Alexis Kleinman, Huffington Post.
On Huffington Post, Alexis Kleinman wrote an article called "Your Facebook 'Likes' Can Reveal If Your Gay, How You Vote: Study" on March 11, 2013. In this article, the dangers of Facebook like were revealed. One might think it is extremely harmless but those likes reveal more about an individual than they realize. The National academy of Sciences analyzed the Facebook accounts of more than 58,000 users who have volunteered access to their likes.. Researchers make guesses about their personalities and behavior, and even whether they drank, smoked, or used drugs. Facebook had released the like button in 2009 and since then, about 2.7 billion people use the like button everyday. All the surveyors took a personality test. After the guessing was over, the answers given on the test and the guesses made about the likes were very similar. It was also then made clear that some like were more revealing than others. Many linkages were also made during this time for example, " Men who liked TV song-and- dance sensation 'Glee' were more likely to be gay than those who watch professional wrestling. All this information is put willingly by Facebook users not realizing how a simple Facebook like could reveal their entire personality to a certain extent. People should start proceeding with caution while they use Facebook because one day, the information users willingly make available to everyone could be used against them.
On Huffington Post, Alexis Kleinman wrote an article called "Your Facebook 'Likes' Can Reveal If Your Gay, How You Vote: Study" on March 11, 2013. In this article, the dangers of Facebook like were revealed. One might think it is extremely harmless but those likes reveal more about an individual than they realize. The National academy of Sciences analyzed the Facebook accounts of more than 58,000 users who have volunteered access to their likes.. Researchers make guesses about their personalities and behavior, and even whether they drank, smoked, or used drugs. Facebook had released the like button in 2009 and since then, about 2.7 billion people use the like button everyday. All the surveyors took a personality test. After the guessing was over, the answers given on the test and the guesses made about the likes were very similar. It was also then made clear that some like were more revealing than others. Many linkages were also made during this time for example, " Men who liked TV song-and- dance sensation 'Glee' were more likely to be gay than those who watch professional wrestling. All this information is put willingly by Facebook users not realizing how a simple Facebook like could reveal their entire personality to a certain extent. People should start proceeding with caution while they use Facebook because one day, the information users willingly make available to everyone could be used against them.
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