Facebook's Graph Search: Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye 245
Nerval's Lobster writes "Software developer Jeff Cogswell is back with an extensive under-the-hood breakdown of Facebook's Graph Search, trying to see if peoples' privacy concerns about the social network's search engine are entirely justified. His conclusion? 'Some of the news articles I've read talk about how Graph Search will start small and slowly grow as it accumulates more information. This is wrong—Graph Search has been accumulating information since the day Facebook opened and the first connections were made in the internal graph structure,' he writes. 'People were nervous about Google storing their history, but it pales in comparison to the information Facebook already has on you, me, and roughly a billion other people.' There's much more at the link, including a handy breakdown of graph theory."
I was under the impression... (Score:0, Funny)
the minute you logged into FB you had to kiss your privacy goodbye?
Garbage in, garbage out (Score:5, Funny)
I have been peppering my FB check-ins with places that I have been to, noting events that never took place, mixed in with real check-ins. I have set my "Lives in" city to somewhere different every day this year. Unless you know me, good luck figuring out what on my FB page is real and what isn't.
Re:Yeah, right (Score:5, Funny)
As soon as I wrote that I was CEO of Shell Oil, owner of the US Treasury and as a imigrant from Jupiter, I lost all privacy. It is they who are cursed, not I.
Re:Yeah, right (Score:4, Funny)
$ cat
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Re:Garbage in, garbage out (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Garbage in, garbage out (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like you have a lot of free time on your hands. Like most Facebook users.
Re:Yeah, right (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not even on facebook!
And I'm scr****ed.
scrAMBLed?!?
Re:Yeah, right (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not even on facebook!
And I'm scr****ed.
scrAMBLed?!?
scrOTUMed.
Re:Yeah, right (Score:5, Funny)
Not me because I don't want to be put on a list of "hiding something because they don't use facebook like everyone else." Instead I have a script that finds the most common likes that average people click and it automatically likes them by me as well. My profile fits pretty much right in the middle.