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I've flagged your post for being unnecessarily hostile while also being ignorant of the type of features that 23andMe has. Maybe you're thinking of ancestry.com
by jhardy54 6y ago
I've flagged your post for being unnecessarily hostile while also being ignorant of the type of features that 23andMe has. Maybe you're thinking of ancestry.com?
- offtop5 6y agoYou're handing your most private personal data to a company in hopes of finding one of your ancestors did something cool ? Does that make sense to you ?
- jhardy54 6y agoHappy to answer any questions or accept feedback if someone thinks I should have done something differently. I've been trying to flag posts with misinformation rather than arguing, and it seems polite to explain my flags. The downvotes suggest I should've flagged silently?
- da_big_ghey 6y agoofftop5 offered his opinion that the service was not valuable in exchange for the data privacy concerns. Are you claiming that he misrepresented what this company offers? Because it appears to advertise exactly that: https://www.23andme.com/dna-ancestry https://www.23andme.com/dna-ancestry
- jhardy54 6y agoI remember their comment being something to the effect of "I don't understand why people care about a service that tells you about your wealthy ancestors when you're working a minimum wage job". They confused 23andMe, which is focused on genetics, with the other sites (ancestry/myheritage/etc) that focuses on individual ancestors and their stories, and shows that they aren't familiar enough with the topic to be able to post valid criticisms. I share their privacy concerns, but those concerns are undermined when we share uninformed takes that fumble the absolute basics. I'd feel similarly about "I don't know why people use Twitter and let Mark Zuckerberg exploit our emotions to keep engagement as high as possible".