Category: Facebook

What the New Name for Facebook Will Be

In case you haven’t heard, Facebook (FB) has announced that it is planning on changing its name in order to rebrand as a met averse company. This plan is supposed to help the company distance itself from the issues that the Facebook division has been having.

Remember, that Facebook owns Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and many other companies.

The announcement is expected to be made next week.

An online gambling website, SportsBetting.ag, has put together a list of potential names and their odds of being selected.

The name with the best odds on the list is Virtuel, with Connect and Horizon tied for second place.

Here is the list of possible names along with the odds:

  • Virtuel  4-1
  • Connect  5-1
  • Horizon  5-1
  • Ecoverse  7-1
  • Metabook  8-1
  • Immerse  8-1
  • Omniverse  10-1
  • Persistem  12-1
  • Ecompass  12-1
  • Metanet  14-1
  • Sodigeco  20-1
  • MetaRack  25-1
  • Openverse  25-1
  • MetaLand  33-1
  • MetaLife  33-1
  • Dataverse  33-1
  • MetaMatrix  40-1
  • WeOwn  40-1
  • MyFace  50-1
  • Lifelog  50-1
  • ZuckRack  66-1
  • Subversive  66-1
  • MetaMark  80-1
  • MetaBeast  80-1
  • Zuckers  100-1

I’m surprised that the name Zuck wasn’t;t on the list. It’s a nice short, four-letter, easy-to-remember name.

The site is also offering bets on whether Mark Zuckerberg will resign as CEO before 2023. The results are:

  • Yes 3-2
  • No 1-2
  • which implies that there is a 66.7% probability that Zuckerberg will not resign

So, what do you think would be the best name for the company?

Disclosure: Author has a long biased option position in FB.

 

How to Check if your Facebook Data was used by Cambridge Analytica

I won’t review the information about Facebook (FB) and Cambridge Analytica, as the news is all over the place. However, many users of Facebook want to find out if their Facebook data was used by Cambridge Analytica, and are awaiting for notification on their Facebook page.

No need to wait. Go to the following link with will bring you to Facebook’s Help Page on the incident, where you can find out if your info was shared.

https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476

If you are not logged in to Facebook, it will give you a message asking you to log in first.

If you are logged in, you will get a screen that looks like the following:

Facebook Data Help

The bottom box will show you whether or not your data was shared.

Your Secret Data that Facebook Has On You: How to Find It

During the last week, the price of Facebook (FB) stock tanked from 177.01 to 159.39, a drop of over $17 a share or 10%. By now, everyone has heard abut the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal.

I check the data that the company has on me and I was shocked. They had five of my email addresses, but I had only given them one. Of course they had my date of birth, my phone number, and many of my interests.

When I ran a report, it showed everything ever entered on my timeline, all my firiends, friends sent requests, friends received requests, all my messages, pokes, events, etc, etc., etc. You get the picture.

What I found really weird was the list of 58 different advertisers that had my contact information. Another unusual thing was that they have a couple of pictures of me that I never uploaded.

If you have ever wondered what personal information Facebook has on you, here is what you can do.

Go to http://Facebook.com/settings
If you aren’t already logged in to Facebook, you will have to do so at this time.

Click on the link that says “Download  a Copy”

This brings you to another screen. Click “Download Archive”

Then it asks you for your password again:

Once it downloads, double click on the Facebook folder.

I would suggest starting out by double clicking on the Index file.

Once you do that, click on each menu item shown on the left, starting with Profile (see above).

When you click on the Ads link, you may be surprised to find out what advertisers have your contact info. My account showed dozens and dozens.

Now that you know what information is being stored about you, you can be a lot more careful about what sites you go to, what information you provide to what sites, what links you click on, and clearing your cache.