[Chester LUG] facebook

[Robin Hemuss]

Hello people,

I don't know if this is old news for everyone else. The article's a few months 
old, but still interesting I think.

http://www.nature.com/news/misjudgements-will-drive-social-trials-underground-1.15553?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

It seems that facebook spent some time feeding people disproportionately 
good/bad news in their updates, and monitored if they behaved happy/sad as a 
result. Apparently this is ethical because it's pretty much what they 
normally do anyway, and also it's not that much different from regular 
advertising. Sounds a bit iffy to me though.

I just wondered what the general opinion over this kind of stuff is. How can 
you keep your facebook activity secret from facebook?

Cheers,
Robin