Well, Igloo. If you never use your facebook account and you are so outraged about it all, why NOT just delete it?
Under “your information.” Go to ads preference from settings then click on “your information” Ha, FB updates my info. Now, it says I returned from a trip a week ago which is true. It also says I use older devices. My cultural affinity is African American. No idea why it says that.
@OHMomof2 I’ll try that, too.
@MomofWildChild Our local FB group has an excellent selection of local contractors that I find useful. I am weighing pros and cons of keeping the account.
I went to the section of FB @igloo is referencing. At the top of this section it says:
Under “your information” it says I returned from travel within the last two weeks. That is true. I certainly didn’t post it on facebook as I never post anything on FB. The only time I put online that I would be traveling was in a private message to a CC member, who I know doesn’t sell personal info to FB. 
I guess it could have gotten the information from my phone somehow, though I have a new phone that doesn’t have FB loaded on it. I did have GPS turned on because we had gone to Seattle to research neighborhoods for D1 and I certainly needed it. This section on FB has my political leanings completely wrong for some reason. It’s probably getting that from the posts of my “friends.” It knows what kind of phone I had, but not the current phone I recently bought.
Hmmm, interesting.
“Iglooo: It doesn’t seem to matter what you post. I don’t post where I go and yet FB knew I came back from a trip two weeks ago. My location is turned off except for map”.
I once called a woman who posted an ad online. I didn’t message her. I called a number listed. I bought an item from her and paid in person. She told me VERBALLY during a phone call to call a friend she had if I wanted because he had moved a lot of items for her and I needed someone to move something else. I called him. He did some work for me.
All of this took place OUTSIDE Facebook.
Next day, both of these individuals show up on my timeline as “people you may know”.
I was ticked.
^^ They might have checked YOU out on facebook or put your email in their contacts.
Are they gathering info by listening to us??
I have had people recommended as friends that I have absolutely no contact with in facebook and no mutual friends. It puzzled me a bit, then I figured out they are in my list of contacts.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/24/technology/facebook-data/index.html
This article shows how to download your Facebook data in an archive. I just downloaded mine – it takes about 5-10 minutes for FB to archive your data and then send you a link to it. Everything I’ve ever done on FB is there. Sorry, that’s just way too creepy. If I didn’t use it so much for chat, I’d delete it right now. I need to find an alternative.
“Are they gathering info by listening to us??”
Not sure if facebook is but someone is. More than once I’ve had conversations with my husband about some random thing or product while on my laptop only to receive emails or ads about said things within hours - and I have searched for that thing online. Given that it has happened more than once, I don’t think it is coincidence.
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/23/elon-deletes-spacex-tesla-facebook-pages-discovering/
Lol. Teslaheads are not hanging out on FB. They are on Tesla forums. Very CC cafe-like - lots of useful advice, like how to legalize the front license plate without drilling into the bumper. 
@doschicos
Yes! I was talking to my son about a book with an uncommon/unique word in the title. A few hours later an ad for a product containing that name came up on FB. My son thought it was a coincidence; I did not! Truly creepy.
My post above should read " and I HAVEN’T searched for that thing online".
Are you the only one who get to see the archived FB data? Is it also assessable to a third party like Airbnb? Airbnb asked if they can verify me through FB? If I consent to that, do they get the FB archive of your data? Does the archive has only posts or does it also include “your information”? If it’s only the posts one could argue, you knew when you posted FB will know, too. But FB is collecting far more than what you post. Did anyone knowingly agree to that?
This is a good article that explains how to download your archive, exactly what is in it and how to explore it.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/18/how-to-download-facebook-archive
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Your Facebook archive contains copies of your Timeline information, messages you have exchanged in chats, posts, photos and videos you have shared, anything from the Info section of your profile and more.
It also includes other information available to you in your Facebook account and activity log, including data you did not create yourself such as the ads you have clicked on, logged IP addresses and more.
Your archive does not include previously deleted content.
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^Thank you. That’s helpful.
Speaking of online privacy, if you have an android phone have you ever checked your Google timeline? It keeps track of everywhere you go! If you go to Google Maps (better done on a computer) , pull down the menu and click on timeline. You will see a map that plots all of your movement during the day. It even identifies stores you enter. You can select any day you want on the calendar. It is pretty shocking the first time you see it. I decided to leave mine active because I figured someday I might need an alibi. The potential for abuse of this data is fairly huge. Lets see… my car insurance company could see how fast I am driving. The police could see how fast I am driving for that matter. Iphones do the same thing, but I don’t have one so I don’t know where to find the data on an iPhone.
I actually like and use that feature. I was trying to remember the name of a restaurant we went to a few months back and was able to pull it up with my timeline because I knew the rough dates I’d been there. Creepy, also cool.
Obviously maps doesn’t work without location services, so you can’t turn them off if you want to use Nav, but you can delete that timeline regularly if you like.
…and it keeps the timeline whether you use maps/Nav to drive or not. As we moved around a foreign country last year (I didn’t have data or cell service) it recorded my location based on the wifi I used at various hotels, etc.
Thanks for letting me know about the timeline feature. It thinks I work at the establishment next door to the one where I actually work, so maybe not the best alibi. I’m astonished at how much walking I do. Would never have guessed.
Everything is linked. I looked up on my phone a hotel I am staying at next week and 10 min later went to Facebook on iPad browser and there was the hotel right on my feed.
Weird. I looked up that timeline feature and it was only on for several months in 2017. It’s off now. No idea why.
The funniest thing is looking at my locations for when I went on a short cruise. Just in case I need to know where you first get a signal as you approach the coast…
Oooh, it also knew when I was walking vs driving. Being on a cruise is the same color as driving.