You’re missing the point. I know its complicated. But its not as if I asking people to believe in something, like religion. Or perhaps it has become religion.
C210_Flyer wrote:
Off course I did not give them my FB name and I dont search for them either.
That’s the reason.
Well please explain how did it happen on my Mac and it is isolated on my, for Facebook only, Chromebook. Running that for 1 year and nobody, not even family, is being friend requested. Off course I did not give them my FB name and I dont search for them either.
Facebook rifles through you computers hard drive
That is not possible with any modern browser – basically in the last 10-15 years – except via specialised hacks which a large outfit would never get away with. Many years ago a web server could present an executable which does indeed rummage through the PC…
What does happen however is that when you access FB from a phone or a tablet, it (IIRC) asks you to upload your Contacts. Most people mindlessly agree to that. But on a PC this doesn’t appear, and wouldn’t work anyway because a PC doesn’t have “contacts” in any standard way and certainly not in a way which a browser could access.
Using a fake name on FB doesn’t do the full job you are looking for, for many reasons.
Peter wrote:
For example if I do a search for your name, especially a number of times, FB will eventually present me to you under the “people you may know” suggestions. You may think how the hell did FB make the connection, since you have not been in contact with that person since you were at school… well, it didn’t. It was the other person who helped them find you.
It was a fake person which I created so unless people request the fake name search for the person I created and they happen to be my friends it doesnt make any sense.
Accept the fact that Facebook rifles through you computers hard drive. There is no other explanation for what occurred to me. Reread what I wrote happened to me, slowly, absorb it, then try to explain how this all went down.
Im just trying to alert people.
The key point is that they can have matched you by what others did (on Facebook or on other websites), not only what you did.
lionel wrote:
Or that “register you as guest to their Facebook event” thing? Do they enter your email address in Facebook to do that? Do you get an email from Facebook that you got registered as guest? That email most probably contains a tracker.
Nope never did that or ever did anything with Fakebook other than what I described. But since I go on with a specific computer and nothing else I have not been accosted by FaceBook ever since.
Facebook is much more complex than most realise.
For example if I do a search for your name, especially a number of times, FB will eventually present me to you under the “people you may know” suggestions. You may think how the hell did FB make the connection, since you have not been in contact with that person since you were at school… well, it didn’t. It was the other person who helped them find you.
Hence I get lots of people pop up in that list who could not possibly have my contact details.
Never done FB events or anything like that. I use FB for keeping in touch with friends, and exchanging non PC jokes 
One should not use one’s full name on FB. Mis-spell the surname, at least. Since they bought Whatsapp they have a large chunk of the world’s mobile numbers with their real full names attached…
@C210_Flyer, Facebook started tracking you since even before you signed up. They created a “ghost profile” for you, based on which websites you visit, etc. That “like” button you see on every website allows Facebook to track who visited what (because the button image and/or Javascript code, is loaded from facebook servers, not from the website of the page you are visiting). My guess is that this is how they connected you to that person… a high school reunion webpage, something like that?
When you signed up, they connected your account to the “ghost profile”, that’s all.
Or that “register you as guest to their Facebook event” thing? Do they enter your email address in Facebook to do that? Do you get an email from Facebook that you got registered as guest? That email most probably contains a tracker.
Take what I told you to the bank.
After being encouraged by my friends to sign up to FaceBook for 2 yrs. Why? Because they were registering me as a guest of theirs to various social events. I decided to enroll in Facebook. However I heard that Facebook is very intrusive regarding tracking and data collection. So I decided
to circumvent the system by using a VPN on my computer when I installed the Facebook program. Using a fake name DOB and other information they required, I was enrolled on my Mac which I use for Banking and all other essentials that is used in our society.
I open up the program and the first thing after the Welcome to Facebook I get a request if I would like to connect with a High School friend I speak to 2 x a year and whom I email about the same amount of times. Now think it through for a moment. How did it know to ask me if I had a friend that I communicate with other than it went through my computers hard drive and opened files. I went to some computer geeks and they said it was impossible and that could not happen. But at the same time they could not explain how Facebook connected my friend to me.
So to test my theory I got a cheap computer onto which I did the exact same thing. Opened another fictitious account. This time since the hard drive had no information cause it was a new computer. It did not ask me about any past friends etc. I Added one friend I recently met though an International organization. Now it only asks me if I would like to friend people in that organization.
Facebook is a disingenuous organization and a danger to ones privacy. It went through my computer. That is a fact.
