I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this

Re:I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook pri... by bigiain on Monday November 28, 2011 @05:08PM (#3287850)

"I immediately changed my DOB on facebook"

Hmmm, I wonder what Facebook does when someone changes something like their DOB? Or name/address/email/phone? Or any other marketing-useful data in your profile?

If _I_ were part of the Facebook Evil-Data-Mining Division, I'd certainly be looking to see if I can discern patterns like "This phillmv guy's _real_ birthday is 12/03/1975, but when he changes it for sites he doesn't trust he tends to use either 1st April 1980, or 22nd Sept (which is his girlfriends birthday) instead. And he usually changes his zipcode to the one his parents used to live at before they moved to Pittsburg."

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Re:I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook pri... by mattbot5000 on Monday November 28, 2011 @06:43PM (#3288213)

Facebook also limits the number of times you can change your DOB, though I'm not sure what that limit is.

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Re:I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook pri... by phillmv on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @02:13PM (#3291703)

This is extremely hateful. Like with the Google Plus real name thing.

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Re:I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook pri... by sneak on Monday November 28, 2011 @09:19PM (#3288661)

Terrifying, as 1st April 1980 is exactly my DOB for this purpose. April fools unite!

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