All of a sudden in the late 00's everyone signed up and started giving and receiving info.
Why did people take the centralized bait? How did we not see the writing on the wall as a collective?
People allowed their kids to sign onto this? How?
Please, someone describe the climate at the time that allowed this major blunder to happen across the entire country.
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[–] GutterTrash 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Because at the time it was innocuous as Myspace, to put it into perspective, there was no concept of data harvesting and loss of privacy. I used it briefly and then stopped when I realized that people were taking the time and effort to like and subscribe to COMPANIES just so they can get advertised to. It sounded retarded, so I unplugged ASAP.
This was also an era where Web 2.0 was just starting and most people were not that into tech at the time. As such, these social media sites became the perfect haven for diddling children, since it seemed there was article after article of kids getting raped with no end in sight.
Now a days everyone and everything is connected and there is enough accessibility of information to see how dangerous these sites are.
And not everyone is completely redpilled on the matter so you have many people to this day gleefully subscribing their information and freedom to these platforms.