@davewil1964 wrote:
That's why facebook is was so successful.
People didn't think nor care about the consequences of splattering their personal information all over the internet. Then they found their house robbed when they came back from holidays, or didn't get the job because the prospective employer had a squiz at their postings...
It always seems a good idea at the time. Especially when it saves seconds they could be using to post selfies.
The amount of data collection and sharing that goes on these days is really creepy - there is so much that goes on in the background, especially with the mobile apps. Facebook have also admitted to "social experiments", via curating what people see in their newsfeeds.
If I watch something on Netflix, on My PC, I get YouTube recommendations related to what I watched when on my phone. If I search for something on my phone, I get ads for that thing when browsing the web on my PC, despite having two different google accounts (one for each device). Google has so much info about people, whether they have a Facebook account or not.
