Some forms of Social Media, either by design and/or by usage, encourage emotional response(s) to events. This is not always bad but it sure is awful many times.
I see some younger people who will have nothing to do with Face Book because of the huge privacy issues but I suspect they are a minority. And other services are just as bad. I was reading an article written by a single woman in the UK who was using Tinder to find dates. Since she is in the UK should could, and did, have Tinder send ALL of the information they possessed on her. She was shocked to see the hundreds of pages of information. EVERY communication she had on the service was recorded and kept.
The radio show I listen too was talking about a study that showed how many likes it took to know you as well as your coworkers, friends, family, parents and spouse. I think that was the list. It took what I thought were very few likes to figure out one's personality. This article seems to be what they were talking about on the radio,
Facebook knows you better than your members of your own family - Telegraph
The team found that their software was able to predict a study participant's personality more accurately than a work colleague by analysing just 10 'Likes'.
Inputting 70 'Likes' allowed it to obtain a truer picture of someone's character than a friend or room-mate, while 150 'Likes' outperformed a parent, sibling or partners. It took 300 'Likes' before the programme was able to judge character better than a spouse.
Now, I am not on Face Book, and never will be, but I get prompted on websites fairly frequently to answer a question on a survey to see more content. How easy is that to do and how long will it take for Google, it is always a Google survey, to know me better than my wifey? The survey questions are very innocuous. Think about how much they already know based on searches, contacts, email, texts, location, etc. and add the survey data...:shocked::shocked::shocked:
While I am already on a roll and taking this too far into the ditches... :laughing::laughing::laughing:
China is creating a Social Score. It is like our Credit Score but the Social Score will be used to decide where you can live, what job you can have, what schools you go to, are you allowed to travel, where you can travel, etc. :shocked::shocked::shocked: The Social Score will be created by what websites you visit, what you say online, who you are talking with, who you have contact with, criminal history, traffic citations, etc. I would assume they will also look at location information, track video's watched, music listened too, what one downloads to read, etc. China is also deploying more video cameras in public spaces which you know will be used to track people by knowing their face. They already use facial recognition to dispense toilet paper....
1984 was premature by 30 or 40 years but there will be a 1984, it is only a question of when, if not already today.
Happy Friday,
Dan
