Security → Facebook's secret, massive emotional manipulation experiment

Until Verizon gives me FIOS, my scary ants will keep eating through FIOS! :P

> using something AS A GUEST!!

And then there are those who think being a "guest" gives them security, or privacy, or anonymity .

> altered the news feeds

Seems to me, there were some altered news feeds here at dslreports not long ago....?
Right around April 1 I think it was?

What's a news feed? I never check my page, I head for daughter's page and discuss hippopotami and what they live in and/or wotters, weezels and moggies. (Otters, ferrets and cats)

I log in, allow FB via Noscript, click on kid's pic, read and post there, log out, revoke temporary permissions, close the browser which dumps everything. I also don't keep history. Not under my real name, and no profile. FB keeps hoping but they have to take 55Cancri as a location. I don't chat or use FB email, either.

I also don't have it on the phone. Titanium Backup lets you get rid of it totally.

If I do see "what's on your mind" the reply is nothing or maybe a verse from the Jabberwock or some such nonsense.

Check that on the Verge article. Facebook bigshot and mouthpeace Sheryl Sandberg bleated:

Facebook Experiments Had Few Limits
»online.wsj.com/articles/ ··· 04344378

Facebook denies emotion contagion study had government and military ties
»www.theguardian.com/tech ··· ary-ties

»www.xkcd.com/1390/

You are a product of an environment you don't control, for example:

quote:

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Over several weeks and hundreds of shoppers at two major supermarket chain stores in Oregon and Pennsylvania, Inman found that a typical shopper spends precisely $1 above his planned budget for every 55 feet (or, say, 20 paces) he walks in the store. That finding comes from pre-shopping interviews on planned purchases, RFID tracking to trace his movements through the store, and then an inspection of receipts afterward.

But the more significant part of the study involved coupons. With all the data that supermarkets can now collect from customers through loyalty programs, coupons touting savings can be personalized and delivered through mobile devices. Inman took one sample of people and divided them into two groups: 1) those getting a coupon for a product located close to the path they would normally travel, 2) those getting a coupon for a product further off that path, forcing them to cover more ground in the store.

Result: those forced off the beaten path spent $21 more than they had planned to, while those sticking closer to their routine spent $13 more than planned, a 61% difference.

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»www.forbes.com/sites/tom ··· ou-walk/

Ever wondered why some stores seem to be laid out by folks completely out of their minds on drugs, well they aren't on drugs, they are just moving the sheep.

Blake

We must drive the grocery store nuts, then. We both use lists, don't use brand coupons - we get the store's coupons and only use the ones we want. Rarely backtrack unless forgot an item not on the lists. We usually buy store's own brand anyway so store coupons are more useful.

I notice we don't get any more store coupons for any kind of desserts or sweets. We don't buy them.

Any coupons that come in the mail are automatically relegated to the trash. I do more special shopping online or elsewhere since no merchants in town carry what I do want.

10 Other Facebook Experiments On Users, Rated On A Highly-Scientific *WTF* Scale
»www.forbes.com/sites/kas ··· n-users/