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105 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 8 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: deleted by author tech
I don't think this makes sense:
If you think it's suspicious if you don't have an account... Isn't it also suspicious if you have an empty account?
Also, I think having an account on a platform doesn't prevent someone stealing your identity. They can just create another account which looks like yours and contact people which don't know you.
So I think it's better to not have an account at all. Else, you legitimize these platforms.
No, it's not because a lot of people just upload a profile pic, connect to a few coworkers and that's it ("within a set"). Identity theft is hard when your profile is connected to the right people and was created earlier
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so you are saying that to keep an identity protected it should be given to facebook?
do you know how facebook makes money?
and do you know how it is wielded to sway public opinion?
(please, troll more, these are great comments for debate)
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so you are saying that to keep an identity protected it should be given to facebook?
I'm giving no identity to Meta. I'm giving them an empty profile. There is no data in that.
do you know how facebook makes money?
With ads that I'm not watching and tailored from data that I'm not giving them?
(please, troll more, these are great comments for debate)
I'm not trolling you. I think you're misunderstanding me. And also reading what I write in bad faith.
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I apologise that my writing may be particularly direct on this topic
I can assure you that facebook does not have your interests at heart
I am deadly serious that facebook is a weapon
and maybe somebody else can explain all the ways they track and influence you, even when you think they're not.
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For starters, you are giving them your picture (so that Clearview can grab it and use it for facial recognition, to recognize you as you go to places) and your name, as well as some of your social graph.
Above all, you are giving them your attention and your time.
I deleted my FB account 3 years ago, and so far nothing bad has happened to me.
It's funny that I was among the first people to create an FB account when they opened it to the general public, and some people would judge that I would use it. And now people are going to judge that I don't use it? Whatever. If anything, that makes us pioneers and trend-setters, not "suspicious".
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