Facebook's New Business Plan: From Utility to Monopoly

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 by The Guardian/UK
In the wake of its IPO debacle, expect Facebook to leverage its market dominance aggressively – with its billion users hostage
by Dan Gillmor
The tweet, posted a little over two years ago by someone with deep connections in the internet world, was illuminating. It said, simply:

"A friend working for Facebook: 'we're like electricity.'"

I recalled that tweet last week when Facebook made two announcements of note. First, as everyone knows by now, it has a billion users – including, I suspect, nearly everyone I know. I scarcely use the social network myself, but I am constantly invited to look at items that others post there – and which are unavailable unless I log in. It is getting more and more difficult to avoid Facebook in daily life, and if Facebook gets its wish, it will be an outright necessity.

The second announcement was relatively minor in the bigger scheme of things – Facebook's plan to charge a fee, rumored to be $7, for users who want to place a post high in their followers' news feeds. Wall Street saw the fee as yet another way Facebook might generate revenues – an ever-stronger mandate from shareholders and the financial community in the wake of the company's fumbled IPO.

Both moves spoke to the growing influence of this still-young company, and to its genuine potential to become what amounts to a public utility. It's not as essential as electricity yet, but that goal is not as far out of reach as you might think.

Facebook's ever-expanding user base is easy to understand. It's the ultimate (so far) positive feedback loop – the network effect run wild. The service does offer value to its users, after all: convenience and connections. Sorry to say, most people value their privacy so little these days that they shrug off just about every new abuse of their personal data because the convenience and connections are worth it. Even people and companies that are deeply suspicious of Facebook's motives – with ample reasons for their suspicions – now feel obliged to use the service anyway, compounding Facebook's authority by posting items there and nowhere else. For people like me, who try to avoid using it, this increasingly means either signing in or not seeing things I'd like to see.

One of Facebook's most audacious initiatives has been in the developing world. As featured in an in-depth piece in the Atlantic magazine's new Quartz business news site, Facebook is subsidizing mobile phone data service, making it "free" for users – but with a catch: for all practical purposes, Facebook then becomes their entry into the internet. The company has made no secret of its desire to become what amounts to an alternative internet, and this is a brilliant – if disturbing – way to make that a fait accompli in a number of places where mobile data services are much more important and ubiquitous than what happens on desktop and laptop personal computers. In such places, Facebook will be wedded to national information networks and the governments that control them.

Electricity? Not exactly. But close enough.

Facebook's goal is not just to connect people with each other, but also to be the ubiquitous entry point for those connections. It wants to become what amounts to a public utility. The more Facebook makes itself an essential part of our lives – or, more accurately, the more we make it so – the easier it will be for the company to start charging us for using it. Users have been the product until now; advertisers buy access to us and our personal data. But the $7 fee, which is surely aimed more at businesses than average users, is a way of ensuring that messages get seen.

Only Facebook (and maybe Twitter) could even attempt to do this kind of thing, because it owns the user experience so completely. In its best walled-garden days, AOL couldn't have pulled this off with email, because even then, it didn't have Facebook's kind of dominance.

Market dominance always leads to distortions. Competition is always the preferred cure. But we have other methods, too, and it's not too soon to be contemplating them. We have antitrust laws designed to curb abuses, and we regulate public utilities because we can't trust them not to abuse their positions.

Will policy-makers awaken anytime soon? They'd better.

Low-wage Facebook contractor leaks secret censorship list

By Stephen C. Webster RAW Story
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

A secret list curated by social network giant Facebook was published online recently after an employee for one of the company’s third-world contractors, upset at his poor working conditions and meager wage, decided to fight back.

The document reveals exactly what Facebook’s censorship brigade looks for on the social network, which boasts over 850 million users spanning the globe.

Referred to internally as the “bible,” the list prioritizes deletion of materials pertaining to Holocaust denial, graphic nudity, depictions of any sexual fetish, racial slurs and bullying — all of which are unsurprising — but a few of the other entries are raising eyebrows.

