How to map the social connection of some person?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Do you know that Putin is three clicks away from you at the social media? This thing is investigated by some university, and that conclusion bases the claiming, that every person on earth would be two or three person thread from everybody, who uses social media. This thing makes us think, that in almost every person's social media network is some kind of intelligence officer.

Those officials serving for intelligence or police, and those persons mission is to find out drug dealers and other people, who are making criminal activities. The data, what is connected is problematic because it will uncover the real interests, what the users of the social media have. And the thing is, that connecting the information, what is collected from different sources can be used to make a very good profile of the targeted person.

And don't think, that if you have to pay for some solution makes it safe. Many of the solutions are free for private users, and that helps to control the sources, what are used to collecting information. Because firms must pay for the solution, that would allow filtering that kind of users away from the tracking lists. This means that intelligence services can target the tracking to private users or firms if the firmware solution is used for illegal activities.

There are many ways to investigate the social connections in social media, and one of them is to send the circular letter to that person and ask to deliver that message to all the social connections. The best way to make this thing working perfectly is to use some texts, what are very sensitive or makes need to show empathy. This is the best way to make people deliver those texts to other persons. This makes the social media very interesting place. And if someone would not want to deliver those circular letters, that will make this person sadistic and cold person in the eyes of other users of the social media.

So this is the short and sad story about the way, to find out the persons, who are members of some community. There is nothing wrong about the circular letters and some kind of stuff. But there is one very disturbing thing. They are always so sensitive, that they are going to disturb me, and the things, that some person would die in cancer are very sad. Sometimes there are asked money by using that kind of pictures and stories. And at the same time, they are causing negative for the people, who really need help, and here I'm writing about cases, where that kind of letters are shared because somebody wants to map the social connections. Those methods are strictly against the ethics and moral of the scientific work. And they are causing problems for people, who are in real trouble.