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Show HN: Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?

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Re: Show HN: Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?

#31
post #21

Cool animations and simple idea. (Just a friendly reminder for everyone else: remember to delete the app from you Facebook. You can find it by the name you.me.we on Settings > App Settings)

Danke!

Is it possible for your app (or any) to offer to revoke it's own access after it's finished?

Re: Show HN: Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?

#32

> you.me.we. will receive the following info: your public profile, friend list and birthday and your friends' birthdays. Why would I give someone else's info to this application? I'm not even sure it's polite. P.S. The issue here is not that I need to give some information about myself, I can perhaps deal with that, the issue is that I'm giving information about my friends . It make me feel a bit like a snitch :-)

it is a questionaire about yourself and the app needs the data to create the questions. it is plain javascript with no backend attached to it. the data only gets sent back and forth between your browser and fb. none of your data ever gets stored on "my" server. hope this helps.

> the data only gets sent back and forth between your browser and fb

That's... actually a very interesting way to put it.

There should be a way to make a Facebook application that could guarantee it can't leak information to any other server.

Re: Show HN: Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?

#33
post #30

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yeah, i was on the verge about median age or average age... about the age error, i dont know why that happens. i calculate your age by year but that should still return 30 and validate to "right".

mine was wrong to. I am 34, my friends average 32.XX. I put younger and was told wrong.

sorry for asking, but just to rule one thing out, you did tell facebook your actual age, right?

Re: Show HN: Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?

#34

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R?

I'm new here. what does R mean?

A statistical programming language that makes heavy use of NaNs.

It's a lonely world, and whenever I see hints, I secretly hope the person is an R user.

Re: Show HN: Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?

#36
post #24

More appropriate title: "Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?" The answer: "Of course." All of these are random facts about my friends I wouldn't bother to commit to memory. It doesn't say anything about me

That's a fair suggestion and we changed the title accordingly.

Re: Show HN: Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it is a questionaire about yourself and the app needs the data to create the questions. it is plain javascript with no backend attached to it. the data only gets sent back and forth between your browser and fb. none of your data ever gets stored on "my" server. hope this helps.

> the data only gets sent back and forth between your browser and fb That's... actually a very interesting way to put it. There should be a way to make a Facebook application that could guarantee it can't leak information to any other server.

It can't be done. I could get the data from FB with javascript, and If I'm using it, I can sent it to my server with another request, so there is no way to block that.

Re: Show HN: Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?

#39

Holy shit, you're definitely going to have to explain that graphic at the end. I looked at it for over a minute and I've absolutely no idea what it's supposed to represent or even what kind of chart it is or what the axes are.

Yes, I'm sure a lot of work went into that graph, but it makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.

Re: Show HN: Does Facebook know your friends better than you do?

#40

Holy shit, you're definitely going to have to explain that graphic at the end. I looked at it for over a minute and I've absolutely no idea what it's supposed to represent or even what kind of chart it is or what the axes are.

did you look at it on desktop? on the phone i chose abbreviations which fall short (no pun intended). the idividual letters are the months. the white curve is total friends' birthdays over months, red and blue curves are male and female birthdays per month respecively. the lavenderish curve compares the number of males and female friends. and the bottom (strong blue) curve compares your age to the age of your friends.
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