Confront the Social Media Threat
At the risk of stating the obvious, social implies interaction with other people, which is somewhat at odds with privacy. On the internet, it’s best to think of “social” as synonymous with “public” (even though that’s not necessarily true), because once you’ve shared something online—in any of a hundred senses of sharing—whoever you’ve shared it with can, in turn, share it with someone else. And, since most social media is ad-supported, both the services themselves and the advertisers that pay to promote their stuff on them would like to know as much about you as possible—again, a situation hard to reconcile with any definition of privacy.
As a result, the very best advice I can give you about privacy when it ...
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