Not just TikToc but ALL “social media,” not to mention “smart” everything, seduces its users, or should I say its suckers, with a seemingly fun, useful, convenient, and easy-to-use app and interface. The media & app providers, ALL of them, then quietly data mine their victims and learn everything possible about them, all the while the victim is unawares. That data is then processed, sold, and resold and put to any number of untoward uses, which can range from targeting annoying advertising to users, to law enforcement. to crafted political propaganda and manipulation, to many types of security breaching including actual spying. Then there are all of the downright evil exploiters actively using “social media” and messing people up. All well and good (you think?) if it’s Americans doing all of that skulduggery, but horrors if it’s the Chinese, right? Social media and "smart"everything is itself the REAL pandemic of our time.
Not just TikToc but ALL “social media,” not to mention “smart” everything, seduces its users, or should I say its suckers, with a seemingly fun, useful, convenient, and easy-to-use app and interface. The media & app providers, ALL of them, then quietly data mine their victims and learn everything possible about them, all the while the victim is unawares. That data is then processed, sold, and resold and put to any number of untoward uses, which can range from targeting annoying advertising to users, to law enforcement. to crafted political propaganda and manipulation, to many types of security breaching including actual spying. Then there are all of the downright evil exploiters actively using “social media” and messing people up. All well and good (you think?) if it’s Americans doing all of that skulduggery, but horrors if it’s the Chinese, right? Social media and "smart"everything is itself the REAL pandemic of our time.