The New York Times columnist Suhail Shenway was interested in how the world's largest social network, Facebook, was monitoring the mood and lives of its users. Analyzed hundreds of patent applications filed by the company in recent years, and chose 6 of them proving: that there is no longer any personal life and personal secrets on the Internet.
1. Predicting the future
There is a Facebook patent called "Predicting Life Changes of Members of a Social Networking System". This patent can be described as allowing the use of your posts, comments and personal messages, as well as transactions and the actual location of your bank card in order to anticipate the events of your future life. For example, the death of a loved one, the birth of a child or, for example, the final exam in your studies, which will turn your destiny.
2. With who and how you spend your time
We talked about previous topics about how Facebook follows your friends and acquaintances even those who do not have a friendly relationship within the social network. But the patent called "Statistics for continuous location tracking" greatly expands Facebook's sequential capabilities. This patent suggests comparing the physical location of the phone with the smartphone site of your friends and acquaintances. If your mobile is next to you, you spend some time with each other. It can also tell you where you're working, for example, or where you're used to dinner.
3. Where do you live and when do you change your habits?
At night, your phone provides information to Facebook about where you sleep. If you sleep in the same place every night, you can easily calculate the location of your home. Facebook will track all your smartphones, if you change your habits suddenly and go to sleep somewhere (for someone else). A patent application called "Routine deviation notification" implies that all your similar habits will also be monitored.
4. With who are you in a romantic relationship?
The patent owned by Facebook is called "Inferring relationship statuses of users of a social networking system". To calculate "everything is complex," the social network analyzes a huge amount of information: for example, how often do you go to the pages of some users you meet, where you spend your free time, how many friends of the opposite sex you own, and so on.
As such, Facebook can categorically categorize you as "married," "in relationship," or "single."
5. Who are you as a person
Plain or introverted? Enthusiastic or emotionally stable? Lover tea or coffee? A patent called "Determining user personality characteristics from social networking system communications and characteristics" gives you an opportunity to make your mental image more accurate.
6. What you see and hear
What is the TV program that you watch and separate during advertising, what do you prefer on radio stations, what ads you hear while roaming the supermarket, or what you are listening to? City? This information allows the social network to know which content is acceptable to you. Of course, this is more effective to manipulate your future.
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