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Did YOU change your Facebook picture to a rainbow flag? (psychological test)
Daily Mail ^ | 07/01/15 | y Ellie Zolfagharifard

Posted on 07/01/2015 10:43:47 AM PDT by Enlightened1

The Atlantic speculated Facebook is using it to monitor how views spread

But Facebook has denied using it to collect user data on behavior

The site has previously come under fire for altered the news feeds of almost 700,000 users in a huge psychological data experiment

Your Facebook feed is probably looking a little more colourful this week.

In celebration of the Supreme Court's approval of same-sex marriage, the site is offering users a tool to overlay their profile photos with a rainbow filter.

More than 26 million people changed their profile pictures using Facebook's rainbow filter to show their support for the LGBTQ community since the tool launched on Friday.

But while it may seem like Facebook's intentions are noble, some reports claim the social network may be carrying out another psychological test on its users.

The reports were sparked by a throwaway comment by MIT network scientist Cesar Hidalgo on Facebook.

He joked: 'This is probably a Facebook experiment!'

'The question is, how long will it take for people to change their profile pictures back to normal.'

This led Atlantic to speculate that by setting up its own tool to let people filter their profile picture, Facebook could gain unprecedented insight into how to influence people.

Facebook, however, immediately denied the claims.

A spokesperson for the site told DailyMail.com: 'This was not an experiment or test, but rather something that enables people to show their support of the LGBTQ community on Facebook.

'The point of this tool is not to get information about people.'

But, as a report in the Atlantic out, the site has long been involved in research to better see how information spreads in a social network.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: facebook; gay; homosexualagenda; libertarians; marriage; medicalmarijuana; obamanation; psychological
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To: Enlightened1

I mistakenly decided to go ahead and watch PBS’ FRONTLINE last night about Trans-Gender children. I have never in all my life seen such a horrifying nightmare world. The future is not a Marxist one, it’s just plain madness.

Liberal Moms and all their brilliance completely placating their infants gender whims. Encouraging their children to live out whatever momentary gender curiosity their second-grader thought at the moment.

There were only two Fathers on the show. Both clearly against what was happening to their boy or girl. Just completely bulldozed by the wife and the “professionals” they took the children to see.

Middle-School kids taking puberty blockers and hormones, completely annihilating their bodies before they’ve even discovered what they are attracted to sexually. Complicit butchery from the medical establishment. A budding industry of Medical staffers and Homosexual Psychologists creating life long Cosmetic Surgery Drag outfits these poor children will never escape.

No one, ever telling them that it is IMPOSSIBLE to actually transform your gender in any measurable way. Just modern Californians gluing beards on their daughters and taping boobs on their boys.

The most nightmarishly sick society to have ever existed in all of human history.


21 posted on 07/01/2015 11:07:47 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Enlightened1

Facebook is just one of “the marks of the Beast”


22 posted on 07/01/2015 11:08:06 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: concerned about politics

Haven’t used FB in many years. After I got my killer drum set I wanted to show it off though.


23 posted on 07/01/2015 11:09:23 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: Enlightened1

I did not change any picture...

I challenged a “friend” who posted the rainbow WH pic...told her that it was an act of a petulant child wanting to be king and a slap in the face to every American who held either an ambivalent or opposing view of the despicable decision by SCROTUS.

She apologized.


24 posted on 07/01/2015 11:09:54 AM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: concerned about politics

I email and I text...only friends. My name and face is not out there in public for all to see. I realize this isn’t 100% secure, but what goes out and what comes in makes it about as secure as one can get


25 posted on 07/01/2015 11:10:35 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: The Toll

All the alternate life-forms are just useful idiots to the NWO.

End game: lower population. Genetic dead-ends are great for that.


26 posted on 07/01/2015 11:11:11 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: MplsSteve

I blocked everyone I knew who went by the name “Christian” and put up the flag.

Can’t feel the same level of animosity towards someone that identifies herself as an atheist. How could they know better?


27 posted on 07/01/2015 11:13:13 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: US Navy Vet

I had one person who had a rainbow and they we deleted right away.


28 posted on 07/01/2015 11:13:16 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Mich Patriot

As did I.


29 posted on 07/01/2015 11:13:21 AM PDT by siamesecats (God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
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To: madison10

deleted the person who had a rainbow and good riddance.


30 posted on 07/01/2015 11:13:58 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Mich Patriot

same here.


31 posted on 07/01/2015 11:14:36 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Enlightened1

Not only did it identify supporters, it identified people who did not “choose” the rainbow, so they can be targeted by supporters.


32 posted on 07/01/2015 11:15:28 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We've seen this before. There's a master race. Now there's a master faith." Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: Enlightened1

What’s been so funny to see is how MANY of my liberal friends have changed their profile pictures BACK because of this story!! #theyareparanoidoffacebooktoo


33 posted on 07/01/2015 11:15:33 AM PDT by browniexyz
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

“No I didn’t. Further, I have no FaceBook page.”

You and me both.


34 posted on 07/01/2015 11:15:43 AM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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To: donna

Good. Divine intervention is one of those small details in my prayers.


35 posted on 07/01/2015 11:16:08 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: Uncle Miltie

There is a way to do that, too. Not sure if is from FB or an outside site.


36 posted on 07/01/2015 11:16:15 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: US Navy Vet
NO and I “Blocked” AND “Defriended” EVERYONE that I saw that DID

That was probably tracked as part of the "test", too.

37 posted on 07/01/2015 11:16:38 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Enlightened1
Just what is this "Facebook" thing I keep hearing about?

Do they sell it on Amazon? Is it worth reading?

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

38 posted on 07/01/2015 11:17:51 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: brivette

I’m gad they flagged themselves. It immediately identifies who not to add, who to unfriend, and saves me arguments / heart problems.


39 posted on 07/01/2015 11:17:59 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Vaquero
I email and I text...only friends. My name and face is not out there in public for all to see. I realize this isn’t 100% secure, but what goes out and what comes in makes it about as secure as one can getYeah.

Same here. Very few phone calls (use a track phone because I don't need anything else)

We see the Antichrist all around us today. The trick is to not let the Antichrist see you.

The more information they have, the more power they have. Things like FB give them everything they need. They can use one picture to find you, or one post to destroy you (Like the cop who lost his job for wearing confederate flag underwear in a FB photo )

40 posted on 07/01/2015 11:18:06 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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