Namely, female nipples or even the impressions of nipples under clothing are unacceptable to Facebook censors, whereas male nipples are fine. Images of breast feeding, too, are forbidden if they show an exposed nipple. “Crushed heads” and mutilated limbs are also fine, so long as the person posting such images does not express delight and no internal organs are visible. The list specifically says that on this point, no exceptions would be made for news media.

Also verboten: images of bodily fluids, including ear wax and pus; dead animals; advocacy of violence; advocacy of eating disorders; racial jokes where “the humor is not evident”; and “any photoshopped images of people, whether negative, positive or neutral”; “pixelated or black-barred content showing nudity or sexual activity”; “digital/cartoon nudity”; and images of drunk or sleeping people with “things drawn on their faces.”

All that aside, images depicting marijuana use are fine, unless an individual appears to be growing, buying or selling the drug. “Art nudity” is okay, and so are videos of schoolyard fights — unless the video was posted with the intent to humiliate another user.

The list’s disclosure by gossip blog Gawker marks the first time that the public has been given a glimpse at the inner-workings of the planet’s largest social network.

Facebook has long been criticized by free speech activists for barring images of breast feeding and deleting accounts created by Palestinian resistance groups, but since it is a private company, Facebook is allowed to obstruct virtually any content it wishes.

The list also shines a light on Facebook’s darker underbelly: how it uses third-world laborers to police first-world content.

Amine Derkaoui, the 21-year-old Moroccan who leaked the document, claimed he was hired by a firm Facebook uses to outsource content policing, only to be paid $1 an hour for his efforts.

“They are just exploiting the third world,” he told Gawker.

Facebook’s media relations department did not respond to a request for comment.

Facebook’s application for an initial public offering (IPO) on the U.S. stock markets was valued earlier this month at somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion, making it the largest IPO request ever. Shares in the company are expected to go up for sale later this year.

Facebook said it made over $3.71 billion in 2011, largely from advertising fees.

CIA sifts through social media sites

Privacy: Google+ vs Facebook

(Is there a clear winner? You can see who loses though--US! As in, USers...--jef)

Facebook’s Data Pool

Introduction. Every person in the EU has the right to access all the data that a company is holding about him/her. You can find out how to access your facebook data on the page “your data...”. After we got the first response by facebook it was clear to us that we had to publish this information online. By doing so, we want to make facebook more transparent and show every user which data facebook is holding about us.

There is more Data. Many groups of data are not included in this first set of data we got from facebook. For example data concerning the “like”-function, tracking on other webpages, face recognition, videos, postings on other users walls, indicators for the intensity of relationships, tags that werde removes and many more were (so far) not disclosed by facebook.

Index. These groups of data were disclosed by facebook (click for more details):

00. Target 00.DateRange ----------------- 01. About Me 02.AccountEndDate 03.AccountStatusHistory 04. Address 05. Alternate Name 06. Applications 07. Chat 08. Checkins 09. Connections 10. Credit Cards 11. Currency 12. Current City

13. Date of Birth 14. Education 15. E-Mails 16. Events 17. Family 18.FavouriteQuotes 19.FriendRequests 20. Friends 21. Gender 22. Groups 23. Hometown 24. Last Location 25.LinkedAccounts 26. Locale 27. Logins

28. Machines 29. Messages 30. Minifeed 31. Name 32.NameChanges 33. Networks 34. Notes 35.NotificationSettings 36. Notifications 37. Password 38.PhoneNumbers 39. Photos 40.PhysicalTokens 41. Pokes 42. Political Views

43. Privacy Settings 44. Profile Blurb 45.RealtimeActivities 46.RecentActivities 47.RegistrationDate 48. Relationship 49. Religious Views 50.RemovedFriends 51. Screen Names 52. Shares 53. Status Updates 54. Vanity 55. Wallposts 56. Website 57. Work

