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Inside Facebook Data Mining Research Group

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-your-business dept.

holy_calamity writes "Technology Review has an in depth profile of the team at Facebook tasked with figuring out what can be learned from all our data. The Data Science Team mine that information trove both in the name of scientific research into the patterns of human behavior and to advance Facebook's understanding of its users. Facebook's ad business gets the most public attention, but the company's data mining technology may have a greater effect on its destiny — and users lives."

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  1. FB, stop telling everybody what I comment or like by cribera · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perhaps it's not the best place, but I don't know how else to contact FB staff, perhaps someone here knows?

    Please Facebook staff READ THIS MESSAGE: http://tinypic.com/r/x4kc2a/6

    The message (not originally mine) is about how whenever I comment something or 'Like'something, it's appears on others people's newsfeed without myself wanting it. As said there, If I wanted all my friend to know about this activity, I'd use the SHARE button.

    Perhaps even your stock shares would do better if you'd acknowledge annoying stuff like these, and get rid of them to encourage your final users to use FB more. It doesn't seem complex to solve, isn't it?

  2. Re:FB, stop telling everybody what I comment or li by cribera · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go whine on one of the hundred Facebook groups for this you nitwit, nobody here cares, Facebook doesn't care. If you don't like it, stop using it. End of story.

    Apply the same logic to yourself, if you don't like my comment DON'T READ IT. Or is anybody forcing you?

    BTW, you complain about my message and not about the kilometric spam just above me, repeated over and over in /.