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If Facebook can predict when a relationship is due to begin, why not just set the relationship status automatically? They must be doing this internally even if
by billyjobob 13y ago
If Facebook can predict when a relationship is due to begin, why not just set the relationship status automatically? They must be doing this internally even if they don't display it.
Or how about they notify all your friends: "John is sharing 1.65 posts/day with Janet but only 1.32 posts/day with his girlfriend Jane. Click here to suggest he dumps Jane and starts a new relationship with Janet."
- gamegoblin 13y agoI wonder how much fuzzy logic they keep behind the scenes. e.g. John is p=.95 in a relationship with Jane, and p=.1 relationship with Jill, and negligible for all others.
- gibybo 13y agoI suspect the statistical confidence is very low for any given individual and only strong when you look at large groups.
- D_Alex 13y agoYeah! What could possibly go wrong with that?
- NamTaf 13y agoThat's undoubtably their end goal. Even if it's not made public, they would then use it to target ads. Basically, if they can accurately predict human behaviours before the humans can, they can target the ads at the most effective point in time.
- einhverfr 13y agoThe question is, what can security agencies do with this information?
- batiudrami 13y agoReminds me of that story of Target sending marketing material to a pregnant teenage girl before her father knew. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
- fossuser 13y agoI read somewhere that internally at early Facebook they did calculate rough percentages of likely relationships, but that they stopped because it could be publicly damaging. I'm pretty sure this was the same article that talked about how they also assigned a 'human' percentage to each account based on metrics to try and weed out spam.