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14 points by davisonio 8 years ago · 9 comments

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JorgeGT 8 years ago

Server seems down, but I guess it refers to this? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lost-circles-socia...

I did something similar many years ago, exporting my Facebook data and plotting a simple force-directed graph [1] of my network, it was quite interesting how meaningful groups and connections emerge: https://wechoosethemoon.es/assets/img/posts/colores.png

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force-directed_graph_drawing?o...

  • davisonioOP 8 years ago

    Very interesting! This tool only seems to collect the profile picture and provide a basic laggy interface to view it. Likely the tool you used previously for this dones't work thanks to API Facebook changes.

woliveirajr 8 years ago

Buy it for $1.99 a year...

  • floatrock 8 years ago

    So it's a bunch of EU Germans receiving payment for downloading your entire social graph and click-jacking your facebook session (this looks to be a chrome extension that would have access to everything, not something that uses even the marginally-permissioned oauth API).

    1. Where is the GDPR privacy notice?

    2. In light of all the cambridge analytica fallout, where is ANY privacy notice?

    • tshanmu 8 years ago

      can't upvote this enough!! I half expected this to be a psychological experiment to see if users use something like this after the Cambridge Analytica fallout

  • davisonioOP 8 years ago

    True I bought this as a one off since this was the only tool I found to gather the data easily.

  • hoopism 8 years ago

    The one time I don't read comments first :(

crossdiver 8 years ago

I see that Cambridge Analytica figured out their rebranding strategy.

  • davisonioOP 8 years ago

    Indeed...although from testing this the only thing they gather are the names and mutuals of your facebook friends with profile pictures.

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