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The searches depicted are more telling about the person making the search rather than the supposed "victims". Nothing to see here, unless you buy into stereotypical fearmongering or are "shocked" that humans are human.
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How should I know?
You could watch The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski.
If anyone is wondering on the subject matter, it plots of the ascent of man not in terms of biological evolution but cultural evolution - which seems to me to be an oft overlooked facet of how we came to be.
Apple Inc Employees Who Like Android: https://www.facebook.com/search/103818329656399/likers/13794... People who like Barack Obama and Mitt Romney: https://www.facebook.com/search/6815841748/likers/2139280112... People who like MPAA and The Pirate Bay: https://www.facebook.com/search/108476252505746/likers/11101...
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I appreciate the information, but this misses the point. Facebook hides privacy settings because privacy is bad for their business objectives, and most people will never bother to dig for these settings, leaving them open to the kinds of attacks demonstrated by the original post.
> Facebook hides privacy settings I have a direct link to privacy settings in the header. I don't know how can they make it more visible.
I dare you.
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Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"; it will always lead to situations like that which are, at best, embarrassing, and at worst, dangerous, for whoever is in the system. What does this even mean? The "dumb algorithm" here will (a) take a user's query and (b) search that user's friends and public profiles for hits on that query. What's ne…
> If you don't like it, then quit. Assuming you're socially allowed to quit Facebook.
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So you're a fan of data, that's fair enough. Who isn't a fan of data? The issue is, who owns and controls that data? You, the true owner and source of the data, or some big advertising-driven tech giant with it's own crappy hollywood movie? Not only that, but in order to make money from advertising, they link all this wonderful data (your data) with advertiser interests. Much of this linking is done under the radar,…
What, in your opinion, would be an appropriate platform?
The thing is, Facebook could be better by allowing members to invite outside data to flow into their feeds from chosen sources, and providing more freedom with data-exchange in general. Enforced segregation is costly.
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Just did the same. I've had enough of being used.
You realize graph search only utilizes information that YOU make available. Why did you make that data available? Do you not want others to see it? If you didn't, then why did you put it out there for others to see? Also, you know that privacy controls are taken into account right? So if you don't make certain data available to certain people, you don't show up in searches for those people.... I think you're being a…
This graph search is just the last straw. It is terrifying the repercussions this search engine could have, and I believe this blog post shows some great examples.
Short term this may be a problem, but long term it's probably a good thing. Hopefully once people become aware of what they're exposing they'll become more cautious. Complaining about News Feed and Graph Search is basically saying you're ok with "security through obscurity". If I understand correctly, all of this information is already available to those who want to dig deep enough.
While it's (probably) true that the information is already available, it's not easily available. If it's going to take me 25 days of tedious profile reading to find people who I seek (e.g. "Lesbian women from Greece who like Doritos"), I'm not going to do it. It's not practically available. Graph Search changes that. Obscurity vanishes, along with any security it provided.
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> If you don't like it, then quit. Assuming you're socially allowed to quit Facebook.
Quitting Facebook is really not that big of a deal. You won't become a social pariah, an outcast or loose all your friends because you cancel a website account.
Of course FB is trying to destroy this as much as possible by controlling what you see of what people post. Trying to decide what's important to me is another facet of the 'dumb' algorithms the OP complains about.