Social media confessions thread

[Psamathe]

I have no intention of providing and personal data without knowing how it is to be used and stored/ processed.

Basic GDPR information is the least I would expect

However if others are happy to provide personal data without knowing how it will be used or stored, the go ahead

Whilst I don't use Social media (beyond a couple of special interest traditional forums like this one), I still take a fair few steps to protect my personal information as it's not only "Social Media" trying to harvest your information.

And beyond blocks, etc. to protect my details I recognise I wont be 100% secure so I use a number of fake IDs (with matching or hidden e-mails where necessary) so any info they do manage to harvest will be pretty useless.

Seems to work eg I don't like that political parties in UK get the right to the entire un-redacted electoral register for the entire country plus the record of which elections you voted in and which you didn't. So earlier this year I put "Subject Access Requests" in to all the UK Political Parties who had requested the register for my constituency. Conservative Party sent me 13 pages of info "about me" they had purchased from info brokers and amalgamated with other sources and it was a complete load of drivel, pretty well everything wrong (they hadn't been able to get credit score or financial info).

Ian

 

[monkers]

Well this soon got very weird.

On the upside it did make me reconsider Facebook - so this evening I've ditched it. Now I am only here, but then not for long.

 

["slow horse" aka "another sam"]

Social media was how we identified the trans identifying man who barged into the middle of an intimate exam my wife was getting at a hospital not long ago. He stood there gawping at her for as long as it took one of the nurses to push him out. It turns out he had an account on Twitter. I'm not going to dox him, but it was goddamn tempting.

Years ago I used a forum to find hosts (including free B&Bs!) for an end-to-end.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I went onto FB in about 2007 and it was a real novelty to catch up with friends that I hadn't see since 1997. These days I'm still on it but I have unfollowed pretty much everyone. My partner posts a lot of stuff on there but mostly so she can look back on the memories when they pop up in x years time which is quite nice. I usually just look at marketplace now to find cheap/free stuff before I go and buy new. Whatssapp has taken over for comms purposes; we have a family group where we share pictures of our kids so mum and dad can see

 

["slow horse" aka "another sam"]

Whatssapp has taken over for comms purposes

Same here, at least with one sister. The other is on FB and we're occasionally in touch using Messenger, whose format I loathe. With my mom it's still the old-fashioned phone (AFAIK there is no reception where my dad went a few years ago). She's not even online ~ horror of horrors! I've never tried to change her mind, and am not sure it would be wise at this point in her life anyway.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Same here, at least with one sister. The other is on FB and we're occasionally in touch using Messenger, whose format I loathe. With my mom it's still the old-fashioned phone (AFAIK there is no reception where my dad went a few years ago). She's not even online ~ horror of horrors! I've never tried to change her mind, and am not sure it would be wise at this point in her life anyway.

I also hate the format of FB Messenger. It needs binning but some people are still on there and don't use whatsapp. And I'm darned if I'm using all that old "phoning" or "texting" malarky

 

[matticus]

And I'm darned if I'm using all that old "phoning" malarky

Yeah. Who wants to actually speak to other humans??

And why sort out something in a 2-minute phone-call, when you can string it out over a day and 20 messages, potentially still misunderstanding each-other?!? pffft