Like anything, I think if you, like me, believe strongly in personal privacy, you’ll consider this idea of staying off social media for 48 hours from the 4th to the 5th of July 2019. (If you’re in the states that’s 7\/4\/19-7\/5\/19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-48825410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Why is this important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We do not own our own data if posted to social media. Why? It’s our data… But it helps the social media organisations, most especially Facebook, know who we are, what we like, what we do and – most importantly – what that might translate to for advertising placement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know many understand that they are the commodity, but is your data being used for good or…?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m all for a 48 hour self-imposed ban, even if now that only means Instagram or Twitter as I deactivated Facebook because I no longer trust the platform. (Equally those who matter the most to me have my details and often communicate to me that way, rather than the Facebook route).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like anything, I think if you, like me, believe strongly in personal privacy, you’ll consider this idea of staying off social media for 48 hours from the 4th to the 5th of July 2019. (If you’re in the states that’s 7\/4\/19-7\/5\/19). https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-48825410 Why is this important? We do not own our own data if posted … Continue reading “Could you do without social media for 48 hours?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}