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wildptr  ·  4353 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you use other social media?

My issue is with how they deal with privacy. I might use it if they were stricter with privacy.





motherlover  ·  4353 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Would you be comfortable with restricting how much information you share with the service and just keeping it around as a utility?

Also,.would "deleting your account" actually take away the information they already have?

guybrush  ·  4353 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was comfortable sharing my information with Facebook back in 2007. But as time has gone on I have become more cynical of their collection and use of personal data. I think this opinion was formed based on individual incidents (opening it up to search engines, changing of privacy settings) and largely uninformed media hype. Over the same period, I have become increasingly aware of my online 'footprint'. I want to get into politics later in life and don't want my opinions/photos/data being taken out of context in the future. Therefore, I prefer social media where my real identity is not disclosed.

wildptr  ·  4353 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Now that I think about it, I think that would be a good compromise. I'd let it be dormant, anyways.

motherlover  ·  4353 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, I never use twitter mostly because of format issues but I've got our just in case it comes in handy somehow.