FaceBook gives "Politico" access to your personal information.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users’ Political Sentiments

January 12, 2012 at 11:02 am Liz Gannes

Counting Twitter mentions would have you believe that Ron Paul is the most popular Republican candidate in the ongoing U.S. primaries. Umm, right.

But some social media analysis of politics is going beyond that. A partnership between Facebook and Politico announced today is one of the more far-reaching efforts. It will consist of sentiment analysis reports and voting-age user surveys, accompanied by stories by Politico reporters.

Most notably, the Facebook-Politico data set will include Facebook users’ private status messages and comments. While that may alarm some people, Facebook and Politico say the entire process is automated and no Facebook employees read the posts.

Rather, every post and comment — both public and private — by a U.S. user that mentions a presidential candidate’s name will be fed through a sentiment analysis tool that spits out anonymized measures of the general U.S. Facebook population.

This is similar to the way Google offers reports on search trends based on its users’ aggregate search activities.

Please see the disclosure about Facebook in my ethics statement.

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People using Facebook would be well advised to calculate the loss of privacy concerning this invasion by Facebook and Politico before continuing with this area of social media networking.

[Darlene Littlejohn]

Teresa... if you go missing, I will probably be missing too.  Not only are my kids raised, but the grandkids are mostly grown too.

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

We shall do what we say . . . . and say what we do . . . . but not at the same time.

[Teresa Smith]

Philip, I already faced them two years ago, they were at my home in S. Florida they infiltrated a "meeting" I had. So be it. They never learned anything of use. Questions kept comming but no answers given. If all we do is write and moan and groan and not step forward to try to make a difference then what the hecks the use. Like I said, Im not raising a family anymore and I have nothing to loose, how much more can we Americans take? Our liberty and Justice is just about gone. Wake up....wake up. If I made you chuckle good and If I can wake up someone who is asleep....better. I will bet we have four more years of this " dear leader". Voter fraud #1, HOW long should we wait to speak up? Tea Parties did nothing they just called us raciest, voting did nothing, New Speaker of the House is a waste. Congress is useless, signing stupid bills to arrest Americans and allow Beastially and on and on. Im sick and furious aka or is it fast and furious? Just tired of the crap so what say you and what shall we do?

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Teresa you make me chuckle. That's a hard line you're taking . . . . against Obama and the dept of Homeland Security which/who is a political arm of "Politico".

[Teresa Smith]

Good they then know how I feel. I only post Government things on there and nothing personal.....they know right where I stand....so If I go missing, It is because they must fear my posts about this evil government and their Agenda. Im getting older my kids are raised if its time to check out so be it, if I can wake up one person it will be worth it.