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# Facebook knows about you even if you are not a member

An article about [the scope of Facebook's data collection][0] speaks for
itself; this really does not come as a surprise, but is nonetheless
unsettling.

[0]: http://www.groovypost.com/news/facebook-shadow-accounts-non-users/

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Encourage your friends, colleagues and acquaintances to use services like
[Diaspora][1] that are respectful of your data instead. Better yet: explain
to those individuals the problems of social media services and ask that they
respectfully leave you out of it.

[1]: https://joindiaspora.com/
Convert posts to markdown files This was considerable effort, and took a bit more time than I had hoped. While newer posts were written with Markdown, previous ones were writen with my own Markdown-like formatting, but they had enough differences that it was quite an effort to get things updated. I also checked the HTML output of each, though I didn't read every article in detail. Some of these were more substantial than others; National Uproar, for example. These conversions were markup translations: the actual text remains unchanged, except in one minor instance to add text for the sake of providing some text to hold a link to a quote. Any changes to post text will happen in future commits so that the diffs are clearly visible. 2018-12-17 23:31:08 -05:00			`# Facebook knows about you even if you are not a member`

			`An article about [the scope of Facebook's data collection][0] speaks for`
			`itself; this really does not come as a surprise, but is nonetheless`
			`unsettling.`

			`[0]: http://www.groovypost.com/news/facebook-shadow-accounts-non-users/`

			`<!-- more -->`

			`Encourage your friends, colleagues and acquaintances to use services like`
			`[Diaspora][1] that are respectful of your data instead. Better yet: explain`
			`to those individuals the problems of social media services and ask that they`
			`respectfully leave you out of it.`

			`[1]: https://joindiaspora.com/`