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What Facebook 'Likes' Say About You

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    FBN's Shibani Joshi on what Facebook 'likes' can reveal about your personality.

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Sooner rather than later.

In vent light something on FaceBook may mean more than just a thumbs up Shibani Joshi is here to explain -- -- this is that an interesting one -- be careful what you like that's a major take away from -- -- study they came out from the University of Cambridge and Microsoft research.

-- in fact they worry able to conduct a massive study at 58000.

People on FaceBook.

Looking at the things that they liked in the things that they -- activity overall on the social networking site and what they found was pretty astounding in that.

Even you -- certain things about your identity -- that based on your liking activity -- -- able to learn a whole lot from you.

-- -- things that they are able to glean out of your liking activity as a whole they can -- things like whether or not he smokes cigarettes you drank alcohol whether you're Democrat or Republican.

Even whether or not you're a male or female again this is not even then people putting up on there FaceBook site -- whether or not they are female -- -- they just looked at them like kept being able to figure that out -- some of these connections should Bonnie.

Seems pretty random right to make conclusions about people is that what you're getting -- here yeah sort of stuff for the able it is crazy the -- -- -- they conclusions they were able to drive based on with the things -- each acting like to you didn't like.

Basically here's an example if you like but Oklahoma State University if you like the bachelor if you like ES -- Data shows that your are conservative.

Also very -- -- -- use things about your intelligence -- they think that -- smarter you have a higher IQ if you like things like.

-- -- -- Out -- other rings and even Morgan Freeman's voice now the fear -- is that.

That employers are other outsiders may use this data and information against you for evil and not for good and if you wanna check out what.

FaceBook and what can be learned about you're liking behavior you can go to what are you like dot com you are what you -- dot com that is the website you are what you like dot com.

And you can show you can figure out what the world already sees about you just -- heavy and that profile ISI get married -- -- I explored -- rings a lot.

Think he's got sent me an ironic right right exactly the -- up our.

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