What personal information Facebook knows about all of its users

Imagine for a moment that all the people in the world live in one huge building, where the order is supported by special agents, each action of which is determined solely by concern for the safety of residents. But there comes a point when you notice that these agents are constantly watching you. They control your conversations, actions, location, and what exactly you say.

Do you think that this is impossible? But we already live in a world in which even personal information is not a secret. Especially if you are a user of social networks, such as Facebook. The results of the study conducted by ProPublica help us understand what social networks know about each of us.

Here is what information is available to "Facebook"

• Everything you like: photos, notes, people, videos, comments. Facebook analyzes all your likes and reposts.
• All your private messages to other users.
• Deleted messages, posts and comments. Even if you have long since destroyed them, they remain on Facebook servers.
• All the messages you started typing, but never sent. The same goes for posts. Yes, you understood everything correctly - Facebook remembers even that you changed your mind about publishing and deleting!

• All photos and videos that you published or made their repost. And even those that other users shared with you.
• The time when you added someone to friends or deleted from friends, as well as information about when and with whom you are actively communicating.
• All your actions, likes and messages through Instagram or WhatsApp (which belong to Facebook).
• All the events you attended, as well as places, cities and countries that you visited.
• All the devices that you used to log into your account.
• Your activity on the websites where you are registered via Facebook. This is all sites where registering with e-mail takes longer than when you use Facebook.

• The level of your education and income.
• The websites you visited because of messages or ads in your news feed. Have you ever wondered why Facebook advertises things that really interest you?
• Any pages you visit that contain the Share on Facebook button or even Like.
• The numbers of your credit cards.
• Your political preferences, and especially those comments that you wrote and that can be used against you.

• Your face. When someone marks you in a photo, Facebook enters it into their database to more accurately identify the person in subsequent photos.

Should I delete my profile?

If, after reading this, you want to delete all of your accounts in social media, remember that even such a step will not mean that it will help to delete your personal information from Facebook databases. In fact, it will remain there forever. The secret is that you do not need to leave the "house" where all of humanity lives. It is enough to know how to behave in this "house".