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A social network knows much more than your friends, maybe more than your relatives know about you.
Social networks are young peoples’ favorite virtual environments in which creating new network based on social relationships
but are we totally sure that our privacy is really protected?
In spite of their several good sides social networks can become real traps
for all those guys used to use them with superficiality only thinking to
increase their interaction with the whole world
But how can we understand how the social network use our personal information?
First of all the “never read contracts” are the starting point to have an idea
about how social networks use all the information (photos, video…) and so on we upload
But would most users may collect is that every single action on a social network
contributes to enrich our personal profile, which is available not only to
our friends or contacts, but also (mainly) to the social network itself.
Are you going to upload some photos?
Ok, no problem, but please remember that immediately after the upload’s completion
each photo (or video) is duplicated in hundreds of copies, one for each social network’s server
and please remember that every single user able to see your photos can also
download them on his own PC and do with them whatever he wants.
Do you love pizza?
Do you love mountains?
Do you play chess?
Well, each time you communicate such a kind of information to your friends using a
social network, first of all you’re telling them to the social network itself
which sees users and their profiles growing day by day…
Well, those profiles are used to perform customed advertising promotion
so, if you are vegetarian you’ll never see banners about BBQs events
and in general every social network user becomes a commercial target, each one with its own purchasing trends
What’s wrong with all that?
Maybe nothing, but we do believe that everyone has to consider how social networks know almost everything about us
In this way will be sure to use those charming tools in a funny, useful, but also SAFEWAY.