Steem thought - Facebook can be super creepy

in #facebook8 years ago


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An Unpleasant Suprise

Yesterday I took my family to the beach. My daughter is eighteen months old and couldn't remember the previous two times we'd been.....so everything was very new to her. Her astonishment and joy at all the new stimulae and experiences was wonderful to behold; running on sand and building castles, chasing her hat blown by the wind, jumping in sea puddles warmed by the sun, charging around at the edge of the sea with the spray shimmering and splashing her face. My fiancé and I took many photos, precious memories of fleeting moments.

Having spent the whole day at the beach, we returned home thoroughly worn out. Not long afterwards, Anna was looking through her photos when she received a Facebook notification requesting her to view a slideshow. She selected to view the slideshow, not really knowing what it was, and all the photos she had taken at the beach began to bloom all over the screen. So what's the problem? Well she found it super creepy for Facebook to be displaying her photographs in such a way, before she had even viewed them herself. She showed me and I agreed with her, it felt highly intrusive. Anna had made every attempt to prevent Facebook from accessing her photo library, but here she was, with Facebook's applications peeping at and using her photos with apparent impunity.

It is behaviour like this that makes me believe that Facebook's days are numbered. The pressure to access and monetise their user's data will continue to ensure that their interests fail to align with their users and what many would consider abuses will only continue.

I accept, some people may not have a problem with Facebook accessing user data in this way and that's ok. For us, Facebook just gets creepier every day.

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That's a really good point actually. Was pretty weird opening Facebook and seeing photo's I'd taken, ready to be uploaded in case my finger accidentally slipped on the touch-screen. It just slipped my mind at the time, but what you've just said really makes sense benjojo. I'll probably share this to Facebook and people will either think I'm a nut or it'll really get them thinking...
Or Facebook will ban me for posting anti-facey messages then post all my photo's up without my permission. R3kt!

To this day I still don't understand why Facebook has become that popular. I never made an account because I didn't want my personal data and pictures on the internet because I knew that could lead to trouble. In this respect, steemit isn't any solution either. I see people posting some very private data on here also. I don't think that is very smart. The blockchain is freely accessible for everyone. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future some people here will regret some things they posted here.

Holy Moly! That's scary. Wasn't on facebook since the day I signed up Steemit. Steem On!

Hehe, yess facebook is boring. alot of unecesary notifications all day :p
Hope for all to join this instead.
Keep up the good work

I already deactived my facebook 3 weeks ago. Now im focusing on steemit to making money :)
LONG LIVE THE GREAT STEEMS !!!

Yes Facebook is waste of time😅

Yeah, that is why it is the number 1 surveillance tool used by the goverment!! I am not even kidding!

wow creepy, and yeah facebook is boring. this time I prefer to steemit.

happy Steemit benjojo ;)

there seems to be someone who deliberately follow

Oh God. After seeing this picture I was scared. For a child it can be a mental trauma.

I didn't go to your Facebook account for quite some time. Steemit get all my time :)

Very creepy. I quit FB years ago and haven't looked back since.

Using facebook is not very smart actually, thank for share

Which app did you use? I wasn't able to find auto-upload in my Android app.

steemit I think to grow to the presence of more than Facebook.
Early smartphone app I want out.
If so, it will spread more quickly.

Yes, I am continually astonished by how much people share about their personal lives, particularly their children and what they are doing.

Facebook is just a very weird place filled with people trying to grab attention by any means.