Original Files. These are some excerpts and altered versions of the original files we got from facebook. Because of privacy concerns all personal information was edited out, some files were altered in order to make editing easier. initials and userID date original file blackened excerpt blackened file L.B. (747***) 2011-06-07 PDF (780 pages, 34 MB) PDF (7,7 MB) P.E. (129***) 2011-06-07 PDF (1.142 pages, 165 MB) PDF (138 KB) M.S. (509***) 2011-06-09 PDF (18 pages, 56 KB) PDF (95 KB) M.S. (509***) 2011-07-11 PDF (1.222 pages, 496 MB) PDF (11 MB) “Removed” content that was still held by Facebook PDF (185 KB)

List of all data sets.   Target. Shows the user’s ID number and the date of generation. Example: 1234567890 (Generated 2011-07-11 19:06:24 UTC)   Date Range. Shows the date of generation again. Example: Creation to 2011-07-11 19:06:24 UTC   About Me. Shows the text the user typed into the “about me” section.   Account End Date. This very likely saves the date that an account is scheduled for deletion.  Note: Facebook does not delete accounts right away. If a user ‘requests’ it, the account is first deactivated and is then deleted after a 14 day period.   Account Status History. Logs all activations/deactivations of an account, including date and time.  Note: This activation/deactivation information is kept even though it is not necessary after the account was reactivated. Example: ... Time     2010-07-04 06:49:35 UTC Status     deactivated ...   Address. This shows the address that the user typed into his/her profile. It is unclear if and where information is saved that facebook gathered about the user from other users (e.g. when they “sync” the address of a user from the iPhone) Example: Street     Muserstraße 1 City     Wien State     Vienna Zip     1234 Country     AT   Alternate Name. Gives back the alternative name you can type in (e.g. if you got married or if you have a name in a non-latin script) Example: Alternate Name     Max Mustermann   Applications. This set of data lists all applications a user has installed.  Note: If your friend is using an application, this application can not only access his/her information, but also yours. You have to deactivate the whole “platform” functionality to prevent this. Example: ... YouTube (87741124305) ...   Chat. This section showed some old chat conversations. All data was rather recent, which means that chat messages were deleted sooner or later. It is unclear if this section is still existing after facebook recently merged its chat and messaging function into one, but seems if all chat messages are now following the rules of normal messages.  Note: According to facebook’s privacy policy messages will never be deleted. Example: ... Author     Max Mustermann (123456789) Recipients     Petra Musterfrau (987654321) Sent     2011-06-06 19:05:56 UTC Body     Hey, do you want to stay at my place tonight? ...   Checkins. This category lists all places a user has checked in. The data set consists out of a page (e.g. of some company) the author, other tagged users, personal messages and an exact latitude, longitude and altitude. In addition facebook gives every checkin an individual ID number and an exact time stamp.  Note: These check-ins can only be deleted manually on the wall of the user, otherwise they are saved forever. Example:... Page    B72 (1237939396779779) Author     Max Mustermann (123456789) Tags     Subject Id     987654321             Subject Name     Petra Musterfrau             Creator Id     123456789 Id     12345678901234567890 Time     2011-06-07 22:32:49 UTC Message     Yeeehaaa Max lllloooooovvvveeessss Petra (and B72 in Vienna)! Latitude     52.534259455465 Longitude     13-435510035703 Altitude     40.343803405762 ...   Connections. This section lists all connections to pages that the user “likes”. This can be highly relevant for advertisement targeting. These connections often consists out of rather sensitive information . Example: ... Uni Wien (110530002309006) H&M (21415640912) Atomkraft? Nein Danke! (177377935660)  [German: Atomic Engery? No, Thanks!] Kein Facebook für Nazis - NPD Seite löschen! (120727301285953)  [German: No Facebook for Nazis - Delete the NPD’s page] ...   Credit Cards. If you have purchased facebook credits you will find you credit card information here.  Note: This information (and your password) is the only encrypted information, according to the privacy policy of facebook.   