Wall posts can be hidden from others’ newsfeeds through privacy settings; other things can’t. The data for wall posts is therefore less reliable than other data if one were to assume that gay and straight people employ privacy settings at different rates, which I think would be a fair assumption to make. Maybe I’ll figure out a way to look into that for a future post, although I’m having trouble thinking of a method to do that without violating Facebook’s terms of service. Suggestions?

Please get a job. In the meantime, this was fantastic.

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I’m 100% sure that was the case with the old layout, which would have made this difficult. It doesn’t seem to be the case anymore with the new layout, which is why they have made the options to make filters and to hide certain people so prominent.

And just so you know, you’re in the teal bars, not the raspberry shaded ones.

I thought that facebook newsfeed was adaptive? I am pretty sure facebook keeps track of whose profiles and stories you click on the most, and then applies a weighting based on that to the otherwise random smattering of stories that appear in a user’s newsfeed.

I thought that was the case, but maybe I made that up?

If this is true, then the results would indicate that you spend more time checking the profiles of the facebook gays than the facebook straights.