
the 'good' book
Just went on at a midnite surf, and findout that Zuckerberg (the facebook guy, FYI) has mentioned privately that he has enough information on users to tell if their relationship is going to end or who’s going to be in a relationship in a week from now. Holy shamoos…and how in the world would Mr. Zuckerberg knew that.
This is what fudzilla got to say about zuckerberg’s out of the box thoughts on users privacy:
Well, According David Kirkpatrick’s soon to be released book, “The Facebook Effect“, Kirkpatrick confirms that relationship patterns were something that Mark Zuckerberg often toyed with. In the book, Kirkpatrick writes that as the service’s engineers built more and more tools that could uncover such insights, Zuckerberg conducted 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. Indicators included if you were chatting with another girl instead of your girlfriend? Are you being tagged in a lot of photos with the same person?
Since Facebook has a lot of information about who you are viewing regularly as well as what your communication patterns are it is possible to determining the future of your relationship. In otherwords they are actively monitoring your behavior on the site to determine what should be displayed in the feed. Maybe soon we will get notifications that your relationship is on the rocks. - fudzilla
33 percent accuracy is freaking nuts, I mean zuckerberg could tell that someone else in some country -god knows where, that he had troubles on his relationship with a 33 percent chance of being right, that is just sick man! even your own mom wouldn’t have that fat chance on guessing the outcome of your relationship.
Well, I’m not saying that Facebook is an evil instrument and Zuckerberg is using them to build an evil empire, that’s just ridiculous - Heck, I’m still using facebook now. I’m just saying that the more crap you put in social notworking sites, the more you exposed yourself, means the more data those guys get, and trust me, that is not good at all.
Don’t go drastic and stop using the net, just pay attention to those things you posted in facebook, the profiles you’re loooking, and pretty much everything you do in facebook. Besides, in my opinion, looking from how things are now, it is at least five more years, until facebook had enough data to screw us up. Within the next several years, they will have more field for you to fill in your profile, more status update, some location based features (I think Facebook is developing one. btw, Indonesian social notworking sites already using this feature - koprol.com - if my memory serves me right) thus providing the sites with more data, then the 33 % odds will rise up, heck, I think within five years facebook will even know that you’re out of tootbrush in the next week (then sending you a toothbrush ads).
For better or for worse, be it for a modern day anthropologist or for more targeted marketing the data is there and ready to be used -socialemotions.blogspot.com
Amen to that brother! Well, gotta stop stalking through facebook profiles then.
ps. google, actually kinda scare me lately. Did you know that if you logged in to gmail and conduct search using google, google would know what *put gmail username here* is looking for *put porn fetish term here*. And did you know that upon release, google chrome was accused for it’s little feature of feeding ’sensitive’ information to the server (google would then ‘correct’ this feature).
some other stuff:
fudzilla; socialemoticons; kompas
social not working part I, part II