That must have been a long time ago. Nowadays there are a lot of safeguards and that's one of the things that gets you fired right away.

Nowadays when you visit someones profile you show up on their suggested friend list. Creepy or cute, a deliberate information leak.

viewing someones profile without them knowing is not creepy?

After getting scammed on Facebook Marketplace, I look at the profiles of sellers, particularly if they don’t have much in way of reviews. That seems more prudent than creepy to me. I’m not stalking anyone and I’m not looking to be their friend.

Is there a better way to do seller verification? It does seem like an information leak to me. Craigslist and eBay don’t share my identification as a potential buyer. I don’t love the marketplace being tied to a social network, but it’s what many people are using these days.

sure, showing up on suggested friends is weird. the way linkedin does it makes more sense: "these people have viewed your profile". i was picking up on hiding it outright. while that may be justified in your case, it's also reasonable to let them know.

the only people i would really not want to find out that i look at their profile are spammers and scammers (oh, and stalkers).

so both sides have a fair reason. so guess, if you can, choose the social network that works the way you prefer.

It is creepy, that's what they're saying.

what i understood is that "showing up on their suggested friends list is creepy, and it's an information leak". the way i read that is that they would prefer not to show when someone visited their profile. and that's what i consider creepy.

sneaking up to someones house and peeping in theier windows is creepy. or just camping out in front of their window from the street legally.

but that person had to put their info into the website, themselves, by choice, and then chose to let their privacy settings be such that others can view them.

if you pin your photo up to a cork board, don't be surprised if people see it

but the reverse is true too. if you look someone up, don't be surprised if they find out. really, i don't see how that would be a big deal.

with more and more illegitimate tracking being done, informing those being tracked seems a benefit, not a drawback.

there is a difference however between one institution tracking who all the people are that i am looking at, vs the person i am looking at finding out for themselves who is looking at them.

I keep reading same statements here for past 10+ years, every time some similar fuckup @fb happens. Every. Single. Time.

0 trust in that company, 0 trust in its employees.

Yes, in a "never_do_this_or_you_will_be_fired" kind of way

Wouldn’t it be nice if the scope of what you witnessed was limited to that one company…

What other companies have the scope of Meta(-stasis) FB?

Google, since you asked.

But the point is: Facebook attracts these employees, it doesn’t breed them.

Microsoft (Teams).

Are they able to see these data of whichever user whenever they want with no trails at all??

It certainly sounded like it, or that no one cared about the trails since they thought it was so hilarious.

Absolutely not. I'm no friend of Zucc, but the graph is protected by a permission system that won't show almost anything for employees without a making a request including legitimate business reason, for a limited time and scope, and managerial approval.

Crooks. The lot of them. Hope the host checked thoroughly for missing property because I wouldn't put it past a metamate.

Wouldn't surprise me. Everyone clutches their pearls and hits the downvote button as soon as you mention the Zucc quote, but has there really been any evidence that the company culture has matured away from "They Trust Me - Dumb fucks"?

It was more than one person and yes, it's vile that they had access to this information and a culture of spying (and joking about it). They also said they could tell how long someone was looking at each image. The whole company is basically perverted spyware, which absolutely makes sense if you know how and why it was conceived.

You could make that claim about all of public society in some way. Why go anywhere, unless it’s to be spied on and spy on others.

You CAN make that claim but it isn't right, not comparable at all

No

Tesla employees talk about recordings of people fucking in cars around the watercooler