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I am really glad i don't have public social media

• woutr_be 6y ago
  Ironically, this tool also includes HN. "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id={username}",
  • volume 6y ago
    wait, that would be coincidence. It would be ironic if it were a social media site for privacy experts.
• f38zf5vdt 6y ago
  There is no 21st century option to refuse public social media. As observed with Clearview AI, if you end up in someone's photo on a social media website you will be inadvertently added to a social and location-based graph. I believe Facebook does this internally, so if you have any friends or relatives using Facebook who uploads a picture of you, no matter how old, your social graph is present there. And try as you may, so long as you have a phone number you will end up in someone's harvested contacts list.
  • bigodbiel 6y ago
    the infamous shadow profiles that Zuckerberg tried to "deny" during congressional hearing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16813659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16813659
  • bredren 6y ago
    This is called a “shadow” profile, I think.
• fortran77 6y ago
  And yet, here you are.
  • volume 6y ago
    ...because any site with a discussion thread is social media. IRC and usenet are social media. maybe email is social media?
    • postalrat 6y ago
      Yea. Some mailing lists are a form of social media. Many of them are public. IRC and twitch would be too.
  • A12-B 6y ago
    When I said public i meant with my face and name.