it’s pretty insane to see what the actual cost of such an easily accessible search engine is, in the loss of our online capital, that said i am currently typing this onto a google fronted note taking thing as we speak, because it is just so convenient and easy.

‘convenient and easy’, is that really worth the actual cost of how easily it is for our personalities to be quantified through our online habits that i get targeted with items and opportunities and i want to purchase and partake in (respectively) based on this?

sort of??

one of the key underlying arguments to feeling as if a stark lack of privacy is not that big a deal is that line of thought “i’m not doing anything wrong so it doesn’t effect me”, which is an interesting argument considering what is essentially happening is a stockpiling of me/you related data to grasp an understanding of my personality that might almost be more in key with who i am that i conceive who i am.

it worked for the two big controversial things to take place in trump/brexit, where people’s social media outputs were mined to really ascertain how they would appropriately be targeted.