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This is creepy to me. Yet another reason I don't trust Facebook

http://allthingsd.com/20120112/facebook-gives-politico-deep-access-to-users-political-sentiments/
Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users’ Political Sentiments
January 12, 2012 at 11:02 am PT
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Counting Twitter mentions would have you believe that Ron Paul is the most popular Republican candidate in the ongoing U.S. primaries. Umm, right.

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.

Rather, every post and comment — both public and private — by a U.S. user that mentions a presidential candidate’s name will be fed through a sentiment analysis tool that spits out anonymized measures of the general U.S. Facebook population.

This is similar to the way Google offers reports on search trends based on its users’ aggregate search activities.

Please see the disclosure about Facebook in my ethics statement.

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Disgusting.

This is a betrayal of the core principles of capitalism.

Users' political sentiments are a valuable resource and should be priced accordingly.

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As if I needed another reason not to use facebook.

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Now some people can mess with system by say posting a status like this
Ron Paul Ron Paul Ron Paul etc

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Hey...........now thats a funny idea. Whos REALLY lagging behind and being a total nob on the campaign? Whoever that is, we should start doing that
   
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Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:Now some people can mess with system by say posting a status like this
Ron Paul Ron Paul Ron Paul etc


Bob Dole thinks it should be Bob Dole not Ron Paul.




   
 
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