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Tag: Facebook

  • Permanent Record

    Thanks to the internet, everything's going on my permanent record. — Brent Logan (@blogan) October 10, 2018 Update. I added the following as a comment, but am pulling it up for those that might not see it otherwise: Want to freak yourself out? I'm gonna show just how much of your information the likes of…

  • What was Facebook thinking?

    What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking? This is the best article I’ve read on the amount and type of information any Facebook application could get: Your name. Your location. All your friends. Your family. Your work history. Your schooling. Your birthday. Your checkins. Your events. Your hometown. Your likes, photos. Your relationships. Your religion and…

  • What did we learn new about Facebook?

    I’m feeling a little stupid right now. Maybe a little history is in order. We’ve known since 2014, back when Five Labs used our Facebook posts to analyze personality, that when we shared our data with an app on Facebook, the app’s publisher gets our friends’ data, too. It should have been obvious more than…

  • My Facebook experiment, an update

    My Facebook experiment, an update

    More than two years ago, I started an experiment with Facebook: I hide the sources I don’t want to see anymore. I started with the Buzzfeed quizzes, then moved on to the radio stations and their silly news stories. I hid the parody sites, the viral meme sites, the sports teams’ sites. But I kept…

  • My Facebook Experiment

    I love my friends on Facebook. I love your status updates. I love the pictures you take. The more, the better. When you post to Instagram and share it on Facebook too, that’s really cool. If you write a clever tweet, I want to see it. If you write a blog post and share a…

  • My Five Labs Personality Analysis Using Facebook

    My Five Labs Personality Analysis Using Facebook

    Five Labs characterized my personality by analyzing the words in my Facebook posts: Brent is restless, inventive, and reserved. If that’s all it did, Five Lab’s analysis would be interesting. However, what makes it cool is Five Labs showing me which of my friends’ and selected public figures’ personalities are closest to mine. Turns out,…

  • Friends’ Friends

    Friends’ Friends

    MIT Technology Review mentioned the Friendship Paradox, in which, due to outliers and “the topology of networks,” your friends on average have more friends than you do. The article goes on to suggest that your friends probably are more wealthy and happy, too. I was curious to see how my Facebook friends’ friend counts measured…

  • W|A Personal Analytics of My Facebook Friends

    WolframAlpha has analyzed the personal analytics of those who donated their Facebook data to W|A. Today, they posted some of the results on their blog. Curious to see how I compare, here are a selected few results from my analytics. Friend Clusters My friend cluster shows five tight clusters for: High school Family College Church…

  • If it’s on the Internet…

    If it’s on the Internet…

    A reminder to my friends on Facebook. Image credit: “If it’s on the internet, it isn’t private” by DonkeyHotey. Used under a Creative Commons license.