Current social media and the privacy risks.
The means of communication changed drastically in the last few years. By the invention of telephone by Alexander Graham bell boundaries and borders remain no more a barrier between people to interact. The invention of telephone was a great landmark in the field of communication system. Soon this was conquered by internet and presently we have got social networking websites and the social media.
Social networking has drastically changed the way people interact with their friends, foes, associates, nears and dears whosoever they want to interact. Some major social networking websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google +, YouTube, snapchat etc play an important role in our day to day lives, but these sites are not without drawbacks. The personal property of a person, I mean to protect the privacy from the prying eyes of the people it is important that our data must be guarded properly here, but that is not the case. By using the above mentioned social networking websites one could pose serious privacy risks.
Nowadays, on social media the hackers prowl the social media networks looking for victims. They use some tactics to trick their victims into visiting harmful sites or to inject viruses into their computers or mobile phones. Most of the social media sites have your required information like your name, birthday, email address etc. The hackers tend to gather the victim information on the social media websites. One of the common techniques used by the identity thieves for hacking purpose is, clicking on the "forgot password" and then trying to recover the password via email. Once they have access to your email they can now access to all of your personal information.
Do you know people earn money from your work and interestingly you are not aware of the fact, that is really injustice with you. Isn't it? The answer to your question is yes. It must be the right of a person to get paid for the work he performs.
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You might be thinking how these companies earn money from you.? Let me understand you, many people utilize social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, orkut etc. These sites allow people to publish the details about there lives and also provide a way to communicate with their friends, relatives, colleagues etc. However some of the info revealed in the posts should have remained private and not published at all. But that is not the case, as these companies have access to our data they collect a range of data relevant in terms of privacy issues and then sell the same to advertisers. We see users publish their likes and interests and that is a great opportunity for the marketers, by knowing the likes and dislikes of people it is easy to target them with their marketing messages.
With this process the companies earn billions and billions of dollars by using you and your eyeballs as their products. Isn't it injustice with we people, yes, it is really an injustice. So it is time to stand against these carporations and take the internet back. what should we do now?. Letus leave these sites once and for all, I know you can't do that even I can't also. So our next step must be for a better alternative if available. If you don't know about the alternative here I will bring that to you.
The best alternative
Sphere is the next generation social networking platform. It is completely decentralized social network different from all other carporations. Sphere is made on fundamental principles of privacy, data security and transparency. Moreover it is not like those carporations which use your data and privacy to make money using you as their product, here you are entitled with compensation for your work and more importantly you take the power back with every connection and every transaction. Moreover with the introduction of cryptocurrency new generation youth is interested in blockchain and in investment. With the introduction of steemit where you get rewarded for your content whenever any other user upvotos your content both you and the upvoter gets rewarded. This concept has been amazing and it made people to think off better alternatives.
Keeping in view the changing trends of sphere has its own cryptocurrency. The Aptly named social activity tokens or simply SATs is the cryptocurrency used by sphere. The SAT tokens can be used to facilitate transactions withn the decentralized social network.
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Sphere provides a market place to its registered users and you can sell or buy products here by using the cryptocurrency I,e the SAT tokens. Let me understand it to you with an example.
If you want to sell any of your products, for example, if you want to sell your laptop you just have to set a price tag of the product and you can also limit the users who can see your posts and who may not. The persons interested in buying will just need to click on the product and click on the price tag and the required amount of SATs will be immediately debited from the buyer's account into your account and the transaction will be marked as completed.
During the pre-sale session the price of 100 SAT tokens was 5 USD and currently price of 20 SAT tokens is 0.14 USD.
Sphere is currently in its ICO (initial coin offering) which started on 12th of February 2018. The first round of ICO got completed and the second round is going to end soon and the final date of the ICO is set on 9th of April 2018. Sphere aims to raise the funds through ICO. You can Find out more details about sphere ICO in the below scree shot taken from sphere white paper.
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It is the best opportunity here for you to buy the SAT tokens in ICO as the current price is very low as compared to the future of the SAT cryptocurrency which is believed to reach greater heights after the currency gets listed on the cryptocurrency exchanges. Furthermore currently on any purchase of SAT tokens you will get a guaranteed bonus of 35% to 45% which means you are surely gonna be rich in comming future. So grab the opportunity, buy the tokens and buy it now.
The Android and IOS apps for already out on Google play store for Android and on IOS stores you can download these apps by clicking on the following links.
Download for Android
Download app for IOS
If you haven't joined this amazing social networking platform just join from the main website link
Furthermore sphere is running referral and the bounty program where from you can get SAT tokens for free. For each referral you will be awarded with 20 SAT tokens. If you want join sphere by using my referral link please click here else if you want to join the bounty program please read the terms and conditions here
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