Facebook might shortly tell if we are abounding or poor

Facebook has filed a obvious focus for a record that will automatically detect a users’ socio-economic standing and sequester them in one of 3 classes – operative class, center category or top class

Mark Zuckerberg. Pic/AFP
Mark Zuckerberg. Pic/AFP

Facebook has filed a obvious focus for a record that will automatically detect a users’ socio-economic standing and sequester them in one of 3 classes – operative class, center category or top class. According to a patent, a amicable media hulk wants to build a complement that collects users’ personal data, such as education, homeownership and internet usage, in sequence to envision their socio-economic status, a Dailymail reported.

The patent, that was done open on Friday, suggested an algorithm that competence urge Facebook’s targeting capabilities, assisting it offer adult some-more applicable advertisements to users. “By presaging a socio-economic groups of users, [Facebook] is means to assistance a third celebration benefaction sponsored calm to a aim users,” a obvious read.

Facebook would ask a users what is their age and from there, it would chuck questions that would be applicable to users of that age group. “In a filing, 20 to 30-year-olds are asked how many Internet inclination they own, while 30 to 40-year-olds are asked either or not they possess a house,” a news said. However, it is still misleading if a obvious will ever indeed be used for user targeting.

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