""the social contract"" There is no such thing. Faceboook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram whatever exist to make money, or whatever those who own it or run it wa

""the social contract"" There is no such thing. Faceboook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram whatever exist to make money, or whatever those who own it or run it wants. It is your choice. You wish to spend your time adding value to a website someone else runs great. Does that give you rights? Nope. Normally in extremely obfuscated ways, the contract you do enter into by using a site will tell you exactly that you have no rights at all and they own everything you do. I agree that it can be unfair. But you actively decide to provide content. You cant make up the rules for the sites you do use. You can stop whenever you want. You can start your own site. I did so a few years ago when I got sick of this shit. On the other hand, I have few visitors. I can howl in the wilderness. For me it is preferable. If you do engage in one of the big social sites, you are given access to an enormous audience. You can post something that "goes viral". You get fame, site gets $$$$, maybe you get $$$. News can easily quote you from some of the big social sites. How often do you: Thinkbeat today said on his blog thinkbeat.blog that "" Compared to Such and Someone posted on Twitter...