Facebook Marketplace?

[JoshT]

You complain about facebook putting out listings not in your area? But then someone suggests give it false information about yourself so you can sell stuff on it? How will the search feature work if you do not give it truthful information?

And limited access to your account does not limit facebook itself to all your information, just other users. And therein is where the problem lies with facebook. I recommend you stay off it.

Yes I did complain about that, but I did not say to lie about your location. My complaint is people posting shit in their actual area, then the Facebook algorithm showing me their shit in Washington, California, Arizona, etc when I limited my search area to basically the state of Georgia. I never said jack about lying about your location, I said restrict public access to your information.

Everything is tracking and sharing your information. If you are worried about what Facebook is doing you need to vacate the internet and any technology newer than a rotary phone ASAP. Including this forum and the technology you used to access it. If you are going to bring that conspiracy crap up in here at least get and keep your facts straight, don't try twisting what is written on this very thread to fit your agenda.

Damn nutters. Even if you managed to avoid tracking of all your information, the lack of info is something to track and yells a lot. Data collection and exchange is the new currency you can't avoid it. Facebook is only a small part of the data collection business, you'd have to hold up in an igloo in Antarctica to avoid most of it, and they'd still be collecting data on you.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Yes I did complain about that, but I did not say to lie about your location. My complaint is people posting shit in their actual area, then the Facebook algorithm showing me their shit in Washington, California, Arizona, etc when I limited my search area to basically the state of Georgia. I never said jack about lying about your location, I said restrict public access to your information.

Everything is tracking and sharing your information. If you are worried about what Facebook is doing you need to vacate the internet and any technology newer than a rotary phone ASAP. Including this forum and the technology you used to access it. If you are going to bring that conspiracy crap up in here at least get and keep your facts straight, don't try twisting what is written on this very thread to fit your agenda.

Damn nutters. Even if you managed to avoid tracking of all your information, the lack of info is something to track and yells a lot. Data collection and exchange is the new currency you can't avoid it. Facebook is only a small part of the data collection business, you'd have to hold up in an igloo in Antarctica to avoid most of it, and they'd still be collecting data on you.

This is all true. However I try to minimize what can be collected.

 

[racsan]

Brenda can be researching something online but not be on fakebook, then suddenly the next time she is on her fakebook account ads will pop up for whatever she was looking up.
Personally I liked the site “letgo” but it merged with another listing site called “offer up”. Its not very good. Craigslist seems to be more geared toward certian major cities, marketplace will at least show you things near you but also give results a state or few over. My 94 ranger I found through either marketplace or letgo, don’t really remember which, its been about 6 years now, Id love to show the kid I got it from what it looks like now.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Brenda can be researching something online but not be on fakebook, then suddenly the next time she is on her fakebook account ads will pop up for whatever she was looking up.
Personally I liked the site “letgo” but it merged with another listing site called “offer up”. Its not very good. Craigslist seems to be more geared toward certian major cities, marketplace will at least show you things near you but also give results a state or few over. My 94 ranger I found through either marketplace or letgo, don’t really remember which, its been about 6 years now, Id love to show the kid I got it from what it looks like now.

Me and the wife were TALKING about her getting her CPL one day and she started getting a bunch of holster ads and stuff on her FB.

They listen too.

 

[Blmpkn]

Everything thats connected to the internet listens.


Smart phones will listen.

I've literally had Ads here on TRS that were only suggested for me because my phone heard a conversation about whatever it was earlier in the day.

 

[racsan]

“1984” is here. (george orwell ‘84 that is)

 

[rusty ol ranger]

“1984” is here. (george orwell ‘84 that is)

I wish it was the real 1984

 

[racsan]

I wish it was the real 1984

me too, order me a supercab 300-6 creeper 4 speed F250, then in ‘86 get a supercab ranger 2.9 4x4.

 

[Chapap]

Everything thats connected to the internet listens.


Smart phones will listen.

I've literally had Ads here on TRS that were only suggested for me because my phone heard a conversation about whatever it was earlier in the day.

I’m pretty sure I read something about smart phones 100% being able to listen. Some 3 letter agency got wind of some event and stopped it. It rolled around in the courts and they’re the only thing keeping big brother from listening at the moment… or letting anyone know they’re listening

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

It's not so much the government, not even the ad companies. It the insurance companies that could drop you because they found out you were looking at cancer cures, or pregnancy tests. Ok, it's the government too.

 

[Blmpkn]

Hell... even a smart TV that doesn't have a microphone for voice control could be listening to you by using its speakers backwards lol.

 

[franklin2]

I wonder if that is a valid concern. They *shouldn't* know anything about you other than email/phone. They may communicate with (buy info from) other sites. They may actively try to buy info associated with your email. That sounds far fetched, but I could see it happening.

I think the main source of their info comes from you interacting with FB. Watching videos, looking at pics, seraching marketplace. There's supposed to be an amazing amount of info to glean about a person just by observing them... and FB's algorithms are definitely observing.

They watch EVERYTHING you do on the computer. Ever do some research on something, and then see ads for that particular thing pop up on FB? Just like google, they keep track of everything. They know which way you are politically leaning also. I am sure each time you visit this stie they know about it. Even though I am not on FB, I see each time I get on the site, something about facebook pops up in the lower right corner (I use firefox browser and it tells you a little about what's going on).

If you want to get off facebook, just google that subject. They have instructions on there how to do it, I have been free from them for several years now, even though they still probably track me.

 

[sgtsandman]

If you access anything via the internet via phone or computer, they have a good bit of info on you already. You join a forum or a social media site, that fills in a lot of blanks.

Commercial companies and the government have been data mining people for years.

 

[1990RangerinSK]

Just make a fake profile. I got a couple buddys who refuse Facebook but want access to marketplace.. one of them goes by Sparrow Marshall and the others "name" is something like C. Dingus McGovern lol.

That's actually against their community standards. They are fully within their rights to remove your account if you don't use your real name.

 

[1990RangerinSK]

Really the only info FB will have on you is your email, phone number, and city. Just make everything else up. Is there an "about me" section on FB? Might put in there that you made the account just to sell stuff so perspective buyers (hopefully) don't think you're a scammer.

Anybody who's smart would still see that and think you're a scammer. FTR, scammers are REALLY easy to spot:

• Obviously fake name
• Incorrect information about the item they're selling
  • This one really gets me. They'll be selling a Mazda B3000, but the listing says it's a Ford Ranger.
  • I'm not talking about the ads for a vehicle model that Facebook doesn't include in their listing setup, so the seller lists it as something else (lists a Ford Courier as a Ford F100) and then in the listing description correctly identifies that it's a Courier.
• Ridiculous price (a 1990 Ranger being listed for $10,000.00.
• Misrepresent condition of the item
  • claim that a truck runs just fine, but you go to look at it and it has major issues
  • Not disclosing the fact that a vehicle doesn't run, or failed the latest safety

The only down side to Marketplace in cases like this is that there's no way to report the ad as misrepresenting the product.