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I thought this article was extremely intriguing in which it made me think about how ordinary individuals use metadata in order to establish ideas about others. In this article, Using Metadata to find Paul Revere, the author demonstrates that it is possible to gain an understanding of Revere’s social network simply based on recorded data that describes his membership to groups and places. This made me think about how individuals use metadata in our every day lives in order to obtain information about people that we do not personally know. Presently, social media provides a significant amount of information pertaining to the types of posts people like, and the social groups that people are apart of. This metadata allows us to gain some insight about an individual, even if you have never made personal contact with him or her. BL adds that this data is important because of the network visualization that is produced. I would be interested in collecting data from social media pages and formulating a similar social network using the same processes.