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S01E03 : Like Mining

A couple of likes on Facebook, that can’t say much about you, right? Wrong.
The German blogger and TV-presenter Richard Gutjahr welcomes you to the unbelievable world of online-profiling.

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E3 - Social Networks Must Read

What Your Tweets Say About You

How much can your tweets reveal about you? Judging by the last nine hundred and seventy-two words that I used on Twitter, I’m about average when it comes to feeling upbeat and being personable, and I’m less likely than most people to be depressed or angry. That, at least, is the snapshot provided by AnalyzeWords, one of the latest creations from James Pennebaker, a psychologist at the University of Texas who studies how language relates to well-being and personality. One of Pennebaker’s most famous projects is a computer program called Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (L.I.W.C.), which looks at the words we use, and in what frequency and context, and uses this information to gauge our psychological states and various aspects of our personality.

— Read on newyorker.com
E3 - Social Networks E6 - Filter Bubble Must Read

Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internet

It was in Indonesia three years ago that Helani Galpaya first noticed the anomaly. Indonesians surveyed by Galpaya told her that they didn’t use the internet. But in focus groups, they would talk enthusiastically about how much time they spent on Facebook. Galpaya, a researcher (and now CEO) with LIRNEasia, a think tank, called Rohan Samarajiva, her boss at the time, to tell him what she had discovered. “It seemed that in their minds, the Internet did not exist; only Facebook,” he concluded.

— Read on Quartz
E3 - Social Networks E6 - Filter Bubble Must Read

Facebook’s Project to Find Out What People Really Want in Their News Feed

It’s part of a continuing effort by Facebook to make the News Feed central to our existence. “The dream is to get to this world where people feel that Facebook is an instrumental, useful, important part of their lives,” says the company’s chief product officer, Chris Cox. “That’s the golden thing.”

— Read on Medium
E3 - Social Networks Must Read

Facebook Page Unliker

Remember those embarassing pages you liked on Facebook as back when it was first starting? When it was known as “Becoming a Fan” of a page? Some of us that were bored teenagers (such as myself), when in a liking spree for these pages, accumulating a lot of embarrassing (and dumb), likes in the process. This app merely allows you to see all of your Facebook Pages liked (oldest) first and allowing you to scroll through and unlike those that you do not wish to show up on your profile anymore. Don’t worry, we don’t store any personal data from your Facebook account, we just need to you to connect using it so we can find your pages that you need to unlike. Enjoy and share this with your friends!

— Read on pageunliker
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