Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoSocial networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurchtechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1261arrow-down16
arrow-up1255arrow-down1external-linkSocial networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurchtechcrunch.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareEmpricornlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoMark Zuckerberg: “Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard just @ me. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS.” “What? How’d you manage that one?” a friend asked. “People just submitted it,” “I don’t know why. They ‘trust’ me. Dumb fucks.” edit: copy/paste cleanup
minus-squareSteefLem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoName address and so on i, well, understand if you buy something online to fill that in. But sns and id??? Thats all kinds of stupid. Why would you give thata willingly to fb? Its not a government entity or even a bank.
minus-squareEvergreenGuru@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoIt could be that some of that data was scraped from FB messenger.
minus-squareMaggiWuerze@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoThat quote comes the time facebook was not open to the public yet. just fellow students of his.
Mark Zuckerberg: “Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard just @ me. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS.”
“What? How’d you manage that one?” a friend asked.
“People just submitted it,” “I don’t know why. They ‘trust’ me. Dumb fucks.”
edit: copy/paste cleanup
Name address and so on i, well, understand if you buy something online to fill that in. But sns and id??? Thats all kinds of stupid. Why would you give thata willingly to fb? Its not a government entity or even a bank.
It could be that some of that data was scraped from FB messenger.
That quote comes the time facebook was not open to the public yet. just fellow students of his.