pattern-of-life-from-socials

# Pattern of Life from Socials Pattern-of-life analysis turns scattered public posts into a model of where someone is, when, and with whom. It is the most abusable technique in this repo: the same method produces a due-diligence report and a stalking dossier. The difference is authorization and scope, not tradecraft. The beginner error is collecting posts instead of analysing them — screenshots of a feed are not intelligence. Work four layers: account metadata, network, content, temporal behaviour. The first and last are the two everyone skips, and the two the subject can't curate. ## Step 1 — Authorized scope Read [../../ETHICS.md](../../ETHICS.md), then write down before opening a single profile: - **Subject** — the account(s) and the real-world entity you believe is behind them. - **Objective** — the question that ends the investigation. "Pattern of life" is not one. "Does this vendor's EU lead actually live in the EU" is. - **In / out of bounds** — explicitly. Minors, uninvolved family, home address, health, religion, sexuality and immigration status are out unless the objective requires them and you can defend that. - **Posture** — observation only, or authorized interaction. Following, liking, messaging and viewing stories are all interaction. - **Jurisdiction** — yours, the subject's, the platform's. - **Stop condition** — you stop when the objective is answered, when the trail lands on an uninvolved third party, or when the only question left is "where...