications you read. If the future of image search is still too early to say, the social reader, positioned as a new sotsfunktsiya, failed miserably. Members, to put it mildly, not pleased to share with hundreds of friends information about whose photo they looked and what read gossip, especially doing it against their will. Not surprisingly, many of the media, including Russia, have refused from introduction of readers in the form of individual applications, as they contributed to the outflow of users only.
How to be and what to do?
The sad truth is that Facebook is a free service for users. So he somehow need to earn a living. Facebook makes money on our personal data with you. The only question is: using our data only Facebook or transmit them to someone else, and then what happens to that information.
Summarizing, we can say:
1. Be alert each time the button "Like", because the dissemination of this information is not limited to news feeds of your friends, but it is a can transcend them.
2. Since you can not see on your profile that would share the on your behalf, you will not realize it until you someone popinguet why you laykaete fotochek so many of the same group or spam pictures of some pages. Regularly check your privacy settings, such as setting the display data from the applications and pages (your faithful friend - "Only I"). Also controls the list of what you have shared.
3. And another thing: every time Facebook holds secret manipulation with the change of issue of the order news or just performs some social innovations, do not forget to carry out the update of all your settings privacy.