[DISCUSSION] Facebook, Google+, Instagram ... are evil??

Social networks are evil. What do you think?

  • Yes they are. They are maybe using us for very dirty causes too

    Votes: 1 100.0%

  • Oh No, what you are saying is literally wrong

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
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omediadon

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As a developer, I know to the utmost that when one can build a system, he would do whatever he wants with it, even if not complying to the norms. And a company selling it's visitors like Facebook or analyzing them like Google would use the data collected for evil. Humans are not angels, everybody has sins and I assume that's theirs.

What do you think?
 
Tytoowns

Tytoowns

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In my opinion, its all subjective really. what some my see as evil, others may think nothing of it. For example, windows 10 spying on its users. Some don't care at all and some other people are really passionate about it. personally i wouldn't call them evil even though i do disagree with some of the things that they do. I mean evil is a really strong word and you cant group all the social networking sites and call them all evil as they are not all the same. some are better than others and some are worse than others.
 
Barnum4000

Barnum4000

Moderator
They have access to spy on you and sell your information to companies but besides from that, I don't think they will do much with your information unless you were to do something illegal. Spying could potentially help because of the information gained can be used to improve the social media platform.

But ultimately if you don't like it then don't use it.
 
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omediadon

New member
Barnum4000 said:
They have access to spy on you and sell your information to companies but besides from that, I don't think they will do much with your information unless you were to do something illegal. Spying could potentially help because of the information gained can be used to improve the social media platform.

But ultimately if you don't like it then don't use it.
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Okay, If I won't use it, that would not solve the issue. We're basically discussing whether what they do is some act of "evil" (even if the word is too strong some think).
If we'd have a conclusion about the matter, other users in here can determine their position and that's what is intended by this post.

Let's say we're not doing something illegal (which we are), possessing too much info about someone's persnal life is very dangerous. Like Google for instance does, they take random voice clip recorded using your phone without you know (as most people) or if you'd know about that previously to their act you'd most probably be that one in a million who doesn't care about the fact that someone is ruining his "e-life"!

Regards
 
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