It's too bad that commentators are feeling "creeped out" by the Facebook study:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/even-the-editor-of- facebooks-mood-study-thought-it-was-creepy/373649/ What's really depressing is not that Facebook users feel manipulated, but that they don't realize that Facebook is constantly modifying what they see. I don't do much on Facebook, but I find the email notifications I get from it bizarre. Why *don't* I get notifications of some things? Why *do* I get the ones I do? (And I'm quite sure Facebook's algorithms are starting to work me out, to an extent, because the notifications I *am* getting are becoming more "interesting," in that I am more frequently responding and going to Facebook to check the posting as a result. Now *that's* creepy.) Bummer. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rsl...@vcn.bc.ca sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@computercrime.org Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. - Diogenes the Cynic victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
