Post by Rickster on Feb 4, 2016 11:55:58 GMT -6
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This is an amazing concept, but this is data mining at it's finest. I tried so hard to get rid of and close my facebook page the second I heard government was tied directly into facebook servers it made me crazy. So I busted my butt trying to cancel, close, extinguish, etc. everything facebook. I thought I had, let this be a lesson to anyone who hasn't started a facebook page YOU CAN'T CLOSE IT. It stays forever you have no choice, they also change the rules and regulations regularly as well as security features without your permission. Once again you have no choice. It is always a good idea to constantly check your settings, one day without your knowing you might just allow anyone no matter how unscrupulous to see your personal information and well as the personal information of your friends and family.
If I seem a little over the top on the surveillance from government on facebook, or the government in general for that matter.. lol It's because in my lifetime our country has gone from this friendly place where you could walk the streets anytime day or night, to terror attacks, and complete government surveillance of every communication we make. There is nothing the citizens did to desire this, in fact big corporate business came up with great ideas and now in conjunction with government have learned how to use this new found data stream to watch us even closer. Imagine the government looking for you, facebook gives them every friend and family member you could be with at anytime. You might not have even done anything wrong they just want to know where everyone is at any given time. Or as we have seen in the past, they are completely capable of making something up. Check the link in the above paragraph for your separation value. Great concept lousy intrusion..
"The idea of six degrees of separation was introduced more than 80 years ago. It suggests that you are six introductions away from meeting anyone in the world. In other words, everyone in the world is connected through a chain of six links. For some, fewer introductions are required to come in direct contact with Barrack Obama or Stephen Hawking. A study made at Facebook suggests that, among its users at least, there are now only 3.57 degrees of separation on average.
The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called “Chains.” The idea became very popular and in time mathematicians jumped the wagon to prove or disprove it. For decades they were unsuccessful. Then in 1967, American sociologist Stanley Milgram framed the problem a tad differently into the “the small-world problem”. Participants selected at random from the mid-West were asked to send a package to a stranger in Massachusetts. The senders knew the recipient’s name, occupation, and general location, but not the address. They were instructed to send the package to a person they knew on a first-name basis who they thought was most likely, out of all their friends, to know the target personally. That person would do the same, and so on, until the package was personally delivered to its target recipient.
Initially, everyone thought the package would have to change hands 100 times, but it only took between five and seven intermediaries for the package to reach the rightful owner. The findings were published and further popularized the concept. It led to the phrase “six degrees of separation”, the title of a play and film made subsequently. Even Hollywood has its own version called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. It’s a trivia game that challenges players to find the shortest path between actor Kevin Bacon and another actor – through his or her film roles."
The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called “Chains.” The idea became very popular and in time mathematicians jumped the wagon to prove or disprove it. For decades they were unsuccessful. Then in 1967, American sociologist Stanley Milgram framed the problem a tad differently into the “the small-world problem”. Participants selected at random from the mid-West were asked to send a package to a stranger in Massachusetts. The senders knew the recipient’s name, occupation, and general location, but not the address. They were instructed to send the package to a person they knew on a first-name basis who they thought was most likely, out of all their friends, to know the target personally. That person would do the same, and so on, until the package was personally delivered to its target recipient.
Initially, everyone thought the package would have to change hands 100 times, but it only took between five and seven intermediaries for the package to reach the rightful owner. The findings were published and further popularized the concept. It led to the phrase “six degrees of separation”, the title of a play and film made subsequently. Even Hollywood has its own version called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. It’s a trivia game that challenges players to find the shortest path between actor Kevin Bacon and another actor – through his or her film roles."
This is an amazing concept, but this is data mining at it's finest. I tried so hard to get rid of and close my facebook page the second I heard government was tied directly into facebook servers it made me crazy. So I busted my butt trying to cancel, close, extinguish, etc. everything facebook. I thought I had, let this be a lesson to anyone who hasn't started a facebook page YOU CAN'T CLOSE IT. It stays forever you have no choice, they also change the rules and regulations regularly as well as security features without your permission. Once again you have no choice. It is always a good idea to constantly check your settings, one day without your knowing you might just allow anyone no matter how unscrupulous to see your personal information and well as the personal information of your friends and family.
"In 2001, Duncan Watts, a professor at Columbia University, made his own six degree research and recreated Milgram’s experiment on the internet. In this case, the package was an e-mail. After 48,000 senders and 19 targets in 157 countries, the average number of connection required was indeed six.
Social networks are definitely an upgrade and provide an even more refine look. According to Facebook, there are 3.57 intermediaries required to connected any of its 1.6 billion users with one another. As the world becomes increasingly connected, this separation will decline. In 2008 the number was 4.28.
The number of connections depend on geography and user density. In the U.S., there are an average of 3.47 degrees of separation. It also depends on the person. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has 3.17 degrees. You can check your own degrees of separation here."
Social networks are definitely an upgrade and provide an even more refine look. According to Facebook, there are 3.57 intermediaries required to connected any of its 1.6 billion users with one another. As the world becomes increasingly connected, this separation will decline. In 2008 the number was 4.28.
The number of connections depend on geography and user density. In the U.S., there are an average of 3.47 degrees of separation. It also depends on the person. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has 3.17 degrees. You can check your own degrees of separation here."