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Re: Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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Post by brianchu »

Contrary to what a lot of people think, you can change the visibility of likes. This affects Graph Search, Timeline visibility, and also page visibility (I've personally tested these). The Admins of pages you like will still be able to see that you like their page.

Go to the Likes page on your timeline. Click the Edit button in the upper right. Privacy visibility buttons will pop up next to each Like category for you to change the visibility of Likes. Make sure to scroll down to the bottom so you don't miss the last category "Other Pages You Like."

Yes, Facebook intentionally doesn't do a good job of advertising this. For me, though, I'm satisfied that the option is there (and that my option to stalk my friends is there as well).

Re: Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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Post by pyre »

corporalagumbo wrote: post #38
psbp wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This tool is part of a much larger machine that may actually affect society more than it serves it.

What exactly do you mean by that?

I assume something like:

The social implications (for good or ill) are greater than the immediate, personal benefits are (in aggregate).

Re: Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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Post by Apocryphon »

I see this as similar to those shady websites that scrape for personal information, then aggregate them. Not the shadiness, but the same principle of gathering information that has already been available, but now simply exposing it in one neat package. And it's very frightening. Can you imagine in a few years where scrapers can take this kind of logic and build databases of people's "online footprints" based on aliases they have used in the past by searching for references to emails they registered with, or mentioned in comments? Add textual analysis of their comments, and all bets are off.

Re: Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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Post by [deleted] »

psbp wrote: post #35
potatolicious wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"" These aren't algorithms. This is a search engine - what you put into it is up to you. It can be anywhere from the silliness seen in the link, to "friends who live in London" before you take a trip. This is just handing people another tool - the uses, and misuses, of said tool are entirely on the us…

This tool is part of a much larger machine that may actually affect society more than it serves it.

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Re: Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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Post by psbp »

corporalagumbo wrote: post #38
psbp wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This tool is part of a much larger machine that may actually affect society more than it serves it.

What exactly do you mean by that?

I think socialization under the umbrella of a facebook type environment will eventually create predictable and malleable identities which are inherently the consequence of a mix of various societal pressures which are in turn constricted through the lens of the facebook environment.

Combine that with facebook's transparent use of corporate cohabitation with people's relationships, and I think you quickly have a society which is much more determined and artificial.

Re: Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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Post by achompas »

Apocryphon wrote: post #53

I see this as similar to those shady websites that scrape for personal information, then aggregate them. Not the shadiness, but the same principle of gathering information that has already been available, but now simply exposing it in one neat package. And it's very frightening. Can you imagine in a few years where scrapers can take this kind of logic and build databases of people's "online footprints" based on alias…

Those "online footprint" type of websites already exist, and they're very popular with due diligence firms.

Re: Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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Post by [deleted] »

pyre wrote: post #46
potatolicious wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"" These aren't algorithms. This is a search engine - what you put into it is up to you. It can be anywhere from the silliness seen in the link, to "friends who live in London" before you take a trip. This is just handing people another tool - the uses, and misuses, of said tool are entirely on the us…

| This is just handing people another tool - the uses, | and misuses, of said tool are entirely on the users. The same applies to building hand-held nuclear weapons and handing them out on a street corner. The same could be said of convincing people to put CCTVs in their houses and then hooking them all up chatroullete-style. That doesn't mean that it's a good idea. | A snarky and mean-spirited stereotyping of all |…

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Re: Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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Post by incongruity »

batiudrami wrote: post #33
newman314 wrote: post #22

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Try an Amazon account which is shared with family members. Amazon thinks I like electronics, Hello Kitty and bows.

Well, that's hardly Amazon's fault, it is?

Never mind that one account used for shopping for a family is a fairly common use case...

Re: Actual Facebook Graph Searches

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Post by psbp »

corporalagumbo wrote: post #45
psbp wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think he's saying that at all. The insanity is trying to construct a platform that manifests a person's entire social life. I think there's a harsh combination of conflating business interests and disinterested, contrived people sorting that is potentially very, very bad.

I'm not sure I follow you. Right now, Facebook knows roughly this much about me: 1) All of the people I have legitimated as Friends. 2) Screeds and screeds of data about the quality of all my connections with those friends (have I hid them from my news-feed? how much do I interact with their posts? how much do I interact with them? talk to them? share with them? stalk them? how much time do I spend in interactions wi…

Do any of your family members under 12 have facebook? Imagine the aggregate of all their experiences in a decade or more.
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