To start, I’m going to tap on “ Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity” to get a scope of just how much information Facebook is gleaning from my daily Web and Internet usage… See all those colorful icons? Those are actually the favicons of the sites that are on the top of my own OFA list. Once you’ve tapped on Off-Facebook Activity, you’ll get this initial rationalization, errr, explanation: If you aren’t seeing the Off Facebook Activity entry, make sure that you have the very latest version of the Facebook Mobile app and try again. Then tap on “ Settings” and swipe down to “Your Facebook Information”. Start on the Facebook mobile app and tap on the three horizontal lines icon on the lower right corner. My Off Facebook Activity is a log of almost 900 Web sites I’ve visited in the last few months, many of which I don’t think I ever actually saw (pop-ups? Pop-under ads? redirects to and then from the site?)Īnyway, let’s jump in so you can see your data too. Facebook describes this information collection thusly: “Off-Facebook Activity lets you see a summary of the apps and websites that send us information about your activity, and clear this information from your account if you want.” Got it? They are quick to affirm that everyone’s doing it, why are ya picking on us? which is reasonable until you see the alarming range of activity being logged. Interestingly, it seems to only be accessible through the Facebook Mobile app (all the demo videos are for mobile, for example). If you can figure out where it is and how to get to it. Finally, after a lot of negative feedback, Facebook has opened up those doors and is allowing us to not only see what other sites are reporting activity back to Facebook, but allowing us to manage it, block individual sites and even block the entire logging system. Did you realize that each and every time you visit another Web site that has any sort of data sharing relationship with Facebook that it gets logged and recorded in your Facebook profile? For years they’ve been flying under the radar with this, where we users have suspected something was going on but didn’t have any way to see.
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