SoCiAL MeDiA: PRoTeCTiNG You FRoM ReaLiTY...

. .     .   .   .   . .     .   .   WB7: Several items of interest surfaced over the Christmas Holiday with regard to Social Media Strip Mining and data cloud euphoria: 1. Facebook's privacy settings are evidently too complicated for Zuckerberg's sister to navigate. Not surporising, they are not designed for anyone to successfully navigate. If you succeed in mastering Facebook's privacy settings, you are in line for Krugman's Nobel. 2. Our Congress, which always has our best interests at heart do they not, managed to expunge the provision of the NDAA which would have required a warrant for government access to our email accounts.  3. Instagram, shifted into hyper-back-pedaling mode. Of course they want to convert user images to advertisements. Isn't that what Facebook wants to do? Stripmining user privacy. 4. "Facebook's Ne...