With so many users on Facebook (to the tune of 1.59 billion monthly active users), you can be sure that this is a large enough sample pool for the social network company to draw upon when it comes to detecting purchase patterns, usage patterns, and even the kind of words that people use while communicating. In fact, it looks like Facebook is looking for a way to catch on certain catchphrases and lingo that have the potential of being a popular slang – before it even reaches at such status.
Having said that, Facebook has already picked up a patent for social glossary technology which would enable them to detect slang, acronyms and other neologisms. This is a conceptual software that would hunt down terms that do not have an actual known meaning, where among them include familiar words out of context, and make them part of the glossary to boot. It would even remove terms from the glossary if they end up to be less and less popular.
Do bear in mind that this remains just a patent, and we do not know if Facebook will utilize it in such a manner, if at all, or for something else. Do you think that Facebook will make use of this patent soon?
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