Facebook Tests Software to Track Your Cursor on Screen

[A Guy]

Facebook Inc. is testing technology that would greatly expand the scope of data that it collects about its users, the head of the company’s analytics group said Tuesday.

The social network may start collecting data on minute user interactions with its content, such as how long a user’s cursor hovers over a certain part of its website, or whether a user’s newsfeed is visible at a given moment on the screen of his or her mobile phone, Facebook analytics chief Ken Rudin said Tuesday during an interview.

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A Guy

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Yet another reason to stay away—far, far away—from F-book.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Meh

Real malware has been able to do this for years.

Yet another reason to stay away—far, far away—from F-book.

They really are total scum, "lower than a snake's belly".

 

[x BlueRobot]

Why did I ever let my persuade me to use Facebook again?

 

[Layback Bear]

I do believe that most people that use Facebook don't know or care what Facebook does with their information or how they gather that information.

 

[Borg 386]

Yet another reason to stay away—far, far away—from F-book.

Yepperz

 

[x BlueRobot]

I do believe that most people that use Facebook don't know or care what Facebook does with their information or how they gather that information.

 

[andrew129260]

I have one, but dont have anything stored on it really. I just talk to friends on it and thats it. I hate FB though, wish I could get rid of it.

 

[Superluigi6]

n/a

 

[andrew129260]

Knowing facebook, its your whole browser screen window they will be looking at, not just your cursor.

 

[ThisIsMadness91]

Almost everyone I know has a Facebook page. Apart from perhaps keeping in touch with people you don't often get to see, I've never seen the appeal. The more I hear about it, the worse it sounds. I'm glad I never let anyone talk me into using it. Unfortunately, if I tried to tell anyone about this announcement, they'd either have no idea what I was talking about or would just dismiss it.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I have one, but dont have anything stored on it really. I just talk to friends on it and thats it. I hate FB though, wish I could get rid of it.

Email works just fine for me.

 

[andrew129260]

True, but email does not have everything all in one place. Like photos of important events, etc. And ick "chain emails" *Shudder*

I am thinking about deleting my account though. I notice social networking kills actual communication like before all this social media crap. But for people you cant talk on the phone to, or people who dont have the time, its nice.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

True, but email does not have everything all in one place. Like photos of important events, etc. And ick "chain emails" *Shudder*...

I use web based email (Yahoo, now run by a yahoo). I just save anything worth keeping, generally with copy and paste (often, better resolution than downloading, odd as it sounds) to a Word doc.

 

[A Guy]

I understand the possibility of Facebook. Have relatives far away? Friends you haven't seen in years? Grandparents far from their grandchildren? Sure.

But it seems to me there are a great many people who have to be in constant contact and relay every triviality of their existence. They are constantly "talking", but saying nothing. The process of "catching up" and sharing information is diminished by the constant babble.

It's like Twitter and texting on phones. There is nothing being said, but it's being said constantly.

That said, I am painting with broad strokes, but this is what I perceive.

A Guy

 

[x BlueRobot]

I understand the possibility of Facebook. Have relatives far away? Friends you haven't seen in years? Grandparents far from their grandchildren? Sure.

But it seems to me there are a great many people who have to be in constant contact and relay every triviality of their existence. They are constantly "talking", but saying nothing. The process of "catching up" and sharing information is diminished by the constant babble.

It's like Twitter and texting on phones. There is nothing being said, but it's being said constantly.

That said, I am painting with broad strokes, but this is what I perceive.

A Guy

"But it seems to me there are a great many people who have to be in constant contact and relay every triviality of their existence. They are constantly "talking", but saying nothing. The process of "catching up" and sharing information is diminished by the constant babble."

This is so true! One tweet I saw today was: "spots need to stop existing", and that's it.

Twitter is far worse for mindless babble than Facebook, but it's useful for getting updates on news (Sophos etc.), blog updates (Security Researchers, Developers and Debuggers) and Q/A website updates (Stack Overflow and Security Exchange are my favorites).

Twitter is good if used properly, it's a different concept to Facebook since it's technically a "micro-blog".

 

[4wd]

F*book is now supplying all their members with free toothbrushes, equipped with camera and wifi. Been in planning for years, now finally released to the eagerly waiting public: live streaming of teeth-brushing to your fb page! This has been sought-after by all the zillions of fb users.

Great, now all your friends can have a look at your fillings (and share theirs), and the data is of course collected, stored for all eternity, and retransmitted to all dentists on the planet so they can give you fantastic offers.

It's use is of course not mandatory, but after a few days of no streaming, MZ will pay you a visit, asking you why you are sabotaging his grand plans for the universe.

 

[Alejandro85]

This immediately remembered me of this post: http://www.sevenforums.com/security...ackers-advertisers-track-cursor-movement.html

Which means that technology is already invented, proven and in use by potentially thousands of sites already, as long as you're using IE. The new wold be if FB lets the same happen for serious browsers too.

The problem with Facebook isn't however that they publish something about you or just collect your data. Reallity is that THE USERS give away their private life for it to publish, all incluiding photos, videos, all comments about your everyday activities, all are available because you wrote them in a public place to begin with. Whatever "data" they might collect is mostly irrelevant in comparison.

 

[4wd]

An interesting view: One more thing teens hate: Facebook - MarketWatch

 

[Gekie]

I haved moved from fb to g+ now. Will g+ do the same thing?