This crap is why I never went back to Facebook after signing up for an account.  The privacy concerns bothered me back then and would moreso now.

More to the point, I hate advertising as much as I hate bankers... parasites, the lot of 'em.

For mine, Zuckerberg can right royally shove his website sideways up his bronzed ginger [arse]

We'll see how much they can 'improve my advertising experience' when their scripts and image bugs are blocked by default...

That's why I only post up what I don't care what the public knows. Anything else I use private settings and never connected to any social media.

I don't see ads when I use Facebook. But then again I don't see ads anywhere on any site thanks to Adblock plus.

They used to do that already a while back, through all the "like" buttons you found everywhere. If you were logged in and saw a like button, that means facebook just recorded your visit. It is believed to have been removed after some sufficient public outrage, but who can really tell for sure? And I wonder if being logged out / deleting facebook cookies will be enough for these new "improvements"?

Time to quit FB. 

Edit: Requested my account be deleted, it will take 14 days. Why so long?

Because they'll be making the privacy changes sooner, and you'll end up with their (probable) self renewing, undeletable tracking cookie before then.

That you're a member or not? They don't care. 

All he wants is the money from all those sales and resales of your information.

Meet Joe Friday's new partner.

Should have done it long ago. Oh well. At least that's all they'll get. Nothing else.

I don't know why you all are up in arms about Facebook collecting personal info about you on the internet. Google does it. No such thing as privacy if you use the internet.

Kona...read the title of the thread.

It helps.

Holy friggin moly.... What a bunch of babies... Why don't you lot drop all internet usage, and turn off your computers?

Every website you visit is tracking your 'movements' on and off-site, for various reasons. Even your ISPs are tracking you.

Are they selling/sharing these informations with third-parties? Most likely. At least some sites are open enough letting you know about it......

Don't like it?

Well.....

or

I don't think people being concerned with the privacy of their data is infantile: I think it's intelligent and their right to express that feeling needn't be met with stating it's somehow infantile.

The fact is that no one asks your permission and you don't get a commission when they do sell your info to advertisers and you don't even get a percentage of those sales either. That isn't quite right. One is left with little or no choice (really) but to suspend one's account since deleting it is not offered. 

When you signed onto the site (long ago), you weren't apprised of their plan to sell your data to advertisers and to sell these huge data bases to reap in even more money. Obviously the government agreed that their practices were out of line:

"Facebook, Google and other online companies have faced increasing scrutiny and enforcement from privacy regulators as consumers entrust ever-increasing amounts of information about their personal lives to Web services.

In 2012, Facebook settled privacy charges with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it had deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended. Under the settlement, Facebook is required to get user consent for certain changes to its privacy settings and is subject to 20 years of independent audits." - Huffpost

They are clearly in violation of that agreement, and that will probably be the subject of legal action by consumer and privacy groups:

"The settlement requires Facebook to take several steps to make sure it lives up to its promises in the future, including by giving consumers clear and prominent notice and obtaining their express consent before sharing their information beyond their privacy settings, by maintaining a comprehensive privacy program to protect consumers' information, and by obtaining biennial privacy audits from an independent third party." - http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/ftc-approves-final-settlement-facebook

since they ignore the browser setting "DO Not Track Me".

Worse, they disguise their avarice as 'doing you a favor by making their ads more 'relevant' for you" and rather than telling the truth about what they're doing with the data from the get go, they encourage you to complete in your profile.

I asked that my FB account be deleted several years ago.  I still receive, three or four time a week, a message from FB telling me there is a message waiting for me.  I just need to log in.  I don't think FB accounts are ever deleted, merely stored under a different category.  I'm actually considering doing everything important thru TOR, or some other browser that is more difficult for advertising / data stealing bots to track.

^ that would be correct, Elana.

I hate Zuckerhut it isn't tasty, it is way to sweet and unhealthy - if you fall a sleep you better not have your wallet on you or it'll be gone at the party.
Same goes for Mark you have to watch out for your stuff or it'll be gone...