I once managed a Facebook account on behalf of someone else. Normally, you would expect this to confuse Facebook greatly. Instead the opposite happened: Whenever I was logged in as them, Facebook recommended me people that they knew.

This means you can find out who someone knows if (a) they’re not already a Facebook user, and (b) you create a profile for them. Whoopsie.

I kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating, which of course is derived from their family history. We’re all reduced to numbers in the end.

hyper-reality: https://vimeo.com/166807261