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"Facebook might understand your romantic prospects better than you do." This article makes me angry. 4 years ago, I met a girl and we added each other on Face
by fudged71 13y ago
"Facebook might understand your romantic prospects better than you do."
This article makes me angry.
4 years ago, I met a girl and we added each other on Facebook. For a year, she saw my posts, but Facebook was hiding all her posts from me.
Ultimately we ran into each other again and fell in love. But it really sucks that I didn't see that year of her life while it was happening. Facebook simply decided not to show her in my timeline.
I wish that my friendships and relationships were not judged by an algorithm or censored without my knowledge. Machine learning et al are great for numerical tasks, but let's not try to treat emotions quantitatively. I would hope that we have a better sense of our emotions than computers reading just a fraction of my communications with someone.
- 72deluxe 13y agoCouldn't you have met up and shared pictures or looked at photo albums, like they did in the 80s?
- JetSpiegel 13y agoNot for Hacker News denizens. There's probably a startup idea here. Digitalize photo albums and show them on a web interface.
- Consultant32452 13y agoI would argue: not for anyone under 30. These kids eat up social media like it's going out of style.
- 72deluxe 13y agoI am 30 next month, and I don't consume social media at the same rate as others. I still enjoy meeting up or ringing people! My brother who is 37 dines at the fast-food serving social media restaurant far more than I do. He practically drives through! Wittily (and entirely seriously), he asked me "Do you use Twitter? It's like free text messaging!"..... Perhaps I am a bit of a stick in the mud? Besides, if I liked a girl as the parent said, I would much rather be with her (literally!) than feeling cheated that I couldn't observe portions of her life that she chose to share as served to my handheld device. It's like viewing life through a tiny viewfinder instead of looking around a bit more. Different lifestyles I suppose.