Currency. Shows the local currency of the user. Example: EUR   Current City. Shows the setting for the city the user is currently living in, including some ID number for the city. Very relevant for personalized advertisement. Example: Vienna, Austria (111165112241092)   Date of Birth. Shows the birth date of the user. This in a required field when signing up for facebook and is one of the most important information for targeting individual groups of consumers. Example: 08/04/1986   Education. This set of information is a list of all educational institutions a user has been to. Example: ... Id     110530002309006 Name     Uni Wien Type     College Year     2013 ...   E-Mails. Here you will find a list of all e-mails addresses facebook linked to the user.  Note: There may be more than the e-mails you submitted to facebook (e.g. if another user imported more e-mails that belong to you). Examplee: max.mustermann@aon.at a06123456@unet.univie.ac.at max.mustermann@lastjob.com max.mustermann@youremployer.com  ...    Events. This shows a (long) list of all ‘events’ you have ever been invited to, including all invitations you have not reacted to or rejected. Of course you have to do this manually for every event. The options for the field RSVP are “attending”, “maybe”, “declined” and “noreply”.  Note: In many countries political or other sensitive gatherings are organized using this function. Only if you “remove” the event by clicking on a little link on the bottom of the page the event will be deleted. Examplee: ... Id 38574662881 Name HOSI Fest Salzburg     [German: Party of the homosexual initiative of Salzburg] Location Neue Arge Nonntal Start 2008-12-21 06:00:00 UTC End 2008-12-21 12:00:00 UTC Rsvp maybe Id 124023171009380 Name Kurz als Integrationsstaatssekretr? - NEIN DANKE!!   [German: Demonstration against a new state secretary] Location FACEBOOK Start 2011-04-19 17:00:00 UTC End 2011-04-30 07:00:00 UTC Rsvp noreply ...   Family. In this sections all family members and the kind of relation is saved, if the user entered them.   Favorite Quotes. Here you will find the ‘favorite quote’ the user entered. Example: Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks (Mark Zuckerberg)    Friend Requests. A list of all friend requests you ever got. Besides the sender, recipient and the time, facebook is also storing if you rejected it or not.  Note: Even after you rejected the request it will not be deleted and will be stored forever. Example: Sender     Peter Unfreundlich (1122334455) Recipient     Max Mustermann (123456789) Rejected      true Time      2008-08-25 06:50:56 UTC   Friends. Here facebook is listing all your friends including their ID number.  Note: It is very likely that facebook is also storing some indicators that show e.g. how intense a relationship is. So far facebook has not disclosed this information. If you remove a friend he/she will be listed in the section “removed friends”. Example: ... Petra Musterfrau (987654321) Hans Mustermann (9988776655) Holger Deutschmann (33558899) John Smith (2288668844) ...   Gender. Lists the gender of every user (required field). This is one of the most important criteria for targeted advertisements.   Groups. Shows all the groups you are a member of, including the ID number of every group.  Note: Many groups indicate your religious or political beliefs. Examplee: ... Piratenpartei Deutschland (19095902528)     [German: Group of the German ‘Pirate Party’] JEDE/R SOLL HEIRATEN DÜRFEN (91860232222)     [German: Group for same sex marriage] ...   Hometown. Shows your home town including an ID number (see also: ‘current city’) Example: Vienna, Austria (111165112241092)   Last Location. Shows the last location that facebook got from you. It is unclear how facebook is gathering this information. They might be a mixture of  check-ins, data gathered from apps (e.g. on the iPhone), pictures that are geo-tagged, events you have visited, or the location of the last used IP address. Example: Time     2011-04-16 18:51:27 UTC Latitude     37.34688913 Longitude     121.94080227 Altitude     0 Accuracy     675 Altitude Accuracy    -1 Heading     -1 Speed    -1   Linked Accounts. It is very likely that here you would find information about accounts (e.g. twitter, youtube or skype) that have been linked to your facebook account. This field was empty in all sets of data we got.   Locale. Shows your language settings on facebook. Basic criteria for advertising. Examplee: de_DE en_US   Logins. Shows a (long) list of all your log ins. There is one set of data generated every time you log on to facebook. It is unclear how long the information is saved, but it seems as if it is deleted sooner or later. Besides the IP address and a time stamp facebook is also logging the form of access.  Note: With this set of information IP addresses are no longer anonymous for facebook.  