Facebook And Your Personal Information

Think about it. A social media site knows more about the past 10 years of your life than you do.

That’s right, Facebook’s new “10 year recap” of your life is just downright scary.

The other day my news feed became loitered with videos of everyone’s past 10 years on Facebook. I don’t know whether to laugh aloud at how stupid the whole idea is or to just feel sorry for people. I don’t need Facebook to create a video to tell me how the last 10 years of my life went and neither should you. If you do, that is plain sad. In reality, my video would be boring as hell. Why? Well, because I don’t post much personal stuff to Facebook. It is NOT private and anything you post, whether you like it or not, is ‘out on the internet’ forever. Take that however you wish to take it, but it’s true.

All those photos of your half-naked babies and check-ins at your exact location of “your new crib” you just built have a solid possibility of being made available to the entire world one day. Facebook will be hacked, eventually. It’s only a matter of time. Many large companies are succumbing to this now-a-days. All of your data, photos, and information are not stored on your local computer — it is out there, in “the cloud”. In the hands of OTHER people. I don’t trust that. I don’t even know what “that” is.

I refused to even watch the pathetic 10 year video clip of my Facebook moments, I could care less. I hope it is boring as all hell because that just means I have been smart as to what I have put on Facebook in the past 10 years. I hope you have too. I remember watching a video clip a year or two ago about hackers. The subject was in regards to information being shared on social media sites and the internet. One quote caught my attention and it has always served as a firm warning in the back of my head before I go putting things out on the internet now-a-days. The young kid told the audience, “hackers are like car thieves, if they want to break into your car.. THEY WILL. Simple as that. It’s up to you how many valuables you leave in it.”

I don’t need a social media site to “recap” the last 10 years of my life. I have lived my own past 10 years and I can recap it perfectly fine myself. So, be careful what personal stuff you put out there. Because, in the end, you are not the one guarding all of your information.