Tag: Facebook
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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…
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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,…
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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…