Hey welcome to steemit. You seem really interesting, I enjoyed reading your post and feel like I could disagree in a number ways, I do on another hand totally agree.. I mean many of these social media and tagging techniques and such can and have been very useful for small business and artists and alternative media and on and on, like most technology it is a double edged sword, though I do agree with you that there is a very dark nefarious side and it is kinda scary to think about and it is sad more people don't care or pay much if any attention to it.
Good luck with your efforts here on steemit and elsewhere! Upvoted and I followed you.
Thanks for taking the time to read and reflect. Too many people simply have a knee-jerk reaction to these types of things. Probably because it is really hard to think about and consider the dark/nefarious side of googe/facebook/etc... I can't argue that, to some, there are benefits to using those types of companies. However, it would be nice if our personal information and communications were not part of the business model. Having it that way makes it very tempting to a government to snoop by penalizing or rewarding private companies who cooperate. Since death by government (democide) is by far the leading cause of death for humankind, I'd feel much better if they didn't know all there was to know about all of us.
You're welcome. I agree. Though I kind of go about it with the mindset of, anything I put online is public information. There is no privacy on the internet.
Kind of like if you decide to walk outside of your house naked, people will see you and you either care or don't.
Almost everything is stored, and.. I don't really see a way around that, though maybe technology will solve the problem and somehow allow for more privacy on the internet future. But for now.. i just treat it like everything is public.. Cause if you're a good enough hacker, or the government.. It is. Heh.