Facebook has gone way far on exposing people’s ideals and interests. The power of posting updates of a person’s daily life to criticizing others’ posts led to the discovery of a new online app to reveal ones’ personality.
A very powerful tool to introduce to the public, the Apply Special Sauce, details a user’s way of thinking through the recorded likes he has done on his/her feed. It is like an EQ Test but replacing the actual test questions.
Michal Kosinki, an assistant professor in organizational behaviour at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, developed an app that could analyse a person based on the ‘likes’. His motive is to let the users check on how distinctive their social media actions can be. For instance, the tool could determine ones’ psychological gender, sexual orientation, personality (i.e. Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), intelligence, life satisfaction, political orientation, religious orientation, education and civil status.
These psychometric tests tend to revolutionize how Facebook could become a person’s living storybook, where he/she is the main character of a chaotic yet satisfying world of ventures.
I, myself, had a try and I was surprised seeing accurate results. It is safe to say that the level of how these personality, satisfaction and psychometric tests are carefully interpreted in the way the takers could understand and accept fully.
How to Take the Test?
First is you have to go to University of Cambridge The Psychometrics Centre’s AMS official website and click “Predict My Profile.” The description, as displayed on the site, says:
“Click on Predict My Profile to receive an instant prediction of your psycho-demographic profile based on your Facebook Likes. Our models were built using actual psychological data and social media profiles from over 6 million people, allowing us to accurately predict a range of traits without asking you any questions. We share anonymised samples of this data with academics in order to support high-quality research into online behaviour, resulting in over 40 journal publications since 2011.”
There, you will be transferred to a follow-up site where you have to log in to submit your Facebook Likes so they may view the API output. According to the side, “This is a prediction of your psycho-demographic profile based on your Facebook Likes. It uses a snapshot of your digital footprint to visualise how others perceive you online and therefore may not be an entirely accurate picture of who you really are.”
Facebook Hacking: A Crisis inside Social Media Details
Many of the Facebook users nowadays tend to set their posts to public viewing – meaning, everyone can see it without any security. The fact that these some details are visible to strangers who might review the user’s file could not just destroy personal accounts, but to also end lives.
Reza Moaiandin, a software engineer, has acquired details, photos, locations and even mobile numbers of strangers with the use of algorithms and search engines. By the use of inserting mobile numbers on the search bar, a person could possibly be found together with the pieces of information available for public viewing.
How It All Started for Moaiandin:
“A few months ago, I discovered a security loophole in Facebook that allows hackers to decrypt and sniff out Facebook user IDs using one of Facebook’s APIs in bulk – therefore allowing them to gather millions of users’ personal data (name, telephone number, location, images, and more). This post is an attempt to catch Facebook’s attention to get this issue fixed.
Through this, a hacker can then communicate with Facebook’s GraphQL to get as many details as possible, by passing the hashed ID.
By using a script, an entire country’s (I tested with the US, the UK and Canada) possible number combinations can be run through these URLs, and if a number is associated with a Facebook account, it can then be associated with a name and further details (images, and so on),” according to Salt Agency blog post; citing source.
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