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i cant wait to see facebook to leverage this to condition users into favoring advertisers/products who pay for premium advertising packages seriously what the

i cant wait to see facebook to leverage this to condition users into favoring advertisers/products who pay for premium advertising packages seriously what the fuck is facebook's PR team thinking letting their research staff publish something like this

scrollaway 12y ago
> seriously what the fuck is facebook's PR team thinking letting their research staff publish something like this Yes, it'd be so much better to let that research be done in secrecy, and sold to the highest advertising bidder. /s "Scary" as some of the things Facebook (replace by the bigdata corp of your choice) does may sound, I appreciate a lot when extremely-large-scale real world scientific tests, like this one, can be achieved and I appreciate a thousand times more the results being published. Call me crazy, but to me this is what "advancing the understanding of the human race forward" looks like... rather than "let's do designs on both round AND square watches".
- wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
  facebook doesnt exist to "advance the understanding of the human race", it exists to make money same with google, apple, and every other new age special snowflake company that pretends to be the good guy publishing these findings can only damage facebook's reputation and business - i can see it now; with two-bit tech journalists citing this paper for the next 10 years as evidence as to why facebook is controlling everyones minds
- A_COMPUTER 12y ago
  Do I have any reason to think they aren't running other experiments in secret and selling it? And considering that the US government already takes bids for "persona management" to influence social media, why shouldn't I think they're not a customer? Facebook, and all centralized social media platforms, are dangerous. Nobody should have this influencing power.
  - scrollaway 12y ago
    > Facebook, and all centralized social media platforms, are dangerous. Nobody should have this influencing power. I couldn't agree more. That also was not my point.
    - A_COMPUTER 12y ago
      Secret or not secret are not mutually exclusive, was all my point. the rest was just an aside. The knowledge is even useful, but for me it's been completely overshadowed by knowing that they are manipulating us to learn, in effect, how to manipulate us better. It's not even theoretical. I was watching Google I/O, and in the section about Android TV, they showed how the device, if you left your TV on, would show you soothing images that they selected. What kind of power is that! Imagine if suddenly, all the images on every Android TV switched to the same image. How would what that image presented affect the world at that moment?

scrollaway 12y ago

> seriously what the fuck is facebook's PR team thinking letting their research staff publish something like this Yes, it'd be so much better to let that research be done in secrecy, and sold to the highest advertising bidder. /s "Scary" as some of the things Facebook (replace by the bigdata corp of your choice) does may sound, I appreciate a lot when extremely-large-scale real world scientific tests, like this one, can be achieved and I appreciate a thousand times more the results being published. Call me crazy, but to me this is what "advancing the understanding of the human race forward" looks like... rather than "let's do designs on both round AND square watches".

wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
facebook doesnt exist to "advance the understanding of the human race", it exists to make money same with google, apple, and every other new age special snowflake company that pretends to be the good guy publishing these findings can only damage facebook's reputation and business - i can see it now; with two-bit tech journalists citing this paper for the next 10 years as evidence as to why facebook is controlling everyones minds
A_COMPUTER 12y ago
Do I have any reason to think they aren't running other experiments in secret and selling it? And considering that the US government already takes bids for "persona management" to influence social media, why shouldn't I think they're not a customer? Facebook, and all centralized social media platforms, are dangerous. Nobody should have this influencing power.
- scrollaway 12y ago
  > Facebook, and all centralized social media platforms, are dangerous. Nobody should have this influencing power. I couldn't agree more. That also was not my point.
  - A_COMPUTER 12y ago
    Secret or not secret are not mutually exclusive, was all my point. the rest was just an aside. The knowledge is even useful, but for me it's been completely overshadowed by knowing that they are manipulating us to learn, in effect, how to manipulate us better. It's not even theoretical. I was watching Google I/O, and in the section about Android TV, they showed how the device, if you left your TV on, would show you soothing images that they selected. What kind of power is that! Imagine if suddenly, all the images on every Android TV switched to the same image. How would what that image presented affect the world at that moment?