The Globe covers a mildly interesting project by two MIT students that purports to predict a person's sexual orientation based on their Facebook friends. The pedantic language of this story is annoying and it would be a stretch to call it somewhat relevant. Makes me wonder what other more fascinating, more important projects are going on at MIT and aren't getting ink.

As someone who has not succumbed to social media and has concerns about their value, this article points out another reason to question their worth. There is nothing factual about them and now we found out they tell more about us than we planned.

Reports on an MIT student project to apply data mining to Facebook to find out more about people than they are willing to post in their profiles. Interesting results but a pretty light report. The warnings concerning unanticipated breaches of privacy cover familiar ground.

This was a good story to report on because it relates to the hot topics of privacy and social networking. The piece is clear and informative in reporting the story; however, it could have included more about how the social networkers felt about "Project Gaydar." By including the reactions the LGBT community, I believe it would have added more to the argument of how it raised new questions about online privacy.

Yes because you learn something new about Facebook which might makes other people not want to have a Facebook at all.

Hard to tell what the facts are on the criteria for "gaydar". Would be more inclined to beleive if they could publish some real examples and criteria that were used to correlate information used to predict social behaviour