Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Why social networks aren't all that.
You lose exclusive rights to the images you are posting.
You are limited the size are quality of the images you are uploading.
You don't have as much control over who sees the images.
I honestly don't believe that all my added friends want to see everything.
I worry about the way the world moves very swiftly towards facial recognition software without a discussion of its merits and pitfalls. Instead we are all automatically signed up for something we know reliability little about. I mean were you offered the choice whether it or not you wanted your face to be recorded. Could the reason for this be because almost certainly most of us would not have wanted it.
With the rise of fraud and identity theft it is truly a terrifying prospect that a non government organization has control of one of our most personal of attributes, our faces. Could this potential for terrifying power be one of the reasons it was adopted?
So friends what is the solution?
I now upload all my pictures to my own personal site.
Yes i pay for the hosting and yes the upload takes longer and yes you need to have some web skill to set it up. BUT it is worth it to know that your not contributing to untested with unknown consequences.
So try setting up your own sites and uploading your own pictures via a FTP.
My methodology is different to the way these company's are run and therefore i will not contribute towards them as i used to.
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