jimkirk
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I think Facebook (also LetGo and OfferUp) were great until the majority figured about them..I scored some pretty good deals a couple years ago.. Now its pretty much overpriced shit and modded Arcade 1Ups.
yes social media corporations are harvesting your data. yes you must be careful about what you post. but jesus, this is common sense. just be careful and don't post anything stupid. social media companies want your info so they can advertise to you. nothing more.
the only entities looking at your data are algorithms. are you scared that someday someone else could use this information to hurt you? that's always possible, but unlikely. the shear amount of data that is collected offers us anonymity
I'll be honest with you though, you'd be hard-pressed to find a millennial in a Facebook arcade community (other than me I guess, but I don't really use it). I don't really think this is a generational thing at all. I think it affects everyone.
ok look. andy. you're a smart guy. and i'm going to be honest with you and say i'm not going to watch any of your videos. because i'm at work. but tell me something specific that this data could be used for. realistically. if someone knows my sexual orientation, or my jawline, or what i've clicked on, and it's mixed in with 3 billion other people's data, what could they use that information for and how could it hurt me?
i'm not saying that i don't think someone could hurt me, i'm just asking what specifically you are worried about.
ok look. andy. you're a smart guy. and i'm going to be honest with you and say i'm not going to watch any of your videos. because i'm at work. but tell me something specific that this data could be used for. realistically. if someone knows my sexual orientation, or my jawline, or what i've clicked on, and it's mixed in with 3 billion other people's data, what could they use that information for and how could it hurt me?
i'm not saying that i don't think someone could hurt me, i'm just asking what specifically you are worried about.
while it is always good to stay vigilant and use common sense, i find the general old man fears of new things like facebook to be a little paranoid. it's a tool. you can use it for good or bad, and whether you get anything out of it depends on how good you are at using it. generally, more connectivity and exposure to others is better. (and people on this site could definitely use more diversity.) our technology and livelihoods have been driven by the need for connectivity since the invention of the telephone. there were privacy concerns and naysayers saying these same things about the internet in general 20 years ago, and yet here we are all using it and the world hasn't ended. this isn't any different.
yes social media corporations are harvesting your data. yes you must be careful about what you post. but jesus, this is common sense. just be careful and don't post anything stupid. social media companies want your info so they can advertise to you. nothing more. a life insurance company can't raise someone's rates based on the cat pictures they post, and if they do, the free market will offer some protection against unreasonable price gouging. no one is sitting in a dark room jerking off to your bathroom selfies. the only entities looking at your data are algorithms. are you scared that someday someone else could use this information to hurt you? that's always possible, but unlikely. the shear amount of data that is collected offers us anonymity, and while you could be personally and more directly targeted if someone had a reason to do so, you are all active on the internet anyway, posting in threads here, giving out personal information. i can get your addresses and look up your houses on google streetmap, which i usually do before sending anyone my arcade stuff to get worked on. so it doesn't really matter if you use facebook or not. your data is either going to be buried so deeply along with everyone else's that it isn't going to be useful to anyone, or people will be able to target you and get whatever information they want whether you post on facebook or not. the only way to truly make yourself completely safe is to cut the cord and go off the grid. but honestly, i think this issue has more to do with old people be stubborn and averse to whatever they are unfamiliar with.
ugh. i've been a software engineer for 20 years. my degree is in computer science. i understand how sorting works and that companies characterize the data they receive. and i'm not going to watch your videos. but i'll ask again, what do you think they are going to use this data for? tell me specifically what you are afraid of?
"advance company interests?"
what does this mean? to make money? to advertise? that was the first thing i stated before you insisted there's more to it. what more to it is there? world domination? discrimination? political gerrymandering? i'm asking you to tell me specifically what you think facebook is doing with it's data so we can have a grounded conversation about those fears, instead of an ambiguous argument based on irrationalism. and if everything you know about this subject comes from a youtube video instead of critical thinking, then i wouldn't consider yourselves educated.
Hi.
We're here, just not nearly as confused or paranoid
Also, when i was young, I am pretty sure i was dubbed "Gen X" or "Gen Y". Not sure when my birth year (84) got lobbed into millennial status but, i'm pretty bummed about it.
People in general I find are confused about what a "millenial" is. It's generally agreed upon that millenials were born between ~1981 and 1996. Gen Y and millenial are the same thing. A lot of people say millenial when they actually mean Gen Z, which is people born 1997 or later. There are some varying year ranges that you may find, but that's a pretty commonly agreed upon range.
Millenials, for the most part, are just regular adults working day jobs and paying bills, but people from Gen X and before have been conditioned to think of "millenials" as those lazy kids and so, to them, all kids are millenials.
For the record, I'm from the tail end of Gen X. Old enough to remember before the internet was in every home (or pocket), young enough to have not been typing on a typewriter in high school.
This is one of the best posts I've ever read, just for the record.
However, I DID use a typewriter to learn in school... but maybe we were just poor? lol
Do derail this thread even further, when I was in school early on we had typewriters and Apple 2's. They were rad. Outdated at the time, but what more do you need?