{"id":7251,"date":"2017-12-12T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2017-12-05T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:59:49","slug":"linked-how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-ever-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/linked-how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-ever-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You&#8217;ve Ever Met&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-facebook-figures-out-everyone-youve-ever-met-1819822691\">via Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Facebook warns users to be judicious about using all this data. \u201cYou may have business or personal contacts in your phone,\u201d the Learn More screen admonishes the reader. \u201cPlease only send friend requests to people you know personally who would welcome the invite.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Having issued this warning, and having acknowledged that people in your address book may not necessarily want to be connected to you, Facebook will then do exactly what it warned you not to do. If you agree to share your contacts, every piece of contact data you possess will go to Facebook, and the network will then use it to try to search for connections between everyone you know, no matter how slightly\u2014and you won\u2019t see it happen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s actually not that difficult when billions of people upload their contact info to Facebook to draw these links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Gizmodo: Facebook warns users to be judicious about using all this data. \u201cYou may have business or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-12-12T17:59:35Z","apple_news_api_id":"20e14752-b799-4ded-b0f2-4a1e2a3ab53a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-12-12T17:59:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AIOFHUreZTe2w8koeKjq1Og","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1SX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4682,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/06\/07\/linked-bots-thanking-bots\/","url_meta":{"origin":7251,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Bots Thanking Bots&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via 500 words: on Facebook\u2019s new feature that allows you to type 1 in the birthday box when someone is having a birthday and a bot automatically sends \u201cHappy Birthday!\u201d to them as you. 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