So I thought this was cool/interesting if a little bit creepy: I assume Facebook looks at profile pics and chooses photos for ads based on that... that's why so many ads I see have a picture of some scruffy homeless guy. I assume that it's really so it shows white people to white people etc. but check out what it did with Agnes:
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May 18, 2012 - 11:14am
I am "so over" FB and their relatively quick evolution to commercialism. I have a page so old friends can find me, but seldom post. Occasionally I will "like" someone's post.
Oh, and try deleting your account vs. deactivating or simply taking your page off the rolls and experience how FB "owns" what they know about you.
So I thought this was cool/interesting if a little bit creepy: I assume Facebook looks at profile pics and chooses photos for ads based on that... that's why so many ads I see have a picture of some scruffy homeless guy. I assume that it's really so it shows white people to white people etc. but check out what it did with Agnes:
So I thought this was cool/interesting if a little bit creepy: I assume Facebook looks at profile pics and chooses photos for ads based on that... that's why so many ads I see have a picture of some scruffy homeless guy. I assume that it's really so it shows white people to white people etc. but check out what it did with Agnes:
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Feb 1, 2012 - 7:40am
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
You can say no, and you can make it so that that person can't see anything you do. The suggested friends algorithm uses the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon formula... nothing too mysterious about it. Except when a suggestion comes up that you don't have any idea who they are, and they have their privacy locked down so tight you can't figure out how you know them...
I still think FB has some scary, but ingenious data mining algorithms. And try to escape!
You can say no, and you can make it so that that person can't see anything you do. The suggested friends algorithm uses the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon formula... nothing too mysterious about it. Except when a suggestion comes up that you don't have any idea who they are, and they have their privacy locked down so tight you can't figure out how you know them...
Kevin Bacon would not accept my friend request, does this make me safe?
I am thinking about deleting my FB account, not just deactivating it. That is difficult to do. FB writes amazing algorithms wriiten to "mine" information.
Recently FB suggested I friend a person with whom I have had no correspondence for over twenty years (and want none) and the only mention I am aware of for this person by me happened in an email reply. Scary. I wonder if that person was asked if they want to friend me?
You can say no, and you can make it so that that person can't see anything you do. The suggested friends algorithm uses the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon formula... nothing too mysterious about it. Except when a suggestion comes up that you don't have any idea who they are, and they have their privacy locked down so tight you can't figure out how you know them...
Indeed. I signed up years ago to allow a couple of lost friends find me. Mission accomplished. Now I want to disappear from FB—might not be possible, or minimum, very difficult. Google "delete Facebook" and read others' accounts of that goal. Ugly (but probably doable). Deactivating is easy, but merely deactivatig allows FB to keep collecting data.
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Feb 1, 2012 - 7:25am
oldviolin wrote:
No fb for me, Scott. investment or otherwise. I never trusted it, because I don't trust the morphing intents. I see the potential for the positive, but the other side is most formidable.
Indeed. I signed up years ago to allow a couple of lost friends find me. Mission accomplished. Now I want to disappear from FB—might not be possible, or minimum, very difficult. Google "delete Facebook" and read others' accounts of that goal. Ugly (but probably doable). Deactivating is easy, but merely deactivatig allows FB to keep collecting data.
I am thinking about deleting my FB account, not just deactivating it. That is difficult to do. FB writes amazing algorithms wriiten to "mine" information.
Recently FB suggested I friend a person with whom I have had no correspondence for over twenty years (and want none) and the only mention I am aware of for this person by me happened in an email reply. Scary. I wonder if that person was asked if they want to friend me?
Big Brother, with a harmless, let's all be friends, smile.
No fb for me, Scott. investment or otherwise. I never trusted it, because I don't trust the morphing intents. I see the potential for the positive, but the other side is most formidable.
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Feb 1, 2012 - 7:14am
oldviolin wrote:
Ima couple o bucks short...
I am thinking about deleting my FB account, not just deactivating it. That is difficult to do. FB writes amazing algorithms wriiten to "mine" information.
Recently FB suggested I friend a person with whom I have had no correspondence for over twenty years (and want none) and the only mention I am aware of for this person by me happened in an email reply. Scary. I wonder if that person was asked if they want to friend me?
Big Brother, with a harmless, let's all be friends, smile.
I'm probably addicted to the damned panic attacks!
