Facebook lets you “like” most anything these days, and recently their supercomputers started taking guesses at things you might like based on your current interests (check the right column when you log in if this doesn’t sound familiar).
Why This Is Interesting
Facebook’s guesses are purely data driven. They usually make sense but not always. For example, behold this steaming turd of a suggestion I received:
This got me wondering about how awesomely weird/ironic/offensive can these get?
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Recently a lot of press has been given to the fact that more people preferred to be an online fan of an inanimate pickle than of the modern rock band Nickelback. This has made newspaper second-pages across the country and even solicited ire from the band themselves. But what did this exercise really prove? Was Nickelback’s reputation sullied at all? If anything, people that had never heard of Nickelback before this instance may actually become fans of the band. All that was proven was this:
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