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Help me graduate!
« on: December 08, 2009, 11:54:53 PM »
Hi everybody!
I would like to request everyone's assistance in completing the requirements for my graduation in a timely fashion. I have to collect data to use in my thesis. The data will be absolutely anonymous and no one will be able to tell who responded with what. What I would like is for everyone to go to my site linked below, read the most recent post, and complete the very short 2 question survey at the bottom! Feel free to pass this along to others, the more responses I get, the more accurate my study is! Your assistance in my graduation is greatly appreciated!

My research is related to the ACLU of Northern California's Facebook quiz that helped spur a change in the way Facebook handled the level of access it granted to applications as opposed to user accounts. This is basically the first step into my masters and finishing that nasty little research requirement for my undergrad. I realize this is kinda spammy and such, and I apologize, but I do it with the best intentions and I mean no disrespect to this community of which I hang my hat.

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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2009, 10:01:57 AM »
No problem, took it and will pass it on.

You sure get to study interesting stuff. Computer sciences, back in the day when it was my major, was boring.
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2009, 10:28:20 AM »
Also took it.  Good luck with your research.  This is similar to some of the research my wife's been doing for some of her graduate work.
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2009, 11:54:53 AM »
Oh? Would it be possible to share some more of the details concerning her research? I'd love to talk to other people doing things similar to my stuff.
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2009, 12:26:14 PM »
She's written some papers on online privacy, though probably not as in-depth as what you're doing.  Most of her heavy research is on "the digital divide", though, not security.
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2009, 02:04:05 PM »
Done
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2009, 02:18:45 PM »
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2009, 03:30:14 PM »
...and passed on at my facebook wall.
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2009, 04:00:21 PM »
I took it, but I don't have a facebook account so I answered as if I had an account in theory.

Social networking sites like facebook and myspace are horrible, horrible things and I will never bring myself to use them.
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2009, 04:24:14 PM »
Thank you all! And future thanks to those who do it after this post. I have 64 responses right now, which is fantastic. The more the merrier of course but it's been out for less than 24 hours. I'm at a 31% response rate from those that I personally sent it out to which is amazing for surveys from what I understand so this is going really well and I really appreciate everyone's help.

My original vision was really fraking nifty if I do say so my self, but sadly the niftyness of it was countered by the massive scale of it, so this is basically phase 1. The next part is what I think will perk even more interest. I'm writing a facebook app that will actually collect the user data in a demonstration, and ask the user whether or not the data is accurate. If they say yes it is accurate I take them at face value, but then I check back later using the app with its inherent permissions to check and see if they've changed their information at all. I will then ask those people who changed their data why they did so. What I'm looking for is misinformation on the original information collected. I then try and validate the claim through other resources like Maltego, Myspace, Spokeo, pipl, etc. If either the new or old information can be validated through third party sources, I can use the statistics to generate a level of confidence of which can be applied to the information on a persons social networking profile. This will give law enforcement an idea of how trustworthy the info can be, and the techniques will be validated through the study and tell me how many different places I have to look before the info is correct enough. Then the techniques can be verifiable and used for social network analysis for future research or investigation :)

So yeah, big dreams, and lots of baby steps to go.
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2009, 04:45:13 PM »
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2009, 08:28:38 PM »
I built that in to the whole future plans thing, eventually I'm going to need Facebook's cooperation, and hopefully under the flag of academia it will be a fairly painless process.
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Re: Help me graduate!
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2009, 08:47:42 PM »
I completed the survey as well.
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