You connect groups that wouldn't otherwise interact. Your messaging spans multiple distinct social clusters -- family, professional networks, neighborhood groups, and close friendships -- and you actively cross-pollinate between them. Remove you, and clusters lose contact with each other.
Your messages reveal a clear arc: early platform years show high energy and social excitement, followed by a period of professional intensity, a grief event that reshapes your tone, and a gradual shift toward grounded warmth.
Your public posts emphasize achievement and positivity. Your private messages reveal vulnerability, doubt, and the care work that never made it to the feed.
2,847 posts across 16 years. Dominant themes: professional milestones, travel, family celebrations. Tone skews aspirational and curated. Political content appears briefly in 2017-2018, then disappears.
14,231 messages. Dominant themes: childcare logistics, financial stress, health concerns, supporting friends through crises. The founder identity that dominates posts is barely mentioned privately after 2021.
Your comments and messages reveal consistent prosocial patterns: crisis response, event organizing, resource sharing, and introducing people across groups.
842 connections. But only 194 ever exchanged more than a handful of messages. Here is what Dunbar's number looks like in your data.
| Intimate (200+ msgs) | 8 | Dunbar: ~5 |
| Close (50-199 msgs) | 31 | Dunbar: ~15 |
| Casual (10-49 msgs) | 155 | Dunbar: ~50 |
| Weak tie (2-9 msgs) | 312 | |
| Single message | 336 |
Meta reduces you to ad categories for 2,340 advertisers. Your actual data tells a different story.
72 apps across 9 life categories sent data about you to Meta -- without your knowledge.
The places you chose to share vs. the places Meta inferred from your IP address.
6 countries, 148 US cities. Restaurants, gyms, vacation spots, kids' schools. The map you drew.
Including 2 cities you have never visited. One appears to be a VPN routing error. The other is a cell tower misattribution. Meta stores both as fact.
Your search history reveals what was on your mind -- and how it changed over the years.
Your vocabulary, message length, and emoji usage tell a story about how you've changed.
Friendships form, deepen, and sometimes fade. Here's the lifecycle of your relationships.
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