Examplee: ... Ip     178.190.001.001 Time     2011-06-27 17:41:16 UTC Site     WWW Ip     46.207.001.001 Time     2011-06-27 15:58:46 UTC Site     JABBER   Machines. Facebook is placing a cookie on every computer that connects to it. A cookie is a ‘tag’ with a specific number that facebook can read every time you connect with them. Besides tracking, facebook is also using this information in order to match users and computers. By doing so, they get a list of every computer that someone has logged onto facebook and all users that have used this computer. In the field ‘seen count’ the number of visits of ever user is saved, this enables facebook to estimate who is the main user of a computer.  Note: If cookies are deactivated, facebook will generate another machine every time you visit facebook. Example: Associated Users     Max Mustermann (123456789)                                 Petra Musterfrau (987654321)                                 Sarah Roommate (555666777888)                                 Klaus Friend (333444555666)                                 Patrick Ex-Boyfriend (111222333000) Cookie     dTfdTOTPuniqSHGJEKAAB9Qdqj First Seen     2010-11-12 12:47:49 UTC Seen Count     50  Associated Users     Petra Muserfrau (987654321)                                 Lara Musterfrau (229966778800)                                 Max Mustermann (123456789) Cookie      mPOATShSJEKGEKSMEL3ALu8 First Seen      2011-03-16 17:30:00 UTC Seen Count     143   Messages. Displays all messages you have ever sent or received on facebook. It seems that this is now including chat messages as well, since facebook merged both functions.  This set of information is usually one of the longest sets and very private (communication privacy).  Note: According to facebook’s privacy policy, messages on facebook can not be deleted anymore. If you click on ‘delete’ the messages will only be invisible to you. US law enforcement agencies can access this information at there own liking, without judicial review. Example: Id       12345678901234567890 Subject      Last night Folders      [fb]messages, [fb]sent, [fb] deleted Deleted      true Recipients     Max Mustermann (123456789)                      Peter Freund (2266770044) Author     Peter Freund (2266770044) Sent     2008-06-05 17:09:31 UTC Body    I keep thinking of you permanently since last night. ;-) When can we see each other again? Kiss, Peter Author     Max Musermann (123456789) Sent     2008-06-05 17:22:14 UTC Body     Sorry Peter, but I was drinking too much last night.. yesterday was a big mistake!              I am really not gay. Please do not tell Susi about what happened yesterday night!     Minifeed. This lists all messages that facebook is posting automatically on your wall.  This information is not removed, so you will have to delete every post manually form your wall. Examplee: Time 2011-04-14 22:42:09 UTC Story Max Mustermann commented on Petra Musterfrau's link. Time 2010-03-16 20:47:18 UTC Story Max Mustermann commented on Klaus Mitbewohner's status. Time 2009-01-14 22:58:56 UTC Story Max Mustermann likes Ignoring Application Requests.   Name. Shows the current name of the user.  Note: According to facebook’s terms you are breaching the contract with them, if you are not providing your real name. Examplee: First     Max Middle  Last     Mustermann     Name Changes. Facebook is listing all name changes, including all former names you have used. Example: Time 2010-03-19 11:48:50 UTC Old Name Max Mustermann New Name Max NonOfFacebooksBusiness Time 2010-06-17 22:10:35 UTC Old Name Max NonOfFacebooksBusiness New Name Маю Мустерманн Time 2010-10-29 08:59:36 UTC Old Name Маю Мустерманн New Name Max Mustermann     Networks. Gives back all the networks you are a member of. This information used to be one of the most important to limit the information others could see, before facebook changed its privacy settings. Example: Uni Wien (16780574)     Notes. Shows all the notes you have posted on facebook. Besides the title, text and time stamps there might be tags of other users as well. Example: Titel     Facebook is worse than the communists Link     notes/max-mustermann/facebook-is-worse-than-the-comunists/123456789987654321 Changed    2011-07-07 18:56:34 UTC Updated    2011-07-07 20:09:56 UTC Tags     Max Mustermann (123456789)             Peter Mitbewohner (7766229900) Text    Hey everybody, I have now checked out on europe-v-facebook.org how much information facebook is holding about me. i am from eastern Germany, so I remember my parent’s stories about the communist regime. But facebook is now holding much more informations than the communists ever had and all of it is saved within the US, a country with no sufficient privacy laws!  