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FACEBOOK HAS A NUMBER of uses, mostly communication, but it can also be used to glean information about other things you might not have realised, such as sleeping patterns
A software developer, Søren Louv-Jansen, from Denmark, created a tool where he could track the sleep patterns of his friends using activity data from Facebook.
The tool uses the activity timestamps that Facebook stores on its site and Messenger app, showing them when they were last active on the site, and used it to determine when people were asleep or awake.
The software checked Facebook’s database on user activity every ten minutes, allowing him to create graphs showing how it unfolded. Since most people check Facebook the first thing in the morning and night, Louv-Jansen was able to determine the sleeping patterns of its busier users.
In general, sleep patterns were consistent on the weekdays but ended up becoming random on the weekends.
Louv-Jansen has put the source code for the tool up on GitHub although Facebook itself has asked him to discourage others from using his software, although he said the intention wasn’t to spy on his friends. Instead, he wanted to show how people continue to leave traces of their online activity when they don’t realise it.
“In this digital world, we leave footprints where we go, and when we do it, without even thinking about it,” he said in a Medium post. “Facebook might block this little ‘hack’, so your friends can no longer track you, but Facebook will always be able to do their own data analysis which is undoubtedly way better than what I’ve come up with.”
He told the Washington Post that Facebook was in touch with him, saying it violated its terms of service and to discourage others from using it.While he stopped using the tool himself, he hasn’t taken it down from GitHub, saying it’s the best way to raise awareness of the privacy at stake.
I’m not proud of people starting to spy on their friends, but maybe this can make everybody more aware of the consequences of our actions.
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Just another politician only interested in lining pockets with taxpayers money and does FA for people
@John Deane: Please ! There are better and easier ways for a man like him to line his pockets and make real money
@John Deane: You obviously don’t know many politicians if you think that.
Sure, his daddy voted for ff and his grandaddy too
@N D K: How do you know? Why would he, his father or grandfather vote SF?
@Vincent Alexander: but but but SF
@Michael Collins: Just to counteract the SF snide remarks.
Sadly politicians have little or no respect from the public anymore. Reason being their actions are not in accordance with the public good but instead self serving. The rot starts from the top. Don’t blame the working classes for burning out the Luas or looting shops when they see privileged classes lining their pockets.
@Johnny frankson: Working class??? The Canada Goose patriot brigade that set Dublin alight haven’t a job between them.
@Johnny frankson: yes it’s time to create a party for ourselves
@Dominic Leleu: the nuns and vicars party
@Johnny frankson: get up outta the garden. The s c u m class who never worked a day in their life rioted . Nothing to do with politicians or your betters . Mentalities like yours are contemptible, apologists for racist filth . You and your kind should and will be aggressively hunted down and made to disappear . Lunatic stuff
@Johnny frankson: Looting and burning buses, a Luas and Garda cars has nothing to do with politics.
It is people just doing as they please and not caring for anybody else.
I am working class and yet like most people was not out rioting and looting!
Did this lad forget to take his meds. FF party of the people, you mean shysters robbing the people, Haughey, Ahern gangsters and Mehole the bailout didn’t happen Martin.
@Daniel Gilroy: And Gerry the “Peace Maker Never in the IRA” still making money from over 1,700 killed by the PIRA.
@Vincent Alexander: what a load of horse manure ..
@Vincent Alexander: and the rest murdered by loyalists, ruc and brits. All started by loyalists aided by B Specials. South did 0 to help nationalists in the 6 counties. Left them high and dry.
@Mona Murphy: No reason to jeopardise the state by supporting terrorists.
@Daniel Gilroy: No, the party of the people, the party that people on the right and the left and centre will vote for . The people take actually contribute to society and not the oxygen stealers who offer and do nothing but parrot the same rubbish as the next man
@Mona Murphy: as usual , women talking out of turn talking nonsense . Ulster hid under the bed and did next to no fighting in 1916-1921. Happy to side with the Treaty and Collins and join the Free State army to kill good republicans . Cork IRA men were working in Tyrone during the Tan War , doing good . Come civil war they were seen as outsider and shot them . FF and the Irish people in general (that matter) never forgot and never forgave . You lot are nothing to do with us. Ye made your bed , now lie in it . Left hI’m go and dry lol what rubbish, you lot voted with the traitor Collins
Ha ha
And sure if you ever lose your seat you can go back working for Daddy.
id cross the road from you if I knew you voted for ff
Did FF pay for this piece?
FFG are like a festering mold rotting the country slowly over the past 100 years.
@H Woo: Festering mold!!!
@H Woo: You’re apathy for what these shysters inflicted upon the people of this country is very concerning. You’re either not the smartest or a me feiner, like most in FFG.
@Daniel Gilroy: Look north and tell us what have SF achieved.
@Vincent Alexander: They fought the British Empire to a stalemate and won the right to exist for the Catholic Population. .. I see your on one of your Loyalist/Unionist sour grapes tirade all over this article… GFA over 25 yrs and some of ye lot still can’t accept It. Your a worse bigot than Paisley.
