Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your Thinking

Re:Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your ... by jrimbault on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:01AM (#16638027)

For curiosity's sake I'd like to see what such models could deduce about me personnally. Google ads and Amazon don't seem particularly apt to deduce who I am.

Last time I checked what ads google was serving me, it was all woman lingerie and services to Londoner expat living in Paris. I'm a young french man living in Paris, without any particular interests in lingerie, I've been to London once 10 years ago. I'd qualify myself as fitting in the norm of young CS students.

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Re:Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your ... by the-dude on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:01AM (#16638577)

> without any particular interests in lingerie

That is what you think.

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Re:Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your ... by JoeDaDude on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @01:08PM (#16640144)

> it was all woman lingerie... They don't know you, but they know your subconscious

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Re:Researchers Learned to Use Facebook ‘Likes’ to Sway Your ... by allthenews on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:08AM (#16638080)

>I'd qualify myself as fitting in the norm of young CS students

I say this in total seriousness, and with no ill intent: based on a number of CS twenty-something males that I've met in the Valley and Seattle over the last couple years, an unusual interest in lingerie is not necessarily that inaccurate of a prediction...

Which doesn't entirely surprise me anymore. Competent, self taught hackers tend to represent the upper tail of intelligence, and it seems to me that having such interests from a young age correlates with a number of unusual and perhaps less than socially acceptable interests. Which would probably be influenced by a lifetime of trouble "fitting in", something I suspect is a disproportionately familiar experience to many of us on HN.

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