Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To   : phigan
From : Boraxman
Date : Mon May 19 2025 08:06 am

-=> phigan wrote to Cougar428 <=-

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ph>   Re: Re: Most memorable modern
ph>   By: Cougar428 to ARELOR on
ph> Thu May 15 2025 02:19 pm

>  Just the fact that you are using
> Facebook means data is being generat
>
>  The only way to stop that data
> gathering is to desist from
>  participating in it. Whether doing


ph> Yeah, I don't use any of that shit, so
ph> I think I'm good.

ph> It's weird to me that this is weird to
ph> other people. They always roll their
ph> eyes at me and say "But I keep up with
ph> my family!" Uhh, use the phone? Call em
ph> up. Get together. Why do you need some
ph> other company's shit in the middle?

ph> I've accepted that people do it, but
ph> still don't really understand why.

That is what still bugs me the most about it.  People say that it helps keep in
touch, as if there were no other way to do it.  Why do you need to involve a
predator in our communication?  Why do you feel the need to make everything
about me logged and tracked, just to show me a photo?

I think most people aren't really aware of this.  They just think "its the
Internet" and don't see how significantly different sending someone a photo
over
Facebook vs email really is.

My mum's a kind of big facebook user, and I explained to her the business
model,
that "keeping in touch" is just a cover for data harvesting and selling your
information for ads.  She was a bit shocked.


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