<p>I hang out on FB and use/post on tripadvisor quite a bit, but have made a point not to connect the two. Imagine my surprise when I got a message in my e-mail box this morning saying that a review I had just done was posted on TA and I saw my full name and FB picture. Thank goodness it was easy to change everything back to the more anonymous settings, but I sure am glad I decided to check my review to see how it looked.</p>
<p>agggh! thanks for the warning!</p>
<p>I got on Rottentomatoes (movie reviews) and got a small “Welcome, [my name.]” I have never registered on RT; I always come on anonymously.<br>
I didn’t pursue the full explanation, but had seen a blurb somewhere that various actions on Facebook allow them to build a profile- and, that your friends lists and “likes” allow them to peek at those, as well. Maybe someone knows more. If I come across the bit, will pass it along. </p>
<p>On FB, I generally only “like” occasional comments posted by friends, not events, sites or companies. Probably not a bad idea to delete cookies periodically.</p>
<p>[Facebook</a> ‘Like’ button draws privacy scrutiny | Politics and Law - CNET News](<a href=“http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20006532-38.html]Facebook”>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20006532-38.html)</p>
<p>"Even if someone is not a Facebook user or is not logged in, Facebook’s social plug-ins collect the address of the Web page being visited and the Internet address of the visitor as soon as the page is loaded–clicking on the Like button is not required. "</p>
<p>Also, see the fine print in the FB privacy statement. I am not overly agitated- I knew this was possible. I just think my kids and their friends have no idea what’s what in the electronic era.</p>
<p>I’ve had this happen as well, with our online national newspaper. At the bottom of my page when viewing the news I could see what some of my FB friends recommended as an article, and also that they commented after some articles. I just found it very creepy.</p>
<p>Yikes! I posted a review on tripadvisor yesterday, so I ran over there to check. Didn’t see any pictures of me or my name. They really should ask you before they do this. I prefer to remain anonymous. I’ve also notice the ‘recommended’ by my friends on the bottom of newspaper articles. I think its a little creepy.</p>
<p>On my Droid, if people have their phone number or email on their FB page, it automatically puts their FB picture in my contacts and their birthday on my calendar. I don’t think many people realize that. Privacy is going to be a thing of the past if people don’t pay attention to what they are doing. I read my friend’s updates on FB and occasionally post a comment but that is the extent of it. The whole thing is a little over the top. It’s fun to read about people you haven’t seen in a while but I have friends who post all day long. They will post when and where they are vacationing. Seems like that could be a real problem in terms of burglars picking up on the fact that a family is going to be out of town.</p>
<p>Also, before we hire someone now we google them and check for a FB page. It’s amazing the things people put out there for all to see.</p>
<p>OK, now I have a question. I logged onto Trip Advisor and got these "Your friends have gone here, and here are their favorite destination. How do I get that off there?</p>
<p>^ Go to your profile after you sign in and then select Facebook Setting. Check the box that says “Don’t show information about your Facebook friends.” Then go to your account information and make sure that your facebook book status is ‘disconnect’. It’s a little deceiving because the connect hyperlink will be highlighted in blue and disconnect will be grayed out. You want disconnect to be grayed out.</p>
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<p>Washington Post definitely does this as well (assuming that is not the national paper you were referring to)</p>
<p>To turn off instant personalization on ALL partner sites, you need to uncheck the box in the facebook privacy settings. This will prevent these partners from receiving any of your information through instant personalization, even content you have made available to everyone.</p>
<p>To do this, go into privacy settings, apps and websites… click on edit settings
Choose instant personlization, click on edit settings, close the window explaining the settings, uncheck the box at the bottom.</p>
<p>Fyi my fb friend posted info about a new website “spokeo” that consolidates all info that can be linked on a person including ph#, address, house value, photos, facebook, email - anything that they can tie together in one site - you can go on (without creating a user acct, or paying their monthly fee), search on your name, when you get to the one that is “you” (you search by state and then address if the US has more than one of you) - copy the url. Click on lower right tool bar “privacy” and that will give you a screen where you can request to delete that name. You do have to give an email address where they give you a confirmation that it was deleted. Freaky what people can learn about you.</p>
<p>Thanks amandakayak and lastone for those instructions. I just went on Spokeo and deleted my info. My Facebook settings were already correct, but it was good to double-check.</p>