But the problem is that as Facebook continues to grow and evolve, we're getting more and more requests from random people that we don't actually know.
The point is simply this: even very good polls can have more random noise than people usually realize.
Here, in contrast, the feeling is of a larger, more random group of people seeking a place for themselves in a society that was already established: a place to work, raise a family, keep a cat.
Easier said than done, probably, but what's the downside to having fewer robotic interactions, to having more people -- even random people -- find you interesting?
I couldn't help but think that Greg's suggestion might lead to more random suspicion of Polish people who happen to be hanging out in parks.
If his team could so easily "infer sensitive personal information," he says, marketers could someday use more invasive techniques to identify random people on the street along with, say, their credit scores.
This sounds like an easy question but, more often than not, two random people from an organization will give two different answers to that question.
It can definitely be helpful, and in some ways makes more narrative sense than having random people call you or bump into you just to tell you some small thing about this particular fork in the road.
For those of you who want even more in common with the random people you meet through your mobile device, the new Tinder update will have a major revamp of its relevancy algorithm and add some key new features.
I discovered that we may share a forebear, five generations beyond our great-grandparents, making us only slightly more closely related than any two random people.
