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		zecho on Feb 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Is Using You First, the headline doesn't represent the content very well. It should be Others May Use Data They Glean About You From Facebook. Secondly, I guess there's a fine line between "stereotyping" and statistics, isn't there? Thirdly, the author looks at some of the worst offenses of this type of mining and seems to extrapolate it as the norm. FUD mongering.

Drbble on Feb 5, 2012 [–]

Statistics teaches us that there is not a fine line at any boundary; there is wide fuzzy gradient.

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