Be Not Deceived
Over the few months when technology has climbed the walls of future where almost any and everything you need and want to do is possible, many people bloggers, news journalists and TV personnel have found their ways into the hearts and subconscious of the not-so tech savvy people like myself.
Some of the posts and reports would scare you to the point
of not wanting anything to do with your cell and mobile phones let alone turn
on computers both at home and at the work places, or wherever you use them. I
must confess that, in writing we find the best way to appeal to the readership
in that you are made to look everyday life from a different perspective; better
or even stranger than it seems to you.
I followed the post "Facebook Crosses The Line
With New Facebook Messenger App"of Nick Russo published
on the website here on August 7, 2014 6:18 AM. I share in the concerns raised in the comments
and how much fear gripped most and I couldn't force myself to imagine what the reactions
of those who followed the ‘shared and re-shares’ of the article.
The so-called privacy policies
as raised by Nick
Russo (and how he
spelled it out according to his understanding for his readers sounded pretty much
convincing to let anybody throw his phone away or switch it off for a very long
time given the way and manner the phones have been used, with Facebook Apps
alone. Most people manage their businesses through that same Facebook App and
very sensitive information is handled through that same app so telling people
how ill (or much worse) using such apps are could hurt the feelings and trusts
these people have invested in technology.
I
want to illustrate an instance here where I want just one person especially
those bloggers and news reporters to tell me for a fact that the developers of
such apps don’t use the apps themselves or they design their own special for
their own greed. Obviously, Mark Zuckerberg uses these and more of these apps. Even before Facebook could
be this popular, various apps have been in circulation and in use until technology
of our time has become this much expanded.
Most Android and Apple apps use
these same privacy policies as required of all users to be able to match search
preferences of users. The most common of such reasons is the fact that most
people in their early Forties have had a manual way of keeping records most of
which were never computerized and so in using such information the apps would
be able to match various phone numbers, names, email addresses etc that have
same similarities.
One of the best benefits, in my
opinion, of using such privacy policies is to help the trouble of finding those
contacts we personally know but have different names and addresses on Facebook
and other social networking sites. I would only cite this instance, and not get
much into detail, for I believe many users of the said apps would attest to
this as fact. Need I say more? Many people have signed up on one or more social
networks for email accounts or social profiles, most of which demand your
personal information. These we gladly input ourselves and submit without any
feeling of having given out sensitive information but we see everything wrong
with Instant Messaging (IM) apps of which Facebook Messenger has become the scapegoat.
Why not Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Mail, Badoo, Twitter, Hangout (formerly Google Talk), Oovoo, Skype, Okcupid, LinkedIn, Nimbuzz, Tango, Miumeet, Skout, Mo+ just to mention but these few. Almost every app you must already have or would love to install on your mobile phone now would have access to all these information and make good use of them way more than you would ever have even if you use this mobile phone for your entire lifetime. Not fair guys!
Why not Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Mail, Badoo, Twitter, Hangout (formerly Google Talk), Oovoo, Skype, Okcupid, LinkedIn, Nimbuzz, Tango, Miumeet, Skout, Mo+ just to mention but these few. Almost every app you must already have or would love to install on your mobile phone now would have access to all these information and make good use of them way more than you would ever have even if you use this mobile phone for your entire lifetime. Not fair guys!
I don’t think we should blame much
on Facebook or similar app and their developers, or much less suspect them for developing such apps to the benefits of
users simply because, in demanding more of technology, our IT Specialists also
burn their midnight candles to supply to meet our high demands. Must we blame
them for providing what we ask for?
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