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Collected...? I don't follow. You're using a service that stores (read: collects) your data for you.

• neumann 13y ago
  Of course. It is not that I wouldn't be aware before signing up (and hence don't), it is that this is such a good visualization to demonstrate that they have stored this information for|on you. Irrationally, I am more comforted by large companies having this type of data on me, under the _wrong_ assumption that I am part of a larger dataset and hence more anonymous. I understand the fallacy of this, especially when considering the additional meta data big players like Google have on their users. Yet somehow this vis creeps me out as I watch that couple messaging long distance between Paris and Sydney. Even if the data is anonymised, details about their private lives are being shared. Then again, I am the nut who never signed up to facebook et al, having rolled out a private communication site amongst friends beforehand.