I will...     Notification Settings. Lists all settings for notifications from facebook and all apps the user has activated. Example: ... Category   Facebook Notification     Sends you a message Email     false Mobile Email     false SMS     true ...     Notifications. Theses are the notifications you will see when there is the red icon on the top bar of facebook’s main page. Example: ... Time     2011-08-01 18:00:56 Unread     false Href:    www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=123456789123456789123456789 ...    Password. An encrypted version of your password. Example: Hash    SHAJEUSLwheAE21762SHENSE728HSJE Last Change    2008-07-05  18:45:34 UTC   Phone Numbers. All the phone numbers you have entered on your facebook page. Note: Facebook is also saving phone numbers that other users have uploaded (e.g. when syncing their phone) it is unclear where they are saved.   Photos. In this section you will find all pictures you have uploaded to facebook. This is often one of the longest categories. Besides the picture facebook is often saving much additional information, such as tagged people, the IP address of the person uploading the picture, detailed information and the precise location where the picture was taken. Note: If you “untag” your picture the information will only be “deactivated”, but not deleted. If you do not want facebook to use all the information stored in the picture’s metadata, they tell you to edit this information out before you upload it. Example: Album    Mobile Uploads Image    [Fofo-Datei] Titel    Picture of Max, Perta and Kurt Photo   http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/123_123_123_123_123_n.jpg Link     http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=123456789&set=a.123.123.123&type=1 Upload Ip     123.123.123.123 Uploaded     2009-04-10  13:06:43 UTC Tags               Subject Id     123456789                       Subject Name     Max Mustermann                       Creator Id     123456789                       Created     2009-04-10 17:25:23                       X      51                       Y      23                       Subject Id     987654321                       Subject Name     Petra Muserfrau                       Creator Id     123456789                       Created     2009-04-10 17:25:26                       X      51                       Y      23                       Subject Id     778800445533                       Subject Name     Kurt Schön                       Creator Id     123456789                       Created     2009-04-10 17:25:41                       X      51                       Y      23 Comments     User     Max Mustermann (123456789)                      Text      I love this pic!                      Time     2009-04-10 17:28:10 UTC                      User     Kurz Schön (778800445533)                      Text      I am looking great in this photo!                      Time     2009-04-10 17:28:10 UTC Taken     2009-04-10  11:03:46 UTC Modified     1234567890 Camera Make     Apple Camera Model     iPhone 3GS Orientation    1 Original Width    0 Original Height     0 Exposure     Fstop   Iso Speed     0 Focal Lenght     Latitude     48.123456789012 Longitude     16.3655   Physical Tokens. This field was empty in all sets of data we got. It might be a future feature for secure identification (see wikipedia).   Pokes. Lists all ‘pokes’ you have ever sent or received.  Note: If you remove a poke, it is in fact just invisible for you. Facebook is never deleting pokes. Exampledaten: ... To      Max Mustermann (123456789) From      Petra Musterfrau (987654321) Time     011-06-23 07:49:16 UTC Viewed     true ...     Political Views. Here you will find all the information about your political views you entered.   Privacy Settings. Lists all your privacy settings.  Note: You can only limit what other people can view, but facebook will always see and use all information it gathered from you. Example: Name ABOUT_ME Value Only Me Name BIRTHDAY Value Only Me Name BLURB Value Only Me Name CAN_COMMENT Value Friends Only Name CAN_FRIEND Value Everyone Name CAN_MESSAGE Value Everyone Name CURRENT_ADDRESS Value Friends Only ...    Profile Blurb. Shows the headline you have entered. This field was empty in all sets of information we got.   