Facebook know’s who you’ll be having sex with soon
May 20th, 2010 • Uncategorized
From Gawker.com:
As the service’s engineers built more and more tools that could uncover such insights, Zuckerberg sometimes amused himself by conducting experiments. For instance, he concluded that by examining friend relationships and communications patterns he could determine with about 33 percent accuracy who a user was going to be in a relationship with a week from now. To deduce this he studied who was looking which profiles, who your friends were friends with, and who was newly single, among other indicators.
One of my friends has a theory on Facebook. When someone that’s not your friend checks out your profile, facebook suggests you become friends with them. Her suggestion? Careful who you stalk.
The article raises some interesting questions though, about targeted ads, etc. Facebook is just getting creepier and creepier.
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