So I have not been using Facebook for almost a year now and in that time I expected that I was totally removed from the tentacles of the evil overlord. Well today in preparation for getting rid of my old android phone I logged on to change some settings. Whilst navigating around the settings I came across something called off-Facebook activity

Now to be clear I do not use my Facebook account details to log into ANY sites. I always register with my personal email and the email addresses I use are new and have never been associated with Facebook. I was shocked to see that almost every website I had recently visited was sending information to Facebook. Let that sink in for a moment, every website that was never associated to my Facebook account sharing my info with Facebook even when the login address I used is different to my Facebook gmail. That’s something that I personally find very very concerning.  I immediately cleared all historical data and turned off the off-Facebook setting.  I suggest that you do the same.