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John Foreman on Facebook's data mining and manipulation

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And? (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-07-07 00:02 (#2C0)

Am I the only one who approves of what they did? Of COURSE their users are fodder for whatever data experiment Facebook deems fit. What the devil did people think the arrangement was about when they were stupid enough to record their real names, relationships, and activities on somebody else's web site? It's GOOD that FB is trying to be intelligent about how they milk the base. Do you want your keepers to be stupid?

FB owes its users nothing, and good for the users if they ever manage to figure that out. Their accounts exist for only one purpose, to make money for Zuck and shareholders. Schmucks.

Re: And? (Score: 2, Insightful)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-07-07 09:16 (#2C2)

You've got a good point, sort of. You mean they didn't put all this hardware and software on line for my benefit only, so I could share pictures of my kid vomiting with friends and family?

There's a good XKCD about it: http://xkcd.org/1390/ "Research Ethics"

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