@Vincent Alexander: Are you @ Tim Brennan in disguise or what Vincent? Fffg lovers are a kind of rope, a dope kinda thing. Maybe look in a mirror and tell us the real truth?
@Vincent Alexander: Look south and tell us what fffg has achieved!!
@Michael Collins: The murdering or disappearing of Catholics was not protecting them but control b terror.
@Paul Gorry: A good standard of living. By observing the traffic on the M1 there are a lot of Northerners enjoying the work opportunities in the South.
@Michael Collins: They murdered innocent children. I’m afraid that is not what any decent human can support.
@Daniel Gilroy: Yawn. The public vote for them for a reason
@Daniel Gilroy: and you are a loud mouth who wouldn’t have one original train of thought in your head . Labour and Workers party spent decades waffling about revolution and allegiance to Russian. The filth of SF spent decades pretending that the Irish State didn’t exist . While FF and FG and PD brought reforms and prosperity.
Just because you and your kind failed in life , don’t assume that the rest of the electorate share your warped views
What have you ever done ?
@Michael Collins: That is some revisionist nonsense . ORA were too busy worrying that their informer status with the British would be blown
lol. SDLP and John Hume won rights for Catholics while the IRA spent time intimidating Catholics .
Laughable for you comment with your hero being a traitor who convened the north to support the Treaty and join the IFS army
They turned their back on the republic , they have no right to claim that they were abandoned . Thye behaved like cowards in 1916-1921
Voted no on stopping the sale of Israeli War Bonds but I’m sure he’s a good lad in the community
@danny larkin: Shame he doesn’t have a conscience.
Don’t worry, your unvouched expenses will cover all your mortgage payments with plenty left over.The fact you joined a party who caused the housing problem and have absolutely no idea how to fix it while stating that housing is the biggest issue shows that nothing will change with you in that disgusting party.
@Gerry Lamont: Grow Every elected politician get the same expenses and add ons.
The whole Iot of them have their snouts in the trough
@Gerry Lamont: yes as long as it stays in the family.
Propaganda from the machine….puke it out,don’t lap it up
Is he a Teacher?
@Gerard Carey: after saying ‘ would have went’? I hope not!
Another crook in waiting
I’m not even that much older but jesus this guy is tone deaf.
A crupt west Brits like is leader
lol !
Obama !!!
Give us a break
Obama !!!
Give us a break
(A) look their brown envelope on my desk lots of cash in their and note write a juicy pro fffg story (B)should I go up up and check my managers bin bin for brown envelope because I really don’t like putting my name to such …….. story about fffg. signed Jane
A clone. Stood on my doorstep, told me one thing, and now say the complete opposite.
@phynes1: that’s what FFG do.
O Cuiv would be excellent. He has vast experience at home and abroad.
Very sure footed on the international stage. Very well respected across the country and and beyond including Northern Ireland ,England and United States.
@H Woo: Woo hoo, the same aul speil. Go lick a fffg politican. And throw a labour one in for dessert..
@padraig o heanachain: Too old school catholic FF and would not work with the younger people in the country.
Michael D did because he could talk to them and not lecture them.
Besides we don’t want another Dev i the Aras!
Only a Fianna Failer would name their son Albert.
Dear Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey! I have never read a less inspiring, less motivating and less original interview with any Irish politician – and that is saying something! This guy comes across as something fired in a mould in FF HQ. A sleeveen. The McDonalds of politics. No originality, no ideas except to promote the continuance of Ó Cuiv in our national politics. He doesn’t t want to pre-empt the outcome of the FF selection process for their Presidential candidate but happily tries to do so by pushing Ó Cuiv on us. Just try to get your head around the fact that this guy is costing us about €350,000 per year to represent us.
Wow, he’s so down to earth and cool. Great to see someone my age in politics, I think its really groovy. I’m totally going to vote for this guy and his party. He’s speaking about the issues that matter to me. He just gets it, y’know? What a great guy.
@Ekumbe Adesiyan: Absolutely.
@Ekumbe Adesiyan: he’s mugging you off mate, he may be giving handouts now and free houses but the country is falling apart
@Basildon Joe Top Boy: Yep
@Ekumbe Adesiyan: You’re a racist pıg troll.
What an interesting young man. Deeply rooted in politics from a young age and then followed through… Well done..
It’s a shame we have some comments here denouncing this young lad, all coming from one type of click… Regardless of his affection to a certain party, his enthusiasm shines through. I sincerely hope he rises and shines not only in his particular party , but in politics in general.
@Blue Moon: and this is why we are screwed
@Blue Moon: his enthusiasm certainly shone through when he voted down banning the sale of Israeli war bonds. I hope he likes blood on his hands.
To quote the Great Joe Dolan (not the Mulligar moron)
Oh Mrs. Dylan, your son he isn’t working!
@Padraig O’Brien: shameful comment,Mullingar joe Dolan achieved far more than you have,and your ma probably fancied him as well
Top man Albert Dolan.
Jb Walshe. What exactly did Mullingar Joe Dolan “achieve”?
The best of luck to him
Once a ff politician gets elected history has shown all aspirations go out the window when they get a taste of the gravy train
Yikes
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