Did you know your personal answers on FaceBook Quizes/Games/Applications can and are sold to advertisers? Including email address, name, address, relationship status, medical info, etc. Once you open a FB application the application’s developer has access to everything in your profile!!!
If you’re on Facebook you get flooded with invitations for beer, bowling, and hugs all through FaceBook, of course. But something in the back of my mind prevented me from running any of them. I couldn’t get past the ominous warning that states, “Allowing {application name} access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends’ info, and other content that it requires to work.”
Well now I am very glad I refrained even though I’m sure I could have gotten a 150+ IQ test result and immediately joined Mensa. PC World has a nice article that explains why I kept refusing to click through, even though I didn’t know why at the time. Fear of the unknown is sometimes good.
Tags: facebook, social marketing