The launch of Facebook initiated a seismic shift in human data generation. By moving human relationships, text posts, photo tagging, and daily interactions into structured digital databases, social networks created the hyper-scale, human-labeled behavior tracking loops that modern recommender systems and consumer behavioral AI profiles rely upon.
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