Comment by rhizome | Hacker News Reader

Comment by rhizome | Hacker News Reader

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So in the end we will share everything with our friends, but our friends will only pretend to listen.

It's not pretending if they've muted you, you're being ignored. Which is not a bad thing, noisewise, it natural and to be expected, but that's besides my point.

My point is that you will always have a default friend who wants to hear everything you share, a friend who will never mute you, never block your Zynga Blogville updates. No, it's not me, nor is it Tom Anderson; your default friend is Facebook itself. FB will always listen to you and will always want to know about everything you do.

I wonder how long it will be until Facebook itself can be called as your character witness? Not as mere physical evidence of things you've said or done, but an analysis of all of those events over time and the phychological profile that they imply.

That could be a new job - Facebook timeline analyzer. Snake oil or not, people would probably fall for it.

    "It's not pretending if they've muted you, you're being ignored."

But does FB tell you when somebody mutes you?

No.

Thank God. I don't think my ego could handle it,

Now that you mention it - I always thought Google might be the first company to create real AI. Now I realize that Facebook might be in the game, too. Then it really could be your friend.

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