Is Facebook Stalking the Warrior Forum?

I don't know the answer to that but it is really creepy! They will be tapping our phone lines next and posting ad's related to our last conversation.

That is eerie J-Mo. Outside of some major privacy violations of your Internet usage, I think it's a coincidence. It's probably something in your profile, posts, or prior activity on Facebook that brought that ad up.

Yeah Jason facebook is stalking you, they have those micro tiny spiders running through your system right now trying to find out about all your interest and hobbies. You might want to block access to your dirty folders that contain some things you do not want others to know about....

James

I understand your freaked out-ness....
Awhile back, I was writing an article on film schools and there was a particular school that I had to register for the site in order to see available courses and so on. After registering, ALL of the ads on my Yahoo email were for this particular school.

It really freaked me out.

Love,
Shannon

It's a sub-conscious thing..

That particular ad has been running over at FB for a while, you probably just never noticed it until just now. You only noticed it today, because of the particular discussion you posted in about him...

Peace

Jay

It amazes me that people think they are not being tracked.

It amazes me that when people find out they ARE being tracked, they think it changes anything.

If you do things differently when you're being watched, there's something wrong with what you're doing.

Wow, I saw that Glenn Beck Post in other post. Let's think of way to use that for our advantage. Speaking of Facebook, I tried for over one year to place an ad with them. Kept getting declined, they just approved one today for me. Very similar to my others, I think they are taking some of the PPC money that Google is not getting anymore from IMers.

I have found that Facebook is one of a hand full of sites that seems to know what I have been looking at or searching for recently and is than able to quickly try and capitalize on my interests by showing related ads.

I could only shake my head while thinking to myself "Damn, these guys are good!!"

Respectfully,
Tim

They use a controversial beacon system to collect information and send it back to home base.

Facebook's Beacon Ad System Also Tracks Non-Facebook Users - PCWorld

Man, I've been saying it for a while now, but I have got to do some Facebook ads. Seriously.

I have no idea if Facebook can do that level of tracking. But honestly, nothing would surprise me at this point. Although you have to admit, Glenn Beck promos are just about everywhere these days. So, could be a coincidence.

I guess the best way to find out would be to write a post with the Mayan doomsday prophecy, FEMA internment camps, Michael Jackson, the Taliban, and a Kardashian sister all in the same paragraph and see what FB gives you.

I mean, i can't say much a bout the technical side of this, but i always get the ad that says "become a cop and be cool" and i have no information in my life relating to cops.
I can never get the 5-0 off my facebook page.

Who knows Jason, maybe Facebook has it buried in their TOS that whatever site that you link to is fair game.

That little blue logo with the white "f" is perhaps a spy.

You never know...

The strange one for me was when a friend's wife finally decided to create an account, and she put in her minimum info to create the profile, and lo and behold, Facebook recommended all these people that she knew including some family and friends. Granted, it also recommended some people she didn't know but still... all she provided was the minimum fname, lname, and email address, etc...

All that I could come up with on that one was that it used some geotargeting based on IP address and then matched last name to pull family in the same area. Then it pulled first generation contacts from each family member as well.

It was definately strange though... strange for even a tech guy like me.

Nopes, Just you man, and maybe kern too

Kidding aside, I haven't noticed the ads. I'm semi active on
facebook (updating my wall with offers and participating
on Tiffany Dow's Squidoo challenge) but haven't noticed
targeted ads so far, mostly game ads like farm ville and
mafia wars.

@michaelhiles

I agree, Being a tech guy meself, it's something that can be easily implemented
once you've got enough people signed-up. It's just a matter of
interconnecting information based on fields and values like address, names
and common associates or friends.

However, are there any protest or any kind of action against this
at the moment?

That would be interesting..

I just lost the game.

You probably mentioned Glenn Beck somewhere on your profile page.

everything we do is being watched tracked and recorded, whether we like it or not, hopefully they just use it to target ads to us and not anything else.

At least they are not turning on a remote controlled little camera on your laptop like the school in PA did with it's students.

Yep I have to admit they are getting very targetted in displaying ads, its interesting to see how they have changed since they first kicked off those ads.

if you log out from facebook , does it stalk too? ;D

I wouldn't be surprised, but I doubt it.

I wonder if they are using spiders or some sort of tracking cookie that targets keywords/ as they are typed?
Sounds like some crazy Java script or Ajax to data base type of data recording?

Makes me question their Privacy policy they put out and retracted a while back. Obviously, they are competing with Google and want the upper hand. (At what Cost)..

Think of the information available to Google if they were to buy Facebook. I wonder if FTC would approve such a thing or apply tariffs like they did to AT&T back in the 80's to separate them into "Baby Bells".

Did a friend of yours join anything about Glenn Beck lately?
I had a friend join some group about a product recently and then I got an ad about that product.

I don't think it's facebook stalking you but Fox News. I hear that have a 100:1 Human to Satellite Ratio...

-Safe Travels

I noticed it recently when I was looking for a hotel in a particular U.S. city. Then I kept getting ads popping up for cheap hotels in that city from a travel site that I did not search.

I thought it a coincidence like Jay said, but now I'm thinking differently, especially since I keep seeing these ads for days.

Ok that is weird, I think we are all to interconnected. I'll bet Facebook has agents inside the C.I.A. too! Watch out, they probably run the Masons and the Presidency. Shhh..they're listening right now. ;-P

LoL...are you sure Shane..how do I know you not just a Special Ops Agent for Facebook Intelligence? Scoping out Warrior Forum with a campaign of Dis-Information.

I'm no IT specialist but I think facebook tracks our keyword conversations the same way gmail flashes relevant ads on the right hand side of your email.

J-Mo,

I know this thread is a bit old, but something happened to me that can definitely be
considered stalking, even borderline shenanigans!

So I'm in my Facebook account and I do a search for an old friend I want to add to my friends list.

At the same time I'm chatting (using their instant messenger app) with another friend.

They send me a link to a site to check out and I click it.

It's blog with content and adsense on it.

*** Here's where it gets interesting and possibly confirms the stalking issue ***

As I'm scrolling down the blog I come across a Google Adsense block and here's
what the title of each Ad in the block say:

Find Jane Doe

Looking For Jane Doe?

We Found Jane Doe

****END AD BLOCK*****

JANE DOE is the alias I'm using as the name of the person I was searching for on Facebook!!!

Their name showed up in an Google Adsense Ad Block on a completely different site
that has NOTHING to do with Facebook!!!!

WTF is up with that????

Something is definitely going on between Facebook and Google.

Maybe big G has an "evil" cousin that is a wolk in sheep's clothing.

Who knows, but I found it interesting and it gave me the impression
that they are in bed together somehow.

Just some food for thought people.

- Jason

You think THAT is weird...the other day, I went to Outback Steakhouse. When I got home, there was a Fed Ex waiting for me that had just been delivered..when I peered inside, there was a copy of CROCODILE DUNDEE...with a little note...

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