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Why millennials will learn nothing from Facebook’s privacy crisis
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2018 Apr 9, 7:48am 1,926 views 2 comments
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MrMagic
2018 Apr 14, 8:30am
MrMagic
2018 Apr 14, 8:30am
WookieMan says
Age 25 to 34, at 29.7% of users, is the most common age demographic.
50% of 18-24 year-olds go on Facebook when they wake up. (
https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/
Facebook doesn't exist if it wasn't for the dry boomer women gossiping and the limp boomer men paying for worthless advertising,
Age 25 to 34, at 29.7% of users, is the most common age demographic.
50% of 18-24 year-olds go on Facebook when they wake up. (
https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/
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bob2356
2018 Apr 14, 11:38am
Sniper says
People post their information on the internet and then worry about privacy? Duh, what did they think was going to happen? Idiotic.
Millennials don't seem to care that Facebook harvests their data for profit
People post their information on the internet and then worry about privacy? Duh, what did they think was going to happen? Idiotic.
More than a decade into the social-media experiment, we can no longer claim ignorance about Facebook’s business model. Still we go right on shoveling wheelbarrows of our most personal information into its insatiable maw. Facebook knows our politics, our tastes in food, our religious affiliations and our sexual orientations. It knows who our friends and enemies are. It has developed taxonomies of our family relationships and work histories. It tracks us everywhere we go on the Internet. It can identify us by sight, using digital face-recognition technology to analyze our photos.
We give them everything; they give us — what, exactly? The “huge mistake” in this arrangement was probably ours.
Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley behemoth that monetizes personal information. Google, Apple and Microsoft are all inviting advertisers, researchers and government agencies to find you through their platforms.
I’ve had millennials tell me they don’t worry what Facebook, Twitter, Amazon or Google know about them because they’ve got nothing to hide. And anyway, the big tech companies are ambivalent about your personal peccadilloes, millennials say. They only keep such close tabs because they want to make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for online.
“If today’s social media has taught us anything about ourselves as a species, it is that the human impulse to share overwhelms the human impulse for privacy,” wrote Wired magazine founder Kevin Kelly in his 2016 book,
Millennials have made peace with the idea that they won’t have any privacy. In fact, they’ve learned to love the idea that nothing is off-limits, everything is for public consumption and everyone is always on display.
https://nypost.com/2018/04/07/why-millennials-will-learn-nothing-from-facebooks-privacy-crisis/