Realtime Activities. Shows some of the tracking facebook is doing on its own page. This set of information was only sent to us with one access request, while it was was missing at the others. Example:Time 2011-07-11 13:32:16 UTC Ip 123.123.123.123 Action message_compose Target 123456789 Metadata {"0":"hey petra,\\n\\do you want to go out with me this week? \\nCU,\\nmax"} Time 2011-07-11 17:59:58 UTC Ip 123.123.123.123 Action login_bruteforce_protection_delta_not_vetted Time 2011-07-11 18:03:06 UTC Ip 123.123.123.123 Action message_compose Target 0 Time 2011-06-14 11:44:21 UTC Ip 123.123.123.123 Action share_url Time 2011-07-10 13:10:28 UTC Ip 123.123.123.123 Action login_attempt Metadata {"0":"max.mustermannn@aon.at"} Time 2011-07-10 10:37:21 UTC Ip 123.123.123.123 Action si_feedback_wall_post_delete Target 0 Metadata {"0":"remove_content", "1":"1", "2":"20", "3":""}   Recent Activities. Shows all the log-ins on facebook. Facebook is saving all IP addresses and cookie information as well as information about locations and time. The information is deleted sooner or later. Example: Ip     123.123.123.123 Time     2011-07-11 19:02:14 UTC Type     Login Datr     tkgbTkzc2HAEJELALEHENSke1234 Delta     Status NS_SUCCESSFUL_VETTED Site     WWW City     vienna Region     9 Country     AT User     Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)   Registration Date. Time stamp showing the date and time you signed up. Example: 2008-01-04  14:09:31 UTC   Relationship. Information about the user’s partner. Information about family members is stored with the set “family information” Example: SINGLE   Religious Views. Shows the information you entered about your religious beliefs.   Removed Friends. Lists all the friends you have unfriended the once that unfriended you.  Note: Facebook is not deleting former relationships. Facebook keeps them in an individual data set. Example: ... User     Peter Freund (2266770044) Time     2008-06-05 23:54:03 UTC Removed By     2266770044 ...   Screen Names. Shows your screen names of instant messaging services. Example: maxmustermann (skype)   Shares. Shows all the links a user posted on his/her wall. The information has to be deleted form the wall individually.  Note: The data sets we got from facebook included random posts that were deleted by the user. Example: Created     2011-01-04 14:23:01 UTC Link     http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=123456789&id=1234567890 Summary     Text     Comedy becomes really great, when there is a bit of truth in it... Title     Facebook is run by CIA !!! Url     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAq6QFt8sXU ... Created     2011-01-24 17:08:04 UTC Link     http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=123456789&id=1234567890 Summary     Text     *lol* very likely the only way of getting some privacy on facebook ;-) Title     Facebook Pricavy: A New Approach Url     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1b7nuo55k8   Status Updates. Shows all content a user has posted on his/her own wall.  Note: The data sets we got from facebook included random posts that were deleted by the user. Example: Posted      2011-05-26 21:01:13 UTC Status      Just had a great Wiener Schnitzel! Mobile     Comments     User      Peter Normal (9922663388)                       Text      ...please let us know when it comes back out!                       Time      2011-05-26 21:20:14 UTC                       User      Susi Normal (22299004477)                       Text      *yay* for @[9922663388:Peter Normal]! ;-)                                    This is the most irrelevant post of the week!                       Time      2011-05-26 21:21:39 UTC    Vanity. Shows the nickname a user has selected. Example: maxmustermann   Wallposts. This lists all postings of other users on your wall.  Note: The data sets we got from facebook included random posts that were deleted by the user. If you post content on another user’s wall, the content will be treated according to the other users privacy settings. This means that they might be visible for everyone on the internet! Example: To     Max Mustermann (123456789) From     Peter Normal (9922663388) Time      2011-03-14 22:01:13 UTC Text      Hey, do you want to come along to that [great band]! Comments     User      Max Mustermann (123456789)                       Text      how much is the ticket?                       Time      2011-03-15 22:20:14 UTC                       User      Peter Normal (9922663388)                       Text      just 10 bucks, much cheaper than that [stupid band]                       Time      2011-05-26 21:21:39 UTC     Website. Shows the URL of the webpage a user might have entered.   Work. Shows information about employers. This information was not filled out by any of our test users.