Provider on my Facebook Question

[SpinnerCindy]

It could be a numerous of things, when you download a app from the app store and right before you download it, a window pops up and tells you everything the app will link with in your phone.. Most ppl just ignore it and accept it, but if you really take the time and read it, it links down to everything to from your photos, location, contacts, emails.... Everything.

[Bluesplyr]

Hobby only email address will help.

[Spurman19]

The best is when you find them on Tinder or any other site like that. They have creative ways to talk about their job. So far two for me.

[Johnrubbit]

Facebook is crawling on your contacts and phone numbers on your phone and databases then linking them back to Facebook profiles It is bullshit but being done. Don't put numbers of people that you don't want your wife or kids to See. Change the numeral before you put in contact database

[GingerKatt]

Happens to me all the time between my LinkedIn profile, Facebook, Eccie and P411. My high school and college friends are now all mixed in with my hobby contacts, as "People you may know". I have my number on LinkedIn but not Facebook anymore, but I think they use facial recognition maybe?

[tortpicker]

It's happened to me too. I told one of them and we got a good laugh. She told me to add her but I didn't do it. I keep all this as separate as I can!

[LargeBreastFan]

It may have to do with pictures that you save of providers. It happened to me once on FB with a provider, and that is the only thing I can think of - facial recognition. I didn't become FB friends, but I saved her FB page. It is nice to see she has a normal life outside of the hobby.

After I started wearing my tin-foil hat, it hasn't happened since.

[FunInDFW]

Originally Posted by GingerKatt

... but I think they use facial recognition maybe?

Lol no, not for linking people you know. It's all from something you're doing (or more likely not doing). It's far less complicated.

[johnclark]

Originally Posted by Chung Tran

if I want someone to know, I'll tell him myself. fucking Zuckerberg and his world domination.

[Shep3.0]

Since I don't see this posted...

Dear OP

Remember, if her profile is showing up on your account. Your account is showing up on her's as well.

[Sir Lancehernot]

A stripper I knew 18 years ago, and haven't heard of or seen since just popped up on my Do You Know on Facebook.

Those guys are good.

[CaptCroakers]

FB also interfaces with other apps, not just your contacts. So for example if you are logged into instagram, guess what, your instagram connections will get sweeped

[Saxum]

This phenomena is probably caused by persistent browser cookies or web beacons. Sites like Facebook want to know about ALL of your surfing, so they install tracking cookies in your browser, and then when you log into other sites, they can tell that you visited that site. If you have Facebook open in one tab, and your hobby Gmail open in another, then they can link the two together. Amazon is another company that wants to know everything about you. My suggestion is to always use some sort of "privacy mode" in your browser for hobby-related activities. On Google Chrome that's called "Incognito Mode," but I think it's just "Private Mode" in Netscape and Safari. I take it a step further and always use the Tor browser, which routes your traffic around the Internet to make it more difficult to track your IP address. It won't protect you from determined government investigation, but it does make you more anonymous to private companies. I also am a big believer in not having hobby stuff on my "regular" cell phone. I made that mistake in the past, and although nothing really bad happened, I realized after the fact how foolish it was. Using apps like Burner or Google Voice isn't really good enough for me, because there's still a record out there somewhere tying my "real" phone number to my hobby number. Nowadays my hobby phone is a cheap pre-paid "burner" flip phone from Walmart. Am I paranoid? Maybe a little. However, I've spent many years working in the tech industry, specializing in telecommunications and cyber security.

[FunInDFW]

Netscape?! Holy...

[Randall Creed]

As long as you don't have a wife or girlfriend to 'answer' to, or no one else looks at your phone but you, for the most part, you should be OK. What would help is to clear your history after you've visited escort and porn sites, BEFORE going back to FB.

What I try to get out of the habit of doing is using my phone for BP and this site. It might take some 'splainin' if you loan your phone to someone and they go to the internet and hit E or B and predictive text start kicking in.

Not that big of a deal if you keep your phone locked, though....or if you're single.