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It's ridiculous to equate all new social media apps with burglars
by eviks 2y ago
It's ridiculous to equate all new social media apps with burglars
- throwaway48476 2y agoIf they want to take your stuff and you don't want them to the analogy works.
- appendix-rock 2y agoNo it doesn’t. It’s a faulty analogy. I’m pretty sure that burglars don’t give you a choice. You choose to use a social network.
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- yieldcrv 2y agoNow you can choose how to use them with even more granularity QED thanks bye
- pcdoodle 2y agoIt's forced on non users. Look up shadow profiles.
- skydhash 2y agoHiring someone to clean my yard and then found him snooping inside my office would make a very strong case of him being a burglar.
- uoaei 2y agoI choose to live in a house, in a city. I don't choose who in my city tries to get into my house.
- mikeocool 2y agoEven if a social app starts off as a scrupulous player who’s acting responsibly with your data, doesn’t mean they are going to stay that way. It’s very common for companies that gain some traction, but aren’t on the path to be the next unicorn to get sold off to private equity firms who try to extract the most the value for the least effort. That often involves selling any all data to a data broker. Personally, I’d treat most apps/companies as if they could be burglars, and only give them access that I need to get value out of the app. I don’t really want to be friends with my landlord or my doctor on the socials anyway.