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To most people Facebook's graph represents their friends, their family, their coworkers, people they went to high school with, random people who sent a request
by MatthewPhillips 15y ago
To most people Facebook's graph represents their friends, their family, their coworkers, people they went to high school with, random people who sent a request even though you met them once at a party... that is the norm. I've been saying for a while that the best representation of a true social graph is on you Android and iPhones. the people you call, text, email, and Facebook wall post are the people you care about. Why Google and Apple haven't used this to their advantage yet, I'm not sure.
- nostrademons 15y agoThere're potential privacy implications to using your call logs to build an implicit social graph. People have an expectation that their phone call records will remain private; look at all the trouble the NSA got into when they started spying on them. There's no such expectation when you explicitly give your relationship data to a third-party website. Not to say it won't happen, but a bunch of things need to be worked out on the legal/ethical/cultural side of things before this is practical. As PG always says, social changes take longer than technical changes.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoNo need to violate anyone's privacy; do it completely on the client side. Then bridge to public via Buzz (in the case of Google).
- hessenwolf 15y agoI have two contacts in my email, one is my Mom, and the other is my male boss. All of a sudden I am seeing lots of transgenderfication sites in my results. Mom? It would still be a violation of privacy because it is crossing the friend/contact line.