Actual Facebook Graph Searches

Post by corporalagumbo » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 4:11 AM UTC

psbp wrote: post #60

corporalagumbo wrote: post #45

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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.

Post by corporalagumbo » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 4:13 AM UTC

lhnn wrote: post #63

corporalagumbo wrote: post #24

Maybe this seems horrible right now, but Facebook didn't create these problems and contradictions, it just exposed them uncomfortably. I expect that the eventual abuses springing from this exposure will spur a counterreaction, hopefully with net-positive results. After all, what's the most meaningful take-away from this? Is it that Facebook is endangering individuals? Not really. Powerful, global social search tools…

> And lots of people have embarrassing and/or contradictory and/or naive views and tastes. That they should be keeping off the Internet.

Post by maaku » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 4:13 AM UTC

angersock wrote: post #65

Well, the consumers wanted it, right? Props to giving the people what they want! (also for having such wonderful inventory management!)

Post by veb » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 4:21 AM UTC

miw-sec-work wrote: post #26

If this isn't a good enough reason to GET THE HELL OFF FACEBOOK then you wont be convinced otherwise. GET THE HELL OFF FACEBOOK!

Post by psbp » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 4:24 AM UTC

corporalagumbo wrote: post #72

psbp wrote: post #60

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

My little brother and sister had it from 11 and 12 respectively. Yes, it's quite interesting to think about. Anyway, what's your point? By the way, you're discussing this with someone who believes that in the future we will record and utilise orders of magnitude more amount of data about our lives and our planet than we do now, enough to make your eyes water, and furthermore, that we are inexorably fated to do so, an…