What are the hours of sleep of your friends? Facebook gives you the answer – EN Official

his name is Soren Louv-Jansen, is Danish and with a simple tool (Facebook) determined sleep patterns of your friends. With some reliability, the developer entered the private life of the people is on the social network. And what happened? Of course: it is the old question of privacy …

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A Danish managed to meet the sleep patterns of your friends, using only the activity of these on Facebook. From this information, Soren Louv-Jansen has created a tool that has a sufficiently high degree of reliability to bring those responsible for the network in an uproar.

The programmer Soren Louv-Jansen came from a habit created by the overwhelming majority of social network users: before going to sleep consultation is the feed, as in just after waking. If Facebook determines these intervals of sleep, our habits, and this activity is published, you can see the next chapter of this story

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Facebook notes the activity of its users and displays this information, for example, Messenger. The Louv-Jansen tool collects this data automatically and creates the sleep patterns of those who use the social network.

That Danish computer expert said the tool “worked extremely well” in 30 percent of your friends. And so Soren learned that the sleep habits of your friends are “irregular”. Monday to Friday, there are rules, but at the weekend are completely random.

The project took only six months to complete. Few people gave relevance when it was released last December. But as time goes by more and more users turn to it, according writes The Washington Post.

“People should be aware of everything they do” in social networks, because they “are not alone.” “Someone is always looking at us. I do not mean that Facebook is evil, but this is an effect of those who use the social network “, emphasizes Søren Louv-Jansen, which has raised the old issue of privacy.

Soren released the tool on GitHub, last December, and a publication that made the social network Medium has over 200,000 views. The application is already used by over a thousand people, a number that swells with the media attention that was granted, thanks, above all, this article in The Washington Post.

According to the US newspaper , Facebook will have contacted the Danish, in order to discourage Soren to disclose that application, which invades the privacy of social network users.

in any case, our activity on Facebook is public and, within that perspective if we are to privacy is best not to use the social network

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