I'm not a frequent Facebook user but I log in at least once a day. The first person on my list is a girl I am dating who is about a -2. I am the second person on my list also at about -2. About 30 more people have a negative number. The remaining people (about 500) are all a positive number. I don't even know who many of the people are at the bottom of my list.
It is interesting to note however that my brother is a frequent Facebook user and his first person on his list ranks at about a -26, and EVERY SINGLE person in his graph is assigned a negative number. Despite this, he still doesn't know who a lot of the people are on the bottom of his list.
Other things I noticed:
- Some people that I barely even know but just became friends with are ranking highly on my list. I imagine this is because I probably viewed a bunch of their pictures after being friends, combined with the fact that I don't often view profiles of people I am friends with.
- Some of my more recently added friends have the same exact value.
I wonder how much information could be extracted about the algorithm by creating a dummy community of people and connecting them together, then recording the results. I imagine much of the algorithm could be reverse engineered by this if anybody were up to the task. I will probably work on it if nobody else does and publish my findings.
EDIT: Explained what I was trying to say better, fixed grammar.
It is interesting to note however that my brother is a frequent Facebook user and his first person on his list ranks at about a -26, and EVERY SINGLE person in his graph is assigned a negative number. Despite this, he still doesn't know who a lot of the people are on the bottom of his list.
Other things I noticed: - Some people that I barely even know but just became friends with are ranking highly on my list. I imagine this is because I probably viewed a bunch of their pictures after being friends, combined with the fact that I don't often view profiles of people I am friends with.
- Some of my more recently added friends have the same exact value.
I wonder how much information could be extracted about the algorithm by creating a dummy community of people and connecting them together, then recording the results. I imagine much of the algorithm could be reverse engineered by this if anybody were up to the task. I will probably work on it if nobody else does and publish my findings.
EDIT: Explained what I was trying to say better, fixed grammar.