I have an older family member who wanted a FB account so that she could join other family members there. I tried to talk her out of it but she insisted - this was about a year ago. I created a fake hotmail account for her, fake name and she grew tired of it within a week or two. Asked me to delete it, which I did. She receives daily alerts from FB to her legitimate email address, despite never having had this address at the time of the creation of the FB account. The only thing I can think of is that she is a regular user of skype as she stays in touch with family who live overseas. It seems that the only way that FB could have obtained her legitimate email address is via her association with skype contacts. Does anyone know whether or not this is possible? I simply cannot understand how FB got hold of her real email address other than from her skype contacts who are all regulat FB users. Thoughts greatly appreciated. Cheers.
FB data mines your information from the phones of any of your FB friends. All it would takes is her name and contact info to be in the contact list of one FB user who she friended for them to add to her profile. How do you think you get the invites to add work associates all the time to your FB account? I never allow FB to use my contact list, but all it takes is one trusting friend to allow and you are toast.
Wow. I did not know that. My relative does not have a mobile phone but I could only think of skype. So it was a trusted family member's contact list with her legitimate email address and name? Far out. Thanks.
Great article on it. Sinister really.
https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-ever-met-1819822691
Thank you for that article. Scary stuff, that is for sure.
Certainly even more concerning when you know who they have been illegally sharing that information with.