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Facebook Quiz creation tasks Amazon Mechanical Turk.... evil...
AAAARRGGGHHH! Facebook has been ruined by these ridiculous quizzes (“which city are you?” “which muppet are you?” “which LOST character are you” and many, many more). Now I understand why there’s so many!
The proliferation of these quizzes is either a stroke of genius or evil… or both. Thousands and thousands of users are answering intimate questions about their likes & dislikes, and who ends up with all that data? What can they do with this data? Does anyone even realize that all answer data is being harvested?
Here’s a screen-shot for those of you without MTurk accounts:
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