I was inspecting Facebook's network traffic today in Firefox Devtools,
when I realized that any text I put into the status update box was sent to
Facebook's servers, even if I did not click the post button. Ever curious,
I Googled this behaviour and came across a study which reveals some very
frightening information:
Facebook calls these unposted thoughts "self-censorship," and insights
into how it collects these nonposts can be found in a recent paper
written by two Facebookers.
Via Lobsters, Facebook sending 'nonposts' to its servers
and storing unpublished thoughts
I wouldn't be surprised if all the sites in the
MyFaceGoogleBookPlusSpaceosphere aren't doing the same thing. And the thing
is, when I do a search on “experimenting on unwilling subjects” the results
all seem to be Na
zis Nazis Nazis for some reason. Just approach FaceGoogleMyPlusSpaceBook
that everything posted, whether “private” or not, is going to be
seen by everybody. Because it is.
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