Archive for September, 2011
Facebook Privacy. Things facebook will remember forever.

Facebook Keeps your deleted DataMany people are complaining recently about the facebook changes and the privacy implications. Now a report shows up on site called Europe versus facebook. Unlike the good old US of A the Europeans have the right to get data collected about them. Apparently your Facebook database collection can easily be hundreds of pages, as some of these European citizens have learned.

So go ahead and delete all you want, but Facebook creepily never forgets. When it comes to your friendings, defriendings, pokes, and RSVPS, it keeps it all. Plus they  also keep track of what computers you’ve used to access your facebook account as well as others who have used your device to log onto facebook with their own account.

Facebook remembers 57 data points, at least that is what they are sharing with users they keep. Here is a list of those data fields.

00. Target

00. Date Range
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01. About Me

02. Account End Date

03. Account Status History

04. Address

05. Alternate Name

06. Applications

07. Chat

08. Checkins

09. Connections

10. Credit Cards

11. Currency

12. Current City

13. Date of Birth

14. Education

15. E-Mails

16. Events

17. Family

18. Favourite Quotes

19. Friend Requests

20. Friends

21. Gender

22. Groups

23. Hometown

24. Last Location

25. Linked Accounts

26. Locale

27. Logins

28. Machines

29. Messages

30. Minifeed

31. Name

32. Name Changes

33. Networks

34. Notes

35. Notification Settings

36. Notifications

37. Password

38. Phone Numbers

39. Photos

40. Physical Tokens

41. Pokes

42. Political Views

43. Privacy Settings

44. Profile Blurb

45. Realtime Activities

46. Recent Activities

47. Registration Date

48. Relationship

49. Religious Views

50. Removed Friends

51. Screen Names

52. Shares

53. Status Updates

54. Vanity

55. Wallposts

56. Website

57. Work

Now while I understand websites have to have complex databases. That gives them no right to track so many things as well as the newly discovered information that even when you log out of facebook you never really log out. This is all very ultra creepy. I like many people use facebook, but as soon as a better solution comes along I am going to switch. And by the way I am not convinced Google Plus is going to be better. The Do NO Evil company has done plenty of creepy web following. Disappointing.

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How to download a video off facebook

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Have you ever wanted to download a video from facebook and did not know how to get around their flash player? Well there are a couple of complicated methods or you can just go visit tubekeeper.com and paste in the url and it will grab it and let you download it right to your hard drive.

I had a client who uploaded a video and was not able to get me the file in time for a deadline. So I turned to tubekeeper. This came in very handy. It also has a feature to let you search videos. And they just added Tudou.com the wildly popular Chinese video repository.

Tube Keeper says it will work with all of these sites.

Facebook Metacafe DailyMotion Veoh
MegaVideo Photobucket Blip.tv Break
Tudou (NEW) CollegeHumor Clipfish.de
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