how much do you trust your social media networks?
Nicole Ogloza
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whether it's security or other intervention, just wanted to know how people feel about social media from a technical standpoint and security involved.
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Paul VanZandt@paul_vanzandt
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Not at all. I think it's important to remember that companies like Facebook aren't just an app on your phone - they're multi-billion dollar companies. They really don't have your best interest in mind.
If the product is free, you are the product.
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I don’t trust any free products. If it is free I am the product so I know that my interest and the companies are not aligned
@pablo_fatas what would it take for you to trust a free product? For startups, having a free social media, is the quickest way to get usersf rom the get-go, so just urious if you have ways around that? We will be making revenue drivers not from data or personal data, nor will we use that for ads, since we have figured out other rev drivers that will make more than that. Let me know if you have any thoughts on what it would take for you to trust something like that
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So, from a technical standpoint, I would say that the large social profiling companies, Google, FB, Twitter, etc. Are probably the saftest places that exist for consumer data. I understand that there have been security breaches in the past. But none to the scale of Equifax, and that is a gov subsidized company that manages our most private financial information.
The way a buddy of mine that worked at Google explained it, is that customer information is everything to them, after all it is what they sell. Or perhaps what they trade access to. So they have the best security teams in the world ensuring that their top assets, our data, is secured.
This doesn't make me comfortable in the least bit. Especially with all the political and social engineering that they have done, and which has come to mainstream light in the past several years. So I unavoidably trust them with my data, but not with politics, news, or education.
I tend to trust the major social networks from the security point of view - but at the same time I'm very cautious at what I post.
@daniel_engels do you think posting is more damaging from a standpoint for your career? reputation? or something else?
I don’t totally because things don’t seem to be what it is on the internet.
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Not really. But it's time to put trust back into social networks. And it starts by playing an active, engaged role in these networks instead of blindly and blindly trusting everything you read online.
I trust it to a certain extent; like 60% cos it is not what you think it is most times
I find it quite hard to trust social media networks, though it has its good side too, but the bad sides of it is dominant as well. One has to be smart and vigilant whole using social media
@ajadi_lateefah i go full anonymous most times. Gotta be careful
Not at all, some people perpetrates evil through them.
Not at all, lot of crazy things going on out there
First of all, most of the social media platforms are free and to make money they use adds system by using your perosnal information and interests. I don't trust them that much.
Well, I hardly trust them. I do not find any of them 100% trustworthy and reliable.
I don't totally trust social media networks because most of the times, things don't seem as they appear on social media.
I really don't trust them to an extent because I just feel insecured
Not really because most of the viral statements tend to be based on opinion and have very little basis in facts
Most of the information on social media are based on opinion and not facts
Not so much. Social media is not your friend. Social media does not care about you. Most of the services that most people would classify as social media, such as sites, apps, and everything related to social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, et all, give the impression that they are bringing people together and may even claim as much. And the reality is that some, very few, actually do that.
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Big big problem.. the amount of spying done by them on our lives is insane.. all to control us to act as they wish... so one has to be careful.