Lets Find Out Much How Much Exactly Facebook Knows About You

Facebook knows plenty about you than you could imagine.

Facebook knows all about the places you’ve been and has access to all the pictures and videos you’ve uploaded to it.

It knows your income, the type of holiday you like and how old your car is, by joining the dots and making some generalised assumptions based on your profile, pictures, likes and friends.

It’s pretty simple. If you’ve entered information into the social network, it’s there to stay.

But if you really fancy freaking yourself out, you can now see exactly what information about you it’s selling to companies, so they can target you with adverts.

And a quick browse also reveals which companies Facebook is handing your contact information over to.

WHAT DOES FACEBOOK KNOW - OR GUESS - ABOUT YOU?

1. Your income

2. If you live away from your home town

3. Property size

4. If you have a credit card

5. If it’s all been paid off

6. If you commute

7. Whether you buy medication

8. The type of holiday you enjoy

9. How old your car is

10. If you own a games console

11. If you are in a long distance relationship

So, want to find out who has your details?

Simply head to “Settings”, and click “Download a copy of your Facebook data”.

You will then be sent an email which you can download as a “.zip file”.

This will provide you with documents including every message you have ever sent, places you’ve checked in and contact information.

The reason why Facebook stores this information is because it makes it money by promising big companies that it can advertise to specific types of people.

That’s why you get targeted adverts based on things you have liked and your gender or age.

HOW TO STOP FACEBOOK COLLECTING YOUR DATA

1. Use the “private browsing” setting whenever you are online.

2. Clear out your cookies – these are small bits of software that stay on your computer and track your activity.

3. Change your phone settings to stop the Facebook app seeing things such as your photos or location.

4. Don’t “like” things on Facebook. Instead, deprive the social network of data about you.

5. Log off!

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