Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by shawn on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:07AM (#17707271)

I once managed a Facebook account on behalf of someone else. Normally, you would expect this to confuse Facebook greatly. Instead the opposite happened: Whenever I was logged in as them, Facebook recommended me people that they knew.

This means you can find out who someone knows if (a) they’re not already a Facebook user, and (b) you create a profile for them. Whoopsie.

I kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating, which of course is derived from their family history. We’re all reduced to numbers in the end.

hyper-reality: https://vimeo.com/166807261

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by ryanianian on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:29AM (#17707489)

> I kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating

Would be an interesting "prequel" to the troubling but good "Nosedive" episode of Black Mirror. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by iamdave on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:25AM (#17707443)

I kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating, which of course is derived from their family history.

I'd have to go look for it but I swear there's an episode of either Next Generation or Deep Space 9 that covers almost this exact topic to the letter. Anyone else know what I'm thinking of??

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by shawn on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:30AM (#17707505)

Critical Care https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Care_(Star_Trek:_Vo...

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by iamdave on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:32AM (#17707527)

That's the one (lo and behold it was Voyager, after all)! Curious if that's where your mind was when you threw the idea of writing that story of yours?

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by shawn on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:39AM (#17707597)

Star Trek was one of my biggest influences. I’ve been trying to think of a way to modernize the series without cannibalizing Roddenberry’s ideals. Or go the other way and do a Game of Thrones style Star Trek universe.

Also https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkedd6A6_mU was one of the funniest trek videos I’ve seen.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by redbeard0x0a on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:55AM (#17707750)

Looks like CBS is bringing back Picard for a series - https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/1025840545216823296

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:00PM (#17707796)

> Or go the other way and do a Game of Thrones style Star Trek universe.

Focussing on the Klingon Empire (or the Mirror Universe Terran Empire) would let you do that without even having any tension with existing canon.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by jwilk on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:27PM (#17710424)

How did Facebook identify that person? By e-mail address?

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