Study finds Facebook status updates can possibly be used to predict users with certain diseases, especially diabetes and mental health conditions
At its core, Facebook is a giant repository of information about the people who use it, from their age and phone number, to their music preferences … Tweets: @edbott , @yoda , and @prsarahevans Tweets: Ed Bott / @edbott : Or maybe Facebook status updates CAN'T reliably identify people with health condition. But that won't stop third parties from making and using those unreliable connections. Which is a problem. https://twitter.com/... Drew Olanoff / @yoda : So let me get this straight. Facebook, which absolutely exacerbates mental illness, can predict that users have a mental illness. That's like saying McDonalds can predict which customers aren't healthy. https://twitter.com/... Sarah Evans / @prsarahevans : STUDY: Facebook status updates can possibly predict users with 🦠Diabetes 👶 Pregnancy 🕳 Anxiety 🧬 Psychoses ❤️ Chronic pulmonary disease 💊 Drug abuse 🍷 Alcohol abuse 😔 Depression (@hannakozlowska / Quartz) https://twitter.com/...