‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially
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‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially
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#2Infected people helped spread the coronavirus
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#3Paywalled so I'll just barf my opinion about my feelings on that feature. I get recommended the most random people who are friends-of-friends I've never met. There have been so many bad suggestions that I assume they're all wrong.
I guess everyone else had the complete opposite experience based on the article title
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#4Infected people helped spread the coronavirus
Infected People You May Know, got you infected.
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#5> A sex worker found Facebook recommending her clients, who did not know her true identity. A sperm donor got a suggestion for the biological child he never met. A psychiatrist learned that Facebook was recommending that some of her patients friend each other on the service.
It is amazing how little pieces of information that are likely innocuous by themselves can be combined to develop a pretty thorough understanding of relationships.
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#6They kept sending me "do you know [person I probably don't know]" as notifications on my phone! This was the last straw that made me delete the app and my account entirely a few years ago.
One of the big annoyances in life is being notified or bugged about something I don't need to be notified about. This keeps getting worse with modern tech all the time which has slowly led me to stop using anything I don't have full control over.
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#7> A sex worker found Facebook recommending her clients, who did not know her true identity. A sperm donor got a suggestion for the biological child he never met. A psychiatrist learned that Facebook was recommending that some of her patients friend each other on the service. It is amazing how little pieces of information that are likely innocuous by themselves can be combined to develop a pretty thorough understandin…
But we don't know if these are false positives. The connection between all those examples doesn't have to be the suggested link. E.g. the patients could be suggested because they have a common friend.
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#8> A sex worker found Facebook recommending her clients, who did not know her true identity. A sperm donor got a suggestion for the biological child he never met. A psychiatrist learned that Facebook was recommending that some of her patients friend each other on the service. It is amazing how little pieces of information that are likely innocuous by themselves can be combined to develop a pretty thorough understandin…
The first and last must just be geolocation based, right? Like, these two people are in a room together every X day for Y hours... they probably know each other.
The sperm donor guy, though... facial recognition? No idea.
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#9This quote from Zuckerberg is something else:
> “We don’t view your experience with the product as a single-player game,” he says. Yes, in the short run, some users might benefit more than others from PYMK friending. But, he contends, all users will benefit if everyone they know winds up on Facebook. We should think of PYMK as kind of a “community tax policy,” he says. Or a redistribution of wealth. “If you’re ramped up and having a good life, then you’re going to pay a little bit more in order to make sure that everyone else in the community can get ramped up. I actually think that that approach to building a community is part of why [we have] succeeded and is modeled in a lot of aspects of our society.”
This attitude of "we know what's good for you" is apparent in more and more modern tech products. I find it pretty gross, especially when applied personal data. It's also a convenient after-the-fact moral justification for decisions that improve the bottom line of the company at the expense of its users.
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#10> A sex worker found Facebook recommending her clients, who did not know her true identity. A sperm donor got a suggestion for the biological child he never met. A psychiatrist learned that Facebook was recommending that some of her patients friend each other on the service. It is amazing how little pieces of information that are likely innocuous by themselves can be combined to develop a pretty thorough understandin…
The first and last must just be geolocation based, right? Like, these two people are in a room together every X day for Y hours... they probably know each other. The sperm donor guy, though... facial recognition? No idea.
More likely adress book / phone contacts import.