This is a genuine question which is a little of the crypto topic however I must address what is happening. Most people don’t realize when they use certain social network sites that THEY are putting themselves up for sale. Every bit of information about you is for sale to the highest future owner……sorry advertiser. Are you being paid for the work you are doing to make a certain social network site profitable? The answer is no so you are being manipulated into interacting with such platforms as much as possible, so they can gather and mine information from you. So, you do the work and they get the money. You work and remain unpaid and they get paid and become rich of your hard work. Your the content and you provide the content. Without you the platform is nothing - yet you work for free...the opposite of Steemit.
The fact that such sites have become multibillion dollar businesses by selling you to advertisers should come as no surprise. When are people going to realize that YOU are the product in the shop window not the website. The elite are walking past the shop window daily and buying YOU and your not being paid. It is digital slavery with billions of people’s profile being bought and sold on the platform and you receiving nothing in return. You have no control over what is done with your profile. You also consent to anything being done with your information. Until you stop using such platforms, putting up personal photographs, sending personal msgs and creating a timeline of your entire life you will remain enslaved. Remember no information about you gets lost and everything you say and feel remains forever where it can later be used against you. How many people have had a tweet they made years ago come back and haunt them or destroy their career...be awake!!!
Be careful as many social media sites make a conceited effort to try and obtain as much personal information about you. They want to know everything about you and I mean everything. The reason for this is they can sell that information to advertisers. They can show to advertisers, companies, and even political parties their shop window. They can let the elite marvel over how detailed the information is they have on their digital slaves. You are treated like a heard of sheep that can be steered in any direction by a farmer (data miner). The level of information they are extracted from your conversations using machine learning to read your personal messages on a platform can destroy any form of intimacy. For example, your sexual preference, your anxieties, concerns, illnesses, family matters, grievances etc. Collecting home addresses, emails, phone numbers of friends and family should be the least of your worries. It’s the personal invasion that you consent to once you use such platforms and how that information is stored, categorized, and utilized by third-parties.
Hence the assertion that people have unwittingly signed up to being sold online is very real. Many people have not read the terms and conditions on social media sites. Many people young and old are naive to the fact that can be subverted via major social media sites. Why should anyone get all your personal details for free? Not even governments have that much information on us and they are supposed to be responsible for our well-being. What are these major social media sites responsible for? Making money by selling YOU.
Long live Steemit and may it not follow the path of Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo etc.
