Call me paranoid, but I would trust evidence based on experimentation over Facebook's own claims any day, even if such claims were forthcoming, which I doubt. Of course, deriving such evidence would be far from easy, especially if bound by the terms of service... On Sep 26, 2010 8:00 PM, "live" <human.factor.one@gmail.com> wrote:
Isn't that a little like asking for Google's algorithm? Would they let out data like that? Hmmm, I wonder.
On Sep 26, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
I've learned a lot from the Facebook discussion about how "matches" are made,* but mostly it has been deduction, conjecture and anecdote.
*****Does anybody have any really reliable, verifiable evidence about how Facebook matches are actually made?
*And reinforced my own reasons for not on FBook, altho I am on Twitter.
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