Holly wrote:Cactus Jack wrote:I think both Twitter and Facebook are becoming increasingly irrelevant either way.
When was the last time you saw an ad on either Facebook or Twitter and thought 'Oh I must buy that'?
Let me click on this link to who knows where and give someone I don't know permission to take all my personal data from my Twitter/Facebook account and share it with whoever the fuck they want?'
If one good thing came out of the Brexit referendum and election of Donald Trump it was the exposure of just how much data was being put out there by social media users and just how easy it was to use that data to manipulate them using it,
At it's most relevant Twitter was only the fifth most used social media platform and when I last heard it's way down at 15th - just barely above reddit.
Pretty soon this Forum will have more users, and I'm not expecting stoo to get a few million more members
Doesn't that work with all adds online no matter which platform you're using?
No but it all gets a bit technical and boring beyond that word.
Some companies, and some platforms, and some countries have rules that restrict what data that can be collected, shared and used. There are different interpretations about the level and specificity of consent required to have your personal data shared.
I'll give credit to this forum because it doesn't have ads and it doesn't collect personal data - stoo says he operates the forum at a small profit, and more power to him, but I have no idea how. And while we're in that space all due gratitude to the moderators like yourself who (I understand) work unpaid to keep this place running.