[jonpeda]

People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?

[mcintyre1994]

They said they'll use it to support their 'personal analytics' programme [0], which is free via wolframalpha.com - I don't see how this data would help with Mathematica or anything else they charge for?

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/

[maxerickson]

They are using it for marketing.

(I mean the post is what it is, I don't mean to whine about it)

[programnature]

Wolfram must have have built something people want, are willing to pay for, and even like ?

[susi22]

Even though WA is closed source and for-profit, I few them (and the company) as a kind of fellow scientist and not the evil big corporation (like oracle, microsoft etc.).

It all depends who ask for my data.

[stared]

It is data already on Facebook, so why are you so picky with sharing it further? (Or rather - criticizing people who do so.)

Especially, as one can get some nice plots back (also - personal).

[qq66]

People donated their data so that a blog post like this could be written. Mission accomplished, I guess.

[hammock]

It's taking advantage of non-public Facebook data, which is closed anyway. So, your data is now being used by two places instead of one. More open.

[misiti3780]

i was thinking the same thing ..