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Neža Zidanič

Why doesn't everyone 'social media stalk' a potential date? - Telegraph - 0 views

  • A new study has found that two thirds of single people ‘social media stalk’ before agreeing to go a date.
  • There have also been countless accounts in recent years of people not being able to even get a job because of a negative online identity prejudicing the interviewer.
  • as digital communication can be easily misconstrued
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  • Brilliantly the study also broke down what specific things during a good old social media stalk could break a date: an ugly mug shot, lack of humour, aggressive online behaviour, excessive flirting with others online and, my favourite one, oversharing
  • However, this light-hearted poll provides further proof of how we are increasingly judged every single day by our online personas.
  • Of those honest souls, 77 per cent claimed they had turned down a date as a result of something they found out about the said babe or hunk through social media.
  • However, while it’s important for both professional and increasingly personal reasons to be conscientious about what you post online, we do also need to remember that societal attitudes are still playing catch-up with the web.
  • All it takes is for one negative comment, or silly photo to be shared by someone else, and then a digital identity can be marred – giving a falsely negative impression of somebody.
  • The web can be unforgiving and is often out of our control.
  • he internet can do many things – but it simply cannot tell you whether you will get those unexplainable stomach butterflies when you meet your date in person.
Neža Zidanič

Warning over social networking 'snooping' technology - Telegraph - 0 views

  • New stalking software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour using data from social networking websites has been developed, it emerged today.
  • The sophisticated technology relies on websites such as Facebook and Twitter to build a detailed picture of people’s lives in a move that could raise concerns over breach of privacy and civil liberties.
  • t was claimed that the technology could be transformed into a "Google for spies" and used by governments as a means of monitoring and controlling people online.
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  • Users may be posting information that they believe will be viewed only by their friends, but instead, it is being viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like the Riot search."
Blaž Ulaga

You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting | The Nation - 0 views

  • Google was recently slapped with two fines
  • They provide false assurances that, in the normal course of things, our privacy is not being invaded on the Internet, that our personal data is safe, and that we are anonymous in our online—and offline—activities.
  • not a single incident, but a slow, unstoppable process of profiling who we are and what we do, to be sold to advertisers and marketing companies
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  • are making it their policy and business to profile us in detai
  • And so we are stalked in the pursuit of marketing optimization.
  • (96 percent of it from advertising
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