Facebook is watching you!

Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Facebook is watching you!

Valleywag reports that Facebook employees know what profiles you look at:

"My friend got a call from her friend at Facebook, asking why she kept looking at his profile," says a privacy-conscious source at a major tech company. Turns out Facebook employees can (and do) check out anyone's profile. Not only that, but they also see which profiles a user has viewed -- a major privacy violation. If you've been obsessed with a workmate or classmate, Facebook employees know. If Barack Obama's intern has been using the campaign account to troll for hotties, Facebook employees know. Within the company, it's considered a job perk, and employees check this data for fun.

Read more here.

31/10/2007 10:17:44 PM | Facebook, Internet, Media, Privacy, Search Engines

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