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RE: New Media Psychology Digest #20180113
Really enjoy this post, everything about technology gets my attention, It grows so fast that it is very difficult to keep us updated. But about what can your picture say about yourself:
" People with high conscientiousness scores, for example, tended to show themselves on their own rather than in groups, and to express positive emotions in their pics. Those who scored as very open seemed to prefer artistic photos. Neurotic people tended strongly not to have their face visible at all." say one of the articles that you quote... make me think
how far we are from classifying a person by his profile picture?? Are we making this yet?? Sometimes I think we are. Very interesting post.
@nowonline thank you for your feedback. Much appreciated.
As for the post, yes we are going toward the quantified Self theory, a Self we extract from our data such as our smartwatches data, but not only.
Everything about ourselves has a quantity and a measure nowadays, so do our feelings and emotions.
And as the research goes on, we are able to extract more and more inner data from our expressions, gestures, etc.
Algorithms extract our data from our social streams too.
The result?
A new algorithm aiming to extract our personality from our face and match it with job offers, so that recruiters can focus only on the selected people.
Some Companies analyse our social streams to extract our personality and match it with their job offers.
Both of these technologies are already running.
It´s amazing, I´ve heard about it but I didnt know it is already running. Even thought I love all of this, don´t you wonder ... how can you measure a feeling?? from 1 to 10? how do you know ¨"your 10" is the same "10" of your brother or most close friend? if the photo the computer is analizing was taken in a " bad day" it will define your future job?? we´ll see.
I believe thecnology is an extra hand for humanity, to help us be better in every way, but we have to stay alert , we run the risk of losing our own humanity.
I´ll be ready to read your next post. You just won a follower...