mothra wrote on Apr 19
th, 2020 at 7:21am:
aquascoot wrote on Apr 19
th, 2020 at 7:18am:
lol.
people should be far more concerned with what mark zuckerburg , jeff bezos and jack dorsey are doing to them.
those guys are ruthless and aggressive.
the machine learning, AI and algorhythms that face book use .
just one example,
facebook is now better at diagnosing manic depressive behaviour then doctors.
google is better at diagnosing it.
both can track your phone and see if you are visiting medical facilties, see if you are using certain words in your posts that indicate elevated or depressed mood. see if you are spending more on your credit card.
see if you are buying more chocalate (a subtel marker of depression in women), more alcohol ( a marker of depression in men).
and what do they do with the date.
if you are becoming manic, they send you ads for casinos
if you are becoming depressed they send you ads booze and chocolate.
they cash in on your weaknesses.
compared to them, the federal government is so,so,so,so benign
God you're full of shite.
One in four of us suffer from mental health problems every year, and around one third of the world's population uses Facebook. "FOMO" and "online addiction" might be thrown around as buzzwords, but the overlap between mental health and social media use is a burgeoning field of study.
The Facebook use in Affective Disorders (FAD) Study is currently underway in Melbourne, Australia; it's a collaboration between researchers from the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Centre and computer scientists from the School of Intelligent Systems at RMIT University. It tracks the Facebook activity and mood of participants with bipolar disorder to work out what "normal" is for them, with the hope of alerting subjects when they begin to stray from their usual patterns towards a potential relapse.
The study launched in June, and is open to anyone in Australia who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and uses Facebook.
The thing about mental illness is that it's not like a blood test—you can't say, 'Oh, their Facebook level is 50, they must be becoming manic…'
I spoke to psychiatrist Rowan Miller, who was inspired to create the FAD study after meeting a patient similar to my friend when he was still a med student.
"We were talking about what it was like to have a mental illness as a student," he told me, "and I asked if there was any way we could have foreseen the relapse coming. And he said, 'Yes, my Facebook. For weeks, friends have been texting me asking if I'm ok because I've been on Facebook so much.'"
For people with bipolar disorder, a manic episode can involve symptoms like impaired judgement, aggression, euphoria, rapid speech, racing thoughts, and at worst breaks from reality. Coupled with a decreased need for sleep, for some people the lure of venting their thoughts on Facebook proves overwhelming. Miller recalled asking why the patient hadn't gone out and socialized offline; "He replied that if you're awake at three in the morning, and you have the computer in front of you, it's just the lowest barrier to socializing with other people."
In the study, volunteers grant access to their Facebook metadata, allowing Miller and his team to analyze the frequency of their Facebook posts but not the content. The team then develops behavior algorithms which track the rhythm of the user's regular Facebook posts, and alert them when posting frequencies show inconsistencies.
"More than half of our participants have had relapses on Facebook before," said Miller, "So we're able to train the machines to understand how their relapses occur. The thing about mental illness is that it's not like a blood test—you can't say, 'Oh, their Facebook level is 50, they must be becoming manic…' There's absolutely no standard. But we tailor the study to them."
facebook were running ads for cheap flights to Las Vegas for people with high levles of facebook mania.
if you think Zuckerburg is less dangerous then Scomo, you seriously are a fool
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