Why not? My grandparents love looking through old photo albums. I don't see why I couldn't do the same with Facebook.
> It’s an advertiser’s dream and it is wildly expensive in terms of privacy lost and cash spent to steal that privacy.
A few problems with this. Op dates users freely gave away their data, but now advertisers are stealing it?
The same sentence can be said about the internet as a whole - but most people believe the benefits are worth it and op hasn't proved we don't get benefits from Facebook.
Lastly.. the article assumes allowing advertisers to use your data is inherently evil. I'm not arguing either way, but it's never explained. Lots of people believe that to be true, but I don't think you can just call advertisers "the devil" without an explanation. Why is op harmed by data collection (outside of nonsensical hypthotheticals, like getting his house robbed when he posts that he's on vacation?)
Why not? My grandparents love looking through old photo albums. I don't see why I couldn't do the same with Facebook.
> It’s an advertiser’s dream and it is wildly expensive in terms of privacy lost and cash spent to steal that privacy.
A few problems with this. Op dates users freely gave away their data, but now advertisers are stealing it?
The same sentence can be said about the internet as a whole - but most people believe the benefits are worth it and op hasn't proved we don't get benefits from Facebook.
Lastly.. the article assumes allowing advertisers to use your data is inherently evil. I'm not arguing either way, but it's never explained. Lots of people believe that to be true, but I don't think you can just call advertisers "the devil" without an explanation. Why is op harmed by data collection (outside of nonsensical hypthotheticals, like getting his house robbed when he posts that he's on vacation?)