Facebook bidrager til social forskning

Forskere har kastet sig over Facebook, hvor man bl.a. kan sammenligne sin smag i musik og film med sine venner:

"We're harvesting information from Facebook. We have all the information on an entire class of students. We are gathering that data and transforming it into a dataset that can be easily used for all kinds of analysis" said Andreas Wimmer, professor of Sociology at UCLA.

Læs mere hos BBC: Researchers plunder social networks.