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Exactly, if your kid has an account, and she identified her mom, facebook will think her mom is your wife if at the same address. Those connections start to add up, add in they copied linkedin, your phone address books, email accounts, etc.


To me, the answer is noise.

Generate so much false data about yourself that you both overwhelm and devalue this mechanism entirely.


I try to do this and it _seems_ to be working okay. Facebook has not given me a correct/interesting recommendation in ages and google thinks I'm a different age and various other things that are not true when I look at their collected information.


Cause an infinite loop CPU explodes by making data that leads to you being your own grandfather.




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