OrangeBlossomBaby |
09-17-2020 06:22 AM |
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Originally Posted by graciegirl
(Post 1834040)
I absolutely and completely agree with this post from Orange Blossom Baby.
The OP of this thread has no experience with using Facebook and has no direct knowledge of what it is, and how it works. Many people are frightened of Facebook for imagined loss of privacy. Facebook can be an amazingly wonderful entity and very safe to use. For many people during this pandemic the interchanges and banter and repartee on Facebook is a great stress relief. It is entertaining, it is interesting, and the OP on this thread would love the political debates among people who know each other. On Facebook, users can block and control who sees the content of their posts and the memes they share.
The OP on this thread is judging without knowledge. The use of Facebook is not without peril, but it is mostly positive to me and many people who live in The Villages and all across the world. It opens our dialogue to friends and family members and allows us to see and chat and share political and moral views and adorable grandchildren's pictures. Facebook is a medium to communicate and really not a source of news in itself. News is repeated, expounded on and lied about, just like on this forum.
If you do not at least LOOK at Facebook, see how it works, you are much behind the times and unaware in my opinion.
How people feel about Mark Zuckerberg has nothing to do with how people use and enjoy Facebook.
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It isn't an imaginary loss of privacy. It is a very specific loss of privacy. And the user (the person who uses these social media platforms) is in control of who gets to see and use their private information. There are tools to mask your IP and tools to mask your personally identifiable information. There are tools to prevent you from ever seeing a single sponsored ad. There are tools to block anyone who offends you. There are tools to ONLY allow you to see people who you personally invited to visit your page.
But the fewer tools you use, the more privacy you give away. There's a balance, and you just need to be intelligent and patient enough to learn what that balance is. Most people are lazy, not stupid. They just can't be bothered. And then when they keep getting ads from political campaigns whining at them to donate more, or telling them that the other guy is a jerk, and how they're going to prevent the world from blowing itself up if only you would vote for their guy... they want to know what conspiracy this is.
It's a self-created conspiracy. You clicked on a political ad once. By doing that, you gave the sponsor of that ad permission to recognize your IP address. By doing THAT, you gave it permission to send MORE ads to any instance of that IP address doing anything on that social media website. Watch a video about puppies? Well the "Party for Dogs that Like Candidate Q" is going to send you THEIR puppy videos explaining why you should vote for that candidate. All because you once clicked on that candidate's website.
That's just a hypothetical, no idea if that exact example happens (because I pick and choose, with understanding and knowledge, which political things I will allow onto my facebook page). But that's the general idea of it.
You have NO privacy on the internet. Not anywhere on the internet, at all. Unless you know how to mask your IP, several layers deep, someone somewhere out there knows you're there. And it's watching you.
Learn to accept that, and you'll have no more complaints.
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