What could your startup do if it had the data of FB?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33428485

by ericoliang • 4 years ago

7 11 4 years ago

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Wondering what opportunities are created if you democratize personal info including close friends, demographics, ect for sites and apps.

humblefactory• 4 years ago

Get into all the same trouble as Facebook. Stop thinking that more data is the answer. The problem is we don't know how to make ethical companies capable of dealing with the data they have. Fix that first. Please.

pyuser583• 4 years ago

Become insolvent in less than a day.

gigel82• 4 years ago

Nice try, Zuck! /s

netsharc• 4 years ago

Didn't Zuck want to start a dating service? With all the data they could probably match up people quite well (including their geographical closeness). FB could even have data on what kind of people you find attractive, based on how much of someone's photo album you went through and how long you admired their selfies.

Netflix was famous for its recommendation algorithm, a big-data dating service might even be able to see that a lot of couples work if one liked movie/song/city X and the other liked Y.

In theory, FB/Meta could also monitor the progress of relationships, from the "X added you as a friend on FB/Instagram", through the increase of communication between each other (WhatsApp messages, calls), to seeing each other (geo-location at different bars, restaurants) and even spending nights at eaxh other's places (which WiFi network was your phone connected to, throughout the night).

bobberkarl• 4 years ago

It exists: https://www.facebook.com/dating/

Cyder2• 4 years ago

Ex machina answers that question... use it to build ai

Cyder2• 4 years ago

Ever seen ex machina? User it to build an ai framework of appropriate responses to events.

manfre• 4 years ago

It would probably go bankrupt paying the storage costs. Hosted data is expensive to store, transfer, and even costly to delete.

faangiq• 4 years ago

Mega value but they’ll never let it go unless Elon gets em. Socials are about control.

badcarbine• 4 years ago

Something something AI Machine Learning. That’s all FB has in its future IMO…

TheLoafOfBread• 4 years ago

Get GDPRed into oblivion.

What could your startup do if it had the data of FB?

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