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I once managed a Facebook account on behalf of someone else. Normally, you would expect this to confuse Facebook greatly. Instead the opposite happened: Wheneve
by shawn 8y ago
I once managed a Facebook account on behalf of someone else. Normally, you would expect this to confuse Facebook greatly. Instead the opposite happened: Whenever I was logged in as them, Facebook recommended me people that they knew.
This means you can find out who someone knows if (a) they’re not already a Facebook user, and (b) you create a profile for them. Whoopsie.
I kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating, which of course is derived from their family history. We’re all reduced to numbers in the end.
hyper-reality: https://vimeo.com/166807261 https://vimeo.com/166807261
- iamdave 8y agoI kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating, which of course is derived from their family history. I'd have to go look for it but I swear there's an episode of either Next Generation or Deep Space 9 that covers almost this exact topic to the letter. Anyone else know what I'm thinking of??
- shawn 8y agoCritical Care https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Care_(Star_Trek:_Voyager) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Care_(Star_Trek:_Vo...
- iamdave 8y agoThat's the one (lo and behold it was Voyager, after all)! Curious if that's where your mind was when you threw the idea of writing that story of yours?
- shawn 8y agoStar Trek was one of my biggest influences. I’ve been trying to think of a way to modernize the series without cannibalizing Roddenberry’s ideals. Or go the other way and do a Game of Thrones style Star Trek universe. Also https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkedd6A6_mU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkedd6A6_mU was one of the funniest trek videos I’ve seen.
- redbeard0x0a 8y agoLooks like CBS is bringing back Picard for a series - https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/1025840545216823296 https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/1025840545216823296
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Or go the other way and do a Game of Thrones style Star Trek universe. Focussing on the Klingon Empire (or the Mirror Universe Terran Empire) would let you do that without even having any tension with existing canon.
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- ryanianian 8y ago> I kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating Would be an interesting "prequel" to the troubling but good "Nosedive" episode of Black Mirror. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
- jwilk 8y agoHow did Facebook identify that person? By e-mail address?