Yawn! We knew this was happening for years. FB scraped data for one purpose only: To figure out who your close friends were offline. And they wanted all sorts o

Yawn! We knew this was happening for years. FB scraped data for one purpose only: To figure out who your close friends were offline. And they wanted all sorts of information that could indicate closeness. From location data that would show how often you meet up together and how long you hang out. To phone call and sms data. Now a lot of that data is dead data. Like it has no use after a couple of years. But just like Google cookie having an expiration date of 20 years, FB just does not know when that data becomes irrelevant. FB and zuck have this manifest dream of figuring out connections and then figuring out the strength of those connections. Then they want to figure out social relevance. Then they want to use that info to bind people together on their platform. It is not a bad idea overall, until you add in government and corporate entities. And by that time you know how evil of a thing you signed up for.