Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users’ Political Sentiments
But some social media analysis of politics is going beyond that. A partnership between Facebook and Politico announced today is one of the more far-reaching efforts. It will consist of sentiment analysis reports and voting-age user surveys, accompanied by stories by Politico reporters.
Most notably, the Facebook-Politico data set will include Facebook users’ private status messages and comments. While that may alarm some people, Facebook and Politico say the entire process is automated and no Facebook employees read the posts.[link:http://allthingsd.com/20120112/facebook-gives-politico-deep-access-to-users-political-sentiments/|
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I've been rethinking whether to keep my FB going. With the exception of the DU Group I'm on FB, I think it's pretty superficial.
This does anger me. This is what we now know, what else is there that we don't know?
They have willfully admitted "Total Information Awareness" into their lives"
Not really. FB has no knowledge of my income or resources, my religion, my politics, my philosophies, etc. It has no idea where I work. It fact, about the only thing it knows about me is that I make really dumb jokes about three times a week.
I have noticed a huge change in Facebook in the past year. Teabagger stuff is almost all gone, while pro-OWS/anti-teabagger posts are all over the place.
Methinks the people behind Politico have noticed this also, and are starting to panic. They are digging deeper in hopes that they can find some "silent majority" that still backs them. They won't. The deeper they look, the more opposition they will find.
(Kinda like here at DU 
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Radio and television stations sell their audience to the advertisers -- they deliver the audience, hopefully the one the advertiser is seeking, in exchange for the advertisers' $$. Facebook, and any internet discussion board that carries advertising or otherwise makes its users available to a third party for money, is doing exactly the same thing.
It appears to be a win-win-win situation, on its face. Free programming for the audience, profit for the broadcaster, a vehicle for the advertiser to reach its target population. Until the audience stops to think what it might be offered if it were actually able to exercise choice outside the narrow lowest-common-denominator range presented. There's a reason that BBC programming is head and shoulders above US network programming: it is funded by the public, and produced for the public.
If Facebook is (and it is) selling its users to its advertisers and whatever other customers it can come up with, obviously it is going to facilitate and encourage the users to make as much information about themselves as possible available to Facebook, and exploit that information commercially by selling it on.
I have a number of Facebook accounts. None of them or the associated contain any information about myself beyond an equally uninformative gmail address. If I want to communicate with people I know, I do it in true private. It's beyond me why anyone would do otherwise.
I dont care if the world knows I think republican are crooks I like posting video showing Romney is a serial killer because he killed American workers jobs .
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The world should kinow he a creep 
Thank you so much for this post. I had no idea this was taking place. It is so sad 
