Data-Mine Your Own Facebook Data With Wolfram Alpha

Nerval's Lobster writes "Ever wanted to mine your own Facebook data? Wolfram Alpha is offering you the chance. Wolfram Alpha bills itself as a 'computational knowledge engine.' In contrast to other search engines such as Google and Bing, which return pages of blue hyperlinks in response to queries, Wolfram Alpha offers up objective data: type in the name of a person, for example, and you might receive their dates of birth and death, a timeline, and a graph of Wikipedia page hits. Now Wolfram Alpha's offering a new feature that can spit back years of your personal Facebook data sliced, diced, visualized and analyzed."

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Whole new can of worm

[Taco Cowboy]

Just imagine if your fb account was hacked and your password was compromised

With the help of Wolfram, now the hacker can get to datamine your data, get things about you that you do not even know ever existed

Ouch !!
 

Re:Whole new can of worm

[Anonymous Coward]

Hacker doesn't care that your college cluster graphs closer to your work cluster than your HS cluster. WA doesn't find anything secret. But yeah keep talking out your ass.

Re:Whole new can of worm

[TheLink]

I think it's just going through your entire timeline. If you've deleted a lot of it it won't get as much. Anyone can confirm it?

Does wolfram store the info or does their access to your account info persist? If they do just imagine if hackers hack wolfram and get all the info.

Why are people here so willing to let yet another party datamine their FB data for FREE? Yes FB has all the data, but at least they'll charge others for it, and I doubt they'd share it all with Google or Microsoft or Yahoo.