Overview
Twitter wants to connect family and friends
Twitter wants to make money
There is no money is connecting family and friends
So Twitter sells our data
Do you care?
business model
Twitter needed $$$ to get started.
Sought out Venture Capitalists.
Given $$ for the promise of more $$$$ down the road.
Intense pressure to perform.
More pressure after going public.
How do you make money?
How do you keep share holders happy?
How do you keep board happy?
How do you keep venture capitalists happy?
Sell people's information for advertising and data mining.
Selling data
It would blow our mind to learn how much companies want to know about us, about you.
Hard to put a dollar sign on it.
Privacy settings
All a placebo, for the most part.
Like elevator and cross walk buttons.
What does facebook have?
most likely:
all your contacts (phone numbers and names)
your home address
where and when you voted
which companies have you on their ad list
Links
If you wanna read more:
https://www.popsci.com/everything-facebook-knows-about-you
Download your data
if you wanna:
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/24/technology/facebook-data/index.html
