In light of recent Facebook hoaxes, this is a fun time for Terms of Use education! To use a platform, you must accept its terms of use. This is true of Facebook, your bank, Amazon, as well as literally every single legitimate website on this internet. Sites in particular dont even require you to click accept--merely being on the site is an implicit accept of the sites terms of service. Once you accept a platforms legally binding contract, nothing can break it sans discontinuing use of the platform. Often, even this wont break it (i.e. they own the data they collect, forever and ever, instantly upon collection). These are the outlined terms. You use it; they do what they please with your data, with practically no restrictions. Therefore, if you dont like how Facebook uses your data, stop using Facebook. This is the only way out. There is no setting you can turn on, no status you can post, and literally nothing--at all--that you can do to stop Facebook from mining and marketing your data. This is the cost of using their platform. In some ways, freaking out about this makes you sound ungrateful. Youre using insanely powerful browser software to achieve instant information communication with friends and strangers around the globe--FOR FREE! Facebook (or any internet company) pays millions just to keep the servers running, so the least you could do is allow a little hyper-aggressive content marketing into your eyeballs. On the other hand, it sucks that tech. corporations have no oversight in how they use (y)our data. Were currently living life trapped in a George Saunders story. If we all stopped using these poisons, wed probably rebound as a species and be better than ever before! Or maybe wed catch a plague. Whos to say? If youre still concerned, theres a way out, theres still hope: unplug your machine and cease all internet access. Good luck!
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:00:28 +0000
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