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RE: AskSteemit: What was that Facebook suggestion that made you wonder "how did it know?"?
For me it was logging into Instagram, for the first time, without connecting to facebook, but it was already suggesting me to follow people that I had as friends on Facebook.
And second but more important:
I stayed in train next to a guy I have never seen before, had a talk with him for about two hours (some people are just friendly) and when I got to my destination, Instagram was suggesting me to follow him!
Do you even believe that Instagram was tracing our phones through GPS and it knew that we stayed next to each other for two hours so we should be friends...
How sick these things can get?
That is really disgusting...
I feel that it is still too late for me, and for us as a population right now. I have already sold my soul to these guys by uploading so much data about me when I was still a kind in highschool and now it simply can't be removed, like my birthday, my real name and other things.
I stopped being active there, just sharing songs right now, so I can pollute it, but as I said, too late... This company will never run out of business, the social media they have built has a lot of money around and can not lose value. They are buying everything which can be bought, like they did with Instagram (and they tried with Snapchat too I guess).
Maybe with Steem it will be a different case, but as the power they have, I don't think these platforms even compare. We still have problems with user retention and many others that we need to solve...
User retention has been one of the major things I've put a lot of time, energy and sacrificed a lot of rewards for in the past through the @ocd group. An analysis showed that over 74% of the authors we have nominated and rewarded with votes and views/followers were still posting and 85% still voting, this analysis was done before the intial pump passed $2.
I wish projects like those would get some more support and delegation than businesses making thousands of rewards through beneficiaries and barely helping retention rates. Oh well.
@acidyo i'm new in steemit.i post my #introduceyourself.can you see and support me!
I know you have made efforts for user base increase, this is a thing that I (and more than sure many others) really appreciate!
Holy lord, this is the worst case I have heard before. Now imagine a scenario where the guy was a known terrorist and was suspected to have met someone on that train. With what you are saying now, it means you sure would be been getting some water boarding torture in an undisclosed facility just because you sat next to someone on a train.
It's pretty disgusting what these companies are doing with our data. And who knows what else they have been digging and selling out for profit.