Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook Romance | Obama Social Media Hacked

Facebook research shows romantic relationships through links. President Barack Obama's Facebook, Twitter accounts hacked. These stories and more, in today's Morning Social Media Newsfeed.

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Researchers Draw Romantic Insights from Maps of Facebook Networks (The New York Times/Bits Blog)
It’s not in the stars after all. Instead, it seems, the shape of a person’s social network is a powerful signal that can identify one’s spouse or romantic partner — and even if a relationship is likely to break up. Quartz In a fascinating paper to be published next year, Facebook social scientist Lars Backstrom and Cornell University professor Jon Kleinberg reveal just how much insight can be gleaned from the structure of a network, illustrating both the value of what the American security establishment reassures us is “just metadata” and revealing Facebook’s baroque privacy settings as the faith-based garments of the emperor’s new clothes.

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