Facebook's CEO came up with a novel way of prediction. It can tell you as an user who you will hook up with one week in the future, according to a new book about the social network. CEO Mark Zuckerberg thought that it is very exciting to get into user data and look for patterns, according to an excerpt from Fortune columnist David Kirpatrick's The Facebook Effect. The following is from an excerpt:
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