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Study of facebook messaging patterns by HP Labs
- danw 20y agoThis is the paper where the "43% of facebook messages are spam" claim originates, something which I am inclined to dispute. Other than that its a great look at user habits. The graphs speak for themselves.
- notabel 20y agoI don't find it entirely impossible. After Startup School I talked to Adam D'Angelo about spam on facebook (largely because I'd never seen any); he said that there is a lot of spam activity, but that internal safeguards prevent most of it from ever being visible. If the researchers were using internal, pre-filter datasets, their claim is reasonable.
- danw 20y agoGood point. I was concerned that the researches might be counting messages to groups as spam.
- binarybana 20y agoInteresting, its always a wakeup call to see the amount of real world conclusions that can be gleaned from a (seemingly useless) dataset. An interesting parallel to human psychology as well: often the people you are quite certain have nothing to teach you are the ones with the most valuable lessons for you to learn.