Here’s an easy way of finding out EXACTLY what Facebook knows about YOU
Discover every piece of intelligence the social network has gathered about you with this incredibly simple trick
Who knows you best? You might think it's your Mum, partner or best mate - but you're probably wrong.
Facebook and Google probably know more about you than anyone else, because you've spent the past few years essentially telling them every little thing about your existence.
The social network has a particularly large stake in your life, because most users seem to think nothing of giving Mark Zuckerberg all their photos, letting him know what they're interested in and basically handing over all manner of info which would once have been considered private.
Once you've realised that rather grim fact, you might want to think about finding out what Facebook actually knows about you.
To make this task easier, the website ProPublica has released an , which works within Google's internet browser Chrome. Just follow the link in the previous sentence to install it.
"Facebook has a particularly comprehensive set of dossiers on its more than 2 billion members,"; the website wrote.
"Every time a Facebook member likes a post, tags a photo, updates their favourite movies in their profile, posts a comment about a politician, or changes their relationship status, Facebook logs it.
"When they browse the Web, Facebook collects information about pages they visit that contain Facebook sharing buttons. When they use Instagram or WhatsApp on their phone, which are both owned by Facebook, they contribute more data to Facebook’s dossier."
Facebook stores at least 98 extremely personal details that companies can pick from when targeting their adverts.
In the interests of journalism, I let Facebook tell me what I was interested in and it told me liked happy hours, gas compressors, Bastille Day, hybrid biology and the Entre Rios province in Argentina.
Spooky. How did it know?
REVEALED: The 98 'data points' Facebook holds on all its users
1. Your location
2. Age
3. Generation
4. Gender
5. Language
6. Education level
7. Field of study
8. School
9. Ethnic background
10. Income and net worth
11. Home ownership and type of home
12. Value of home
13. Size of your property
14. Square footage of home
15. The year your home was built
16. Who lives in your house
17. Whether you have an anniversary approaching in the next month
18. If you’re living away from family or hometown
19. Whether you’re friends with someone who has an anniversary, is newly married or engaged, recently moved, or has an upcoming birthday
20. If you’re in a long-distance relationship
21. If you’re in a new relationship
22. If you have have a new job
23. If you’re recently engaged
24. If you’ve just got married
25. If you’ve moved house recently
26. When your birthday is coming up
27. Parents
28. Expectant parents
29. Mothers, divided by ‘type’ (which includes ‘soccer mums’ or other maternal tribes)
30. If you are likely to engage in politics
31. Whether you are conservative or liberal
32. Relationship status
33. Employer
34. Industry
35. Job title
36. Office type
37. Interests
38. Whether you own a motorcycle
39. If you’re planning to buy a car
40. If you have purchased auto parts or accessories recently
41. If you are likely to buy auto parts or services
42. The style and brand of your car
43. The year your car was bought
44. Age of car
45. How much money you’re likely to spend on next car
46. Where you are likely to buy next car from
47. How many employees your company has
48. If you own small businesses
49. If you work in management or are executives
50. If you have donated to charity (divided by type)
51. Operating system
52. If you play browser games
53. If you own a gaming console
54. If you have created a Facebook event
55. If you have used Facebook Payments
56. If you have spent more than average on Facebook Payments
57. If you administer a Facebook page
58. If you have recently uploaded photos to Facebook
59. Internet browser
60. Email service
61. Early/late adopters of technology
62. If you are an expat and what country you left
63. If you belong to a credit union, national bank or regional bank
64. If you are an investor
65. Number of credit lines
66. If you are an active credit card users
67. Credit card type
68. If you own a debit card
69. If you carry a balance on your credit card
70. If you listen to the radio
71. What TV shows you like
72. If you use a mobile device and what brand it is
73. Internet connection type
74. If you have recently bought a smartphone or tablet
75. Whether you access the Internet through a smartphone or tablet
76. If you use coupons
77. The type of clothing your household buys
78. Which time of year you do the most shopping
79. Whether you are a ‘heavy’ buyer of beer, wine or spirits
80. What groceries you buy
81. Whether you buy beauty products
82. Whether you buy medications
83. Whether you buy/spend money on household products
84. Whether you buy/spend money on products for kids or pets, and what kinds of pets
85. If your household makes more purchases than is average
86. If you tend to shop online or offline
87. The types of restaurants user you eat at
88. The kinds of stores you shop at
89. If you’re interest in adverts offering auto insurance, mortgages or satellite telly
90. Length of time user you have lived your house
91. If you are likely to move soon
92. If you are are interested in the Olympics, football or cricket
93. If you travel frequently
94. Whether you commute to work
95. The type of holiday you enjoy
96. If you have recently returned from a holiday
97. If you have used a travel app
98. Whether you are involved in a timeshare
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