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Leave it to people at MIT to completely blow the minds of everyone ever. They have, if their trials are correct, have found the icebreaker of icebreakers, the slander of all ultimate slanders, the dramanuke of dramanukes, the ability to use Facebook and algorithmically discover the sexuality of every person on it. There’s no way this can be 100%, but this is both exciting and frightening. It’s the drama Hiroshima 9/11 Xenu Holocaust of dramas. And it’s coming soon to a Facebook near you.

Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree created a software for a research project that determines someone’s sexuality from just their public Facebook info, meaning you don’t even have to friend them. How this works, I have no idea, but in 947 trials, the program found all 10 “hidden gays” in the sampling, according to the Boston Globe.

Before they release the software to the public, they still need to work out the kink they have with lesbians, which have less than perfect results. But damn…this is cool.

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Tags: dramanuke, Facebook, Facebook application, gay gene, gaydar, Grindr, homosexuality, iPhone, Twitter

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