We need to hold on to that unease. The obvious problem is that you have no idea about how information security works. I consider Facebook to be like a blogging platform: Everything I put there is public in some way. If Facebook wants to know something about me, I have to tell Facebook explicitly.
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One thing I want to try is Qubes OS. This bullshit phrase is old as fuck, and still not relevant. Now stfu. Amazon can be fun too. At the beginning of the recession, I got hit hard at work and had way more time off than I knew what to do with. I started posting a lot at Yahoo! Answers, in the coming out section, helping out. It started getting funny watching Amazon predict what I needed.
Essentially they plastered my suggested for you page with LOTS of coming out books! We could chalk this up to coincidence or maybe there was enough data on his profile to assume Matt is gay. Same here! I got accused of being straight once, because I choose a Chicago dog with onions and slaw over a Coney Island one. Mine that Facebook! I have noticed a distinct increase in the number of targeted ads that pop up everywhere I go lately.
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Not only that, I noticed a couple of days ago that one site even displays my correct age next to my little avatar thingy and my actual name — not my online name. The only place that would have my actual name is Facebook. And even though my FB profile shows only my month and day of birth, not year, I did give my complete date of birth to register originally. Then I took out the year in my FB profile a couple of days later.
I know FB knows my exact age and maybe Disqus does, too? Disqus-linked sites use my online name and FB-linked sites use my real name. Now even YouTube keeps bugging me to change my phony YouTube name to my real name. That message keeps popping up all the time lately.
I get gay ads on Facebook based on not much. But apparently enough. Probably from looking at Towleroad or Americablog Gay once in a while or something. One day I looked for chandeliers on Ebay to possibly establish a value and within seconds got chandelier ads which of course I had no interest in at all appearing everywhere. Obviously, the combination of internet, cheap high volume data processing, and capitalism has resulted in this situation. Totally new and kind of amazing, but when you think of it, not surprizing.
Time to link back to the quadrillion-gigabyte data mining center in Utah that was written about in Wired, again. This is one of the reasons why I usually lie on one or more of my online profile items whenever prompted to enter such information. I have had three or four months of nonstop Facebook ads from France in French for French heterosexual hookup sites. I have one FB friend who is living temporarily in Paris. She is heterosexual. Are there more examples of this happening with Facebook?
Then again, Facebook is free, so…. But okay, whatever. I get that Jon has an objection to data mining. Okay, fine. Nothing wrong with that. He makes some interesting points about voting and such. Um, not really. We ARE gay.
Closeted guy baffled by super-gay ads he receives on Facebook / Queerty
Far more annoying, frankly, are people who treat being gay like a cancer diagnosis and go out of their way to avoid mentioning it to you and whisper about it to everyone else. It would be more offensive, I think, for Facebook to treat being gay differently from other human characteristics, like gender or ethnicity, that they probably also use to coordinate advertising. Being called gay seems to strike them as a particularly horrifying prospect. And while closeted gays fear being outed, I fail to see how having an ad pop up on Facebook is tantamount to a public outing.
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So Facebook becomes a platform for reaching people and scamming them. Who the hell reads email anymore, right? Facebook makes it easy to target users based on their interests and other various identifiers, Roberts explains. Perhaps they found you through a friend who is also gay, and they made an educated guess. I guess it could be stranger — could have to haul a goat on your head your whole life, or bow to a meteorite five times a day.
But it is hard to believe there are still people who sincerely believe the world is flat and go on YouTube with thousands of words full of scientific terminology and mathematical formulas to prove their claims, which manages to convince others. These people are obviously exceptionally intelligent but bat-shit crazy.
Chances are his friends, family and fellow priests know just as much as Facebook and are simply honoring his reluctance to come out… while they roll eyes at his evasive comments and actions. People know. Better for everyone just to be honest.
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NateOcean Just one more item in the long list of nefarious crap pulled by Facebook.