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Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org)
Slashdot reader Nicola Hahn writes: Bulk data collection isn't the work of a couple of bad apples. Corporate social media is largely predicated on stockpiling and mining user information. As Zuckerberg explained to lawmakers, it's their business model...
While Zuckerberg has offered public apologias, spurring genuine regulation will probably be left to the public. Having said that, confronting an economic sector which makes up one of the country's largest political lobbying blocks might not be a tenable path in the short term.
The best immediate option for netizens may be to opt out of social media entirely.
The original submission links to this call-to-action from Counterpunch: Take personal responsibility for your own social life. Go back to engaging flesh and blood people without tech companies serving as an intermediary. Eschew the narcissistic impulse to broadcast the excruciating minutiae of your life to the world. Refuse to accept the mandate that you must participate in social media in order to participate in society. Reclaim your autonomy.
While Zuckerberg has offered public apologias, spurring genuine regulation will probably be left to the public. Having said that, confronting an economic sector which makes up one of the country's largest political lobbying blocks might not be a tenable path in the short term.
The best immediate option for netizens may be to opt out of social media entirely.
The original submission links to this call-to-action from Counterpunch: Take personal responsibility for your own social life. Go back to engaging flesh and blood people without tech companies serving as an intermediary. Eschew the narcissistic impulse to broadcast the excruciating minutiae of your life to the world. Refuse to accept the mandate that you must participate in social media in order to participate in society. Reclaim your autonomy.
Of course, it is never too late to realize your mistake in believing it was ever OK to give a soulless corporation access to your personal information, and thus also allow HR to look at all your party pics where you got drunk, and other things you really dont want your professional career life to know about-- but really, what ever made you guys think it was even a good idea to start with?
I remember when the very idea of using your real name online was a point and shame offense.
We need to get back to that kind of thing,
"For example I have Twitter which I mostly use only to read posts as new. I seldom post something myself."
Twitter here:
That is ok, just knowing what you do read and what you do not is enough for us to monetize your personal data.
Thanks for being a sheep,
Twitter Inc.
This is the problem. People think they need it now. The abuses possible are inherent in all present implementations. A federal injunction should be issued. If they want to save face. Perhaps they read slashdot? The sharing of all (or part) personal information online is a national security risk. period. fucking period.
But I beg to digress (facebook needs to die. shutdown.) We need to focus on the solution. Open source (free as in beer) software and hardware to the rescue.
Let's get to this, gentlemen. IRC or whatever. but connect and solve this problem. We need transparency. We need the people to be able to set up their own networks. Think mesh community nodes with a DMZ to talk to the other networks. We can do this better. I know we can.
You went on vacation, so you weren't home, which is a great time to break in and steal stuff.
You posted pictures of your home,probably move in dates. The location is somewhere in your history.
Before social media so much knowledge was public, but hard to access. Now it is quick to access
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
"Twitter dos not know who I am for one"
It doesn't care what your name is. It knows that you're a right wing conspiracy theorist, a bit racism sprinkled over and so it knows which ads to serve you to influence your behavior in the voting booth.
No, it's time to boycott all those silos you call "platforms" and go back to open protocols. Everybody should physically own their data (including encrypted cloud storage, as long as the key never leaves the client) and connect with each other over a secure open protocol.
Posting that on /. Are you going to hit up Facebook and Twitter too, or should one of us do it?
Isn't Slashdot social media? You've got friends and foes, journal entries, notifications...
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You seem to have failed to learn your lesson from all the breaches and data collection. there is no such thing as too expensive, Business 101 is if the data is hard or expensive to gather then it is much more valuable and can be sold at a much higher cost. The only answer is for your data not be out there.
Says who? I've never used those services in the first place.
The question is, why are you posting everything? Stop broadcasting your life online!
Go back to regular forums, there's still millions of them all over the place, targeting specific topics. If I visit a DIY arcade cabinets forum, the worst thing that can happen is that I see ads related to arcade hardware, which I might be interested in because I visit that kind of website.
#DeleteFacebook
Email has no like or share button ...
No idea why "idiots like you" can't grasp the difference between social media and email.
Posts like yours are completely bollocks. I for my part don't want to end up on black lists for spam because "I sent an email to all my friends" ... nor do I like my ISP to be blacklisted because "he distributes to much spam".
I have about 250 Aikido friends on FB. And I know the eMail address of about 25. Probably less. Do you really thing we meet in person and exchange eMail addresses? Or call each other to hook up (how would we get each others phone number?) We connect because we go to the same events. If we want to exchange eMail addresses, guess what: I ask "you are on FB, right?" They answer "yes/no" if they say yes, we use FB later to exchange ... when one of us remembers and thinks it is "worth it", if "no" we exchange the eMail address. Chances are, I lose it on the way home ... or forget to mail. If I go on FB next time, I likely see photos from the event we met. And hence I remember to contact the person in question.
Do that with eMail ...
FB et all, closes a "communication gap". They have many useful features. And most of my "friends" are aware about "the problems". We only use it for our sport. Why the funk would everyone of us have to maintain a private mailing list for "his -special Aikido- friends" when a site like FB does that _automatically_ for us?
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