Guessing Your Middle Name

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John Connor

Lifer
Nov 30, 2012
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Matthew? Not even close...no one will ever be able to guess my middle name since it's so atypical...it's actually my Mom's Maiden name.


Got the same thing. I see these stupid tests all the time. If your loged in to facebook of course it will know your middle name. I think all these tests are just marketing ploys. And people fall for the shit.
 

Crono

Lifer
Aug 8, 2001
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Got the same thing. I see these stupid tests all the time. If your loged in to facebook of course it will know your middle name. I think all these tests are just marketing ploys. And people fall for the shit.

The sad thing is that no one seems to care. When people do quit, they usually end up rejoining after a while. The network effect is really strong with Facebook. I think it would have been MySpaced by the likes of another company (like Path or Google Plus, or some other one) already, were it not extremely hard for anything to reach critical mass. The creepy factor alone doesn't seem to be a big enough deterrent, even with all the privacy concerns and data collecting going on... and this is besides the layout being crummy and stuck in 2005, the horrendous compression of photos, the terrible algorithms for who ends up in your news feed (a lot of sponsored junk if you ever like anything), etc.

The funny thing is that you'll see people posting about such concerns on Facebook itself, but the site is like a drug that 1/6th of the world (or whatever insane number they are up to) can't seem to quit.
 

Sonikku

Lifer
Jun 23, 2005
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ImpulsE69

Lifer
Jan 8, 2010
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Those that it didn't get right.

1. Do you have a FB account?

2. Were you logged into it? :p

Obvious data mining hack is obvious.