
#50: What marketers can learn from your Facebook profile
<p>What is the best way to learn about someone's personality without meeting them. Is it by talking to their spouse? Or is it by looking at their Facebook profile? Research suggests that Facebook knows more about our personality than our closest loved ones. Data about each of us on Facebook can be used to predict our behavior helping marketers learn what we buy, what we like, and what we believe. But how much of this is science fiction? To figure that out, I chat with Patrick Fagan, former Lead Psychologist at Cambridge Analytica about the power of online data.</p> <p><a href=" https://amzn.to/3pihg4d">Patrick's book #Hooked: https://amzn.to/3pihg4d</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.patrickfagan.co.uk/">Patrick's website: https://www.patrickfagan.co.uk/</a></p> <p><a href="https://science-of-marketing.teachable.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Science of Marketing Course: https://scienceofmarketing.teachable.com</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.nudgepodcast.com/mailing-list" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sign up to the Nudge Mailing list: www.nudgepodcast.com/mailing-list</a></p>
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Show Notes
What is the best way to learn about someone's personality without meeting them. Is it by talking to their spouse? Or is it by looking at their Facebook profile? Research suggests that Facebook knows more about our personality than our closest loved ones. Data about each of us on Facebook can be used to predict our behavior helping marketers learn what we buy, what we like, and what we believe. But how much of this is science fiction? To figure that out, I chat with Patrick Fagan, former Lead Psychologist at Cambridge Analytica about the power of online data.
Patrick's book #Hooked: https://amzn.to/3pihg4d
Patrick's website: https://www.patrickfagan.co.uk/
The Science of Marketing Course: https://scienceofmarketing.teachable.com
Sign up to the Nudge Mailing list: www.nudgepodcast.com/mailing-list