Facebook Frolics, Facebook Is Weird and Creepy Dept. 0

My friend went to a travel website to investigate flights to Europe.

Upon connecting, she was presented with a message that said, “Welcome back, [name], thanks for visiting.”

She said, “I’ve never been here before” (and a few other things).

I looked up from editing the pictures in the previous post and saw that the site was displaying her Facebook profile picture. Clearly, the site was reading one of those long-term Facebook stalker cookies.

You know, really, this is not right. It is corporate cyber-stalking. It is evil.

I asked, “When you were on Facebook, did you log out or just close the window?”

“I just closed the window.”

She opened Facebook; she was still logged in. “Where,” she asked, “do I log out?”

I said, “They keep moving it around to make it difficult to find. I think it’s here . . . .” We found it and logged her out.

Then I showed her how to delete cookies and set her browser to delete all cookies on exit.