No more Facebook quizzes for me!

[Sonny]

The Hidden Secrets of Online Quizzes

While Web quizzes may be fun to take, they're also a powerful tool for companies to collect your data and even your money -- and often in ways you might not notice. We'll get to the spooky stuff in a moment, but let's start with the simplest method of quiz-based marketing: advertising. The very nature of a typical online quiz requires you to divulge all sorts of details about yourself. Those tidbits of info are like nuggets of gold for advertisers craving a way to connect with you.

[BabyHopes]

I stopped taking facebook quizzes a long time ago. That little disclaimer asking me to "allow" them to suck up all my info and use it in advertising just icked me out.

[Daniel Bates]

They're also annoying for everyone else who gets their news feed flooded by "So and so took the quiz and the result was Ninja" stories.

[ka5txl]

Originally Posted by Daniel Bates

They're also annoying for everyone else who gets their news feed flooded by "So and so took the quiz and the result was Ninja" stories.

Our friends have no lives so they take online quiz's

[joedanger11]

it's not just the facebook quizzes... it's facebook in general. facebook exists purely as an advertising medium. their privacy statement is ridiculous.

[toverman]

I first noticed the quizzes offered years ago to bloggers, some of them on usual days ("Friday Five") because most people soon realize that their lives are way too boring to trumpet to the world via Internet. With Facebook quizzes, the boredom marches on ...

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