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- deaconyermouf, on 12/18/2007, -0/+16Who I stalk is none of your business, thank you very much. *checks newsfeed*
- Error601, on 12/18/2007, -0/+15I think the scholars should study the concept of a biased sample.
- Bridea, on 12/18/2007, -3/+14Not a petri dish. A peephole, sure, but not a petri dish. Terrible use of metaphor.
- mandarin, on 12/18/2007, -2/+11Top scholars have nothing to do except troll in Facebook and call it research eh? What happened to solving world hunger?
- orangetiki, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6I fear for our youth.
- Chirp08, on 12/18/2007, -0/+6well considering for the most part all they do is go to class, sleep and *****, seems about right..
- Malchus89, on 12/18/2007, -1/+6This makes college students sound like lab rats....
- HamSandwich, on 12/18/2007, -0/+5Damn, I've got a serious case of monitor envy now...
- alsahir, on 12/18/2007, -0/+5The tremendously amusing thing is the students and other users who put their information out there for all to see, but complain when researchers or employers look too. Somehow it is a violation of their privacy for someone to see what they put on their social networking site on the Internet.
- krnldmp, on 12/18/2007, -0/+4I know all I really want to do is become part of a "data set" for "top scholars". That way they can sell their best analysis to greedy corporations and government Bozos that can then better know how to sell me the rosiest picture of society and its products!
- KeanuReeves, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3Whoa
- ladyarcher85, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3Well, they think an app in facebook called freerice something will take care of that.
- whatthefu, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3Why would you study it when millions of college kids can tell you all the sociological and psychological implications regarding it already?
- MEchanicalART, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3I don't like this idea, they will become so good at controlling you and me....
- finkployd, on 12/18/2007, -0/+3You seem to miss the weekly stories about digg being up for sale. Why do you think people want to buy digg? I don't think it's for your or my witty comments.
- anteyekon4myst, on 12/18/2007, -1/+3Facebook: Society and identities reduced to metonymic tags cateogrized into the commercial interests we align ourselves with, and the occasional i acknowledge your existence poke.
- ps3udov3ctor, on 12/18/2007, -0/+2I do not give you permission to use me in your study. Please remove me from your data sample.
- randovaro, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2"No one would have believed, in the first years of the twenty first century, that facebook affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as facebookers busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."
- Raian, on 12/18/2007, -1/+3Top scholars as opposed to Bottom scholars... such a powerful divide in the homosexual-scholarly community.
- krnldmp, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Wrong. Once you get sociologists in the picture the loop is closed and concerned parties get to watch whether the little bacteria are growing the way they want.
- induren, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Beyond stupid if the scholars do not take into account SES and who actually uses FB versus who does not. If that is done, ok it gets Induren's seal of tentative scholarly approval.
- MikeonTV, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Yes. we are all freaks!
- antdude, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Not the nerds and geeks.
- ladyarcher85, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1Now I know how my pet white rat in a change feels like...
- victrola, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1I wish everyone would just jump ship from facebook and all of these people woulkd go broke.
- mardybum, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1That guy looks like Sean Connery
- vonskippy, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1So what, they study monkeys in the jungle as well, whats the difference?
- huxleyan, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1This is somewhat of a side note, but social scientists are having a more difficult time getting a representative sample in most surveys now because they are telephone based. A growing number of young people are not using land line phones, and (usually) cellphone numbers are unlisted. This means that a sample that is truly representative will become more and more difficult to obtain.
While Facebook admittedly is not a perfect unbiased sample group it does present new avenues for data collection, so those who view this with skepticism now are going to have to get used to the idea in the future. - dvance, on 12/18/2007, -0/+1A grad student from Duke visited our PolSci class at Utah State. We discussed a research project she was undertaking; I forget every nuance of the project, but she wants to see how opinion leaders on Facebook affect their friends' political behavior.
- rjc5056, on 12/18/2007, -0/+0Dugg for his sick-ass monitor in the pic.
- gardeposter, on 12/18/2007, -1/+1This seems like another PR publication by Facebook.
- inactive, on 12/18/2007, -0/+0its closed as far as facebook is concerned but im not sure how many people use face book as an extension of themselves
- blackmage439, on 12/18/2007, -3/+2Buried because Mark Z. and the entity known as Facebook are both lying sacks of *****. There are two kinds of companies in this world that implement privacy protection mechanisms. Those that respect your privacy, and those that want to avoid legal trouble from their *****-ups. Facebook is the latter. They should have NEVER implemented Beacon as they did.
"John has just bought a 24 Kt diamond ring from Macy's!"
John's wife: Um... you just bought me a ring, and it was only 12 Kt!!!
John: Well... it's not for you exact... oh *****.
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