Social media sites can predict your behavior even if you don’t use them

guest · Feb 4, 2019

Social media sites can predict your behavior even if you don’t use them
February 3, 2019
https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/social-media-privacy-friends-prediction/

Bad news for people who are trying to preserve their privacy by staying off social media — a new study has found that your privacy is at risk even if you are not personally using social media sites.
The findings of researchers from the University of Vermont show that “privacy on social media is like second-hand smoke. It’s controlled by the people around you.”

They found that using information from the tweets of a few of someone’s contacts — just eight or nine friends — made it possible to predict that person’s tweets as accurately as using data from their own Twitter feed.
This means that it’s possible to predict your Twitter content from seeing your friends’ tweets, even without having access to your Twitter.

[...] individuals cannot personally control the way that their information is spread through social media. Even if you never join a social media site it is still possible to profile you through your friends and for companies or governments [...]
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“There’s no place to hide in a social network,” says Lewis Mitchell, co-author of the study. Bagrow agrees: “You alone don’t control your privacy on social media platforms. Your friends have a say too.”
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mirimir · Feb 4, 2019

Yeah, but none of my meatspace friends know about Mirimir. And none of Mirimir's online friends know anything about me in meatspace.

So it's not a problem

Floyd 57 · Feb 4, 2019

Jokes on them I have no friends

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