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Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by humblefactory on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:58PM (#33428915)
Get into all the same trouble as Facebook. Stop thinking that more data is the answer. The problem is we don't know how to make ethical companies capable of dealing with the data they have. Fix that first. Please.
Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by pyuser583 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:29PM (#33429262)
Become insolvent in less than a day.
Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by gigel82 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:33PM (#33429309)
Nice try, Zuck! /s
Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by netsharc on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:46PM (#33429458)
Didn't Zuck want to start a dating service? With all the data they could probably match up people quite well (including their geographical closeness). FB could even have data on what kind of people you find attractive, based on how much of someone's photo album you went through and how long you admired their selfies.

Netflix was famous for its recommendation algorithm, a big-data dating service might even be able to see that a lot of couples work if one liked movie/song/city X and the other liked Y.

In theory, FB/Meta could also monitor the progress of relationships, from the "X added you as a friend on FB/Instagram", through the increase of communication between each other (WhatsApp messages, calls), to seeing each other (geo-location at different bars, restaurants) and even spending nights at eaxh other's places (which WiFi network was your phone connected to, throughout the night).

Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by bobberkarl on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @12:58AM (#33431585)
Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by Cyder on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:08PM (#33429708)
Ex machina answers that question... use it to build ai
Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by Cyder on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:10PM (#33429721)
Ever seen ex machina? User it to build an ai framework of appropriate responses to events.
Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by manfre on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:01PM (#33430598)
It would probably go bankrupt paying the storage costs. Hosted data is expensive to store, transfer, and even costly to delete.
Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by faangiq on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @11:53PM (#33431261)
Mega value but they’ll never let it go unless Elon gets em. Socials are about control.
Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by badcarbine on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:11AM (#33431915)
Something something AI Machine Learning. That’s all FB has in its future IMO…
Re:What could your startup do if it had the data of FB? by TheLoafOfBread on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @06:35AM (#33433698)
Get GDPRed into oblivion.