jaylar
No matter how many times it is stated, the fact is, Facebook is a very dangerous and intrusive medium.
As Google, it ‘mines’ data.
Facebook and Google go through your private messages, your public posts, examines your actions, and sells what it finds to whomever pays.
Pause here.
You are writing an email, using Gmail, to your brother, mentioning that you think your cousin’s daughter is autistic.
You now get ad upon ad, and ads dressed as articles all over your Facebook page about Autism.
So does your brother.
Facebook sells your data to whomever wants to buy it. It doesn’t care who it sells to, just as long as it makes money.
It can sell information about children to pederasts, and as previously mentioned, to serial killers.
It can and will fill your page with propaganda, fake news, all sorts of rubbish to influence opinions.
If you were aware of this, you would join Facebook using an alias, use a crap mail as your address. You would contact people you know and tell them who you are, but remain an alias for the rest of the world..
Google is too strong … almost everyone on the internet uses it …
I’ve long heard FB sells users’ data …
and the ads, spot on!
I just did a search on anything (say hats), the next site I go to, shows ads about hats!
I realised this about ten years ago. When you need to search, try another engine, i.e. duckduckgo.com which keeps no records.
LOL, I wasn’t as observant, I just notice say few years back …
Sound great, I’ll try duckduckgo! Such a cute name!
It hit me instantly. It was about ten years ago when I mentioned the ‘autism’ and it was all over the place.
Excellent advice for all users. We should all heed the advice.
Thank you…. I ponder if anyone realises this… after everything that has happened?
Probably not, they are much too busy.
From day one I only joined FB to play Scrabble. On another site if you make an error, you are punished. On FB you are warned and lose nothing. So I joined with a Nick and have seen things so stupid that people post I am stunned. People will post; “Well, flying to Ja tonight! Going to miss (ha ha) the snow!”