Just heard on the AngryGeek podcast that initially there was a report that average age of people on MySpace are above 35. Then they slowly got suspicious that a lot of the kids that register to fake their information, specially their age.

I have often noticed that people on Flickr try to challenge the default registration interface, by either not using some of the fields, or enter wrong information in them. They actually put some right information about themselves inside the “Profile” text box where database cannot easily collect specific stats about people’s age, gender, or whether they are single or in a relationship. People know they are giving away information to big brother, or some large incorporation, so by producing NOISE in creative ways they challenge the integrity of the data they are providing.

I’ve always thought that one way to beat the RFID technology embedded in many of the future products, is that people create and spread lots of fake RFID tags which broadcast false information, in that way the correct information will be lost in the NOISE. It would be the matter of time and very easy for some tech savy people to start a cult of fake RFID producers, and I’m sure many will follow.

Do you think those kind of information have any value for the Marketing Agents who monitor and collect these kind of information on Social Networking website, or tagged products?

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