facebook facts - what facebook knows about you
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The Facebook Facts - By Hanna ValenteTRANSCRIPT
FACEBOOK KNOWS MORE ABOUT YOU THEN YOU THINK
THE FACEBOOK FACTS
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By Hanna Valente
250 million people access Facebook from
there smartphones
or tablets every day
By the end of 2013, Facebook stated that there was 1.1 billion monthly ac@ve users worldwide
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Every 1 in 13 people on Earth have
The average user has over 130 Facebook friends
Facebook is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google at
the moment
Facebook is valued at approximately 80 billion dollars
600,000 hacking aDempts are made
to Facebook accounts every day
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Being the largest online social networking service, it is uncommon to meet someone who doesn’t have a Facebook account. However, having an account means sharing your private informa@on. Why are so many people eager to do so?
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Research shows that although both youth and adults know how to use Facebook’s privacy sepngs, only a por@on of both youth
and adults reported actually using these sepngs
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Even though Facebook introduced there
revamped privacy sepngs, they s@ll want to know your private informa@on
themselves….
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“But I use my privacy sepngs!”
Lets take a look into what Facebook, the biggest social network in the World, knows about you..
Nobody knows how to get you to willingly share your extremely private informa@on quite like Facebook
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Your name
Your phone number
Your email
Your birth date
Facebook knows the Simple Facts
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Facebook knows what year you graduated High School, and University
Facebook knows if you didn’t graduate High School, or University
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Facebook knows which sites you have visited, even auer you have logged out
Facebook knows your favourite hobbies and ac@vi@es
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Facebook has access to all contacts inside your personal email account
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Facebook knows your current loca@on
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Facebook knows your past and present rela@onships
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Facebook knows anything your phone records within fiueen seconds of you typing out a status update
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Facebook knows what songs you are listening to while typing out a status update on Facebook’s Mobile app
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Facebook knows what your face looks like, now and forever, through their photo recogni@on souware
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Facebook knows who and what you are tex@ng through WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger
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Facebook knows who your best friends are, through the amount of photos uploaded with them
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Facebook knows people, places, and friends you search for the most
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Facebook knows who you are most likely going to be in a photo with, due to the amount of photos you have been in with the person before
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If you wouldn’t share it with someone else,
why share it with Facebook?
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