Facebook Is Using Your Profile to Track Global Urban Migration Trends

Re:Facebook Is Using Your Profile to Track Global Urban Migr... by Spearchucker on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:02AM (#6999832)

Not so sure. According to Facebook I'm 6 years younger than I am, I live in Monaco and studied rocket science at Harvard. Most of my friends have similar distortions, and when the subject comes up we're surprised when someone tells us their profile uses real data.

I know that my experience is hardly indicative of anything, but I'd like to believe that it's happening more and more.

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Re:Facebook Is Using Your Profile to Track Global Urban Migr... by KevinEldon on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:38AM (#7000041)

These are things your Facebook profile says about you, but based on your IP address, interactions with other people, presence in photos, how you describe events, applications you visit with Facebook credentials, language you use, etc. Facebook probably knows (or could know) a lot of real things about you.

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Re:Facebook Is Using Your Profile to Track Global Urban Migr... by jbrooksuk on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:08AM (#6999865)

Really? Apart from the odd few who use "Full time mummy" as their job description, everyone I know uses real information.

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Re:Facebook Is Using Your Profile to Track Global Urban Migr... by k-mcgrady on Thursday January 02, 2014 @11:50AM (#7000511)

I'd estimate over 90% of my friends show accurate information. Some don't fill it all out and a few use fake jobs or a silly middle name. Most of the fake information I see is left over from when people were younger and put up 'funny' stuff in the job field as they didn't have one then.

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Re:Facebook Is Using Your Profile to Track Global Urban Migr... by agumonkey on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:19AM (#6999932)

My quick-login-purpose Facebook account says I live on the dark side of the moon. I wonder if they will notify SpaceX.

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