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August 11, 2011 05:05 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Tb8b7ICUmmQ/Researcher-Predicts-Your-Next-Facebook-Friend
Researcher Predicts Your Next Facebook Friend
itwbennett writes "Stanford professor Jure Leskovec knows who your friends will be before you've even met them and has won a Microsoft fellowship for his analysis. 'Data shows that who will be our next friend on Facebook is not so random as we think,' he said. Based on information about the personal networks of users and their communication he was able to tell in advance half of the new contacts they would add shortly after. In the future the rate of correctly predicted new friends could be even higher, he said. 'We are able to train the analyzing methods,' Leskovec said." 
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