I feel like that's an nagging thing that everyone knows they should, but everybody also freely admit that
they don't really.
Terms and conditions—I want to say that I'm better than anyone else, but no
I'm gonna scroll to the bottom and click that checkmark. Slam that checkmark.
I think that I'm going to read them, and I feel like it's important to read them
but I don't because, you know, how much time do you have?
I don't really terms and services all. Usually I'll, like, give it a skim.
I don't know how many times I've clicked that button.
Like, especially when you have to scroll to make it active—like they try to force you
to at least engage with the terms.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I'm lying in bed no I should get up and
get on with my day, but instead I go on Facebook and scroll for a few minutes.
I'm on it every day, several times a day.
A lot.
I have friends that post, like, these huge blocks of text
like they're writing essays on Facebook. I don't do any of that.
I lurk online more than I post online but I still use Facebook, if that makes sense.
I share photos of, you know, myself my friends, what I'm doing, what I'm eating.
I think us Millennials are kind of used to
just giving out our emails or giving out our phone numbers in exchange to use
whatever app is cool at the time.
Waiting for the bus, or whatever. It's sort of, like a reflex almost.
I like looking at pictures of pugs. I like looking at pictures of food.
I don't think you could really get a good grasp of my
personality by looking at my Facebook or my Twitter.
Alright, I'm in. Where should I go?
OK, OK, so interests
So I'm in the interests section of my Facebook profile
Oh yeah, the interests are dead on. Everything.
It's like it's they have my life.
I have a very wide variety of interests, so it's not surprising to see all these in here.
It knows what my phone is, it knows what my iOS is
Oh, man
These are all about right.
“Food and drink: beer, chocolate, coffee, barbecue”
“juice fasting” — that was like three years ago.
It looks pretty accurate.
Some of my interests are accurate, like The Bachelor
I'm very interested in The Bachelor.
It does say that I'm interested in lawns
which I'll tell you I am not.
“nature” OK, “hotels, falling in love”
How is that a hobby and activity?
I like all these things. These are the exact things I do on the internet.
It says I like Airbnb. I book a lot of Airbnbs.
Yeah, oh, it's like, “people living in households where one or more people are not immediate or extended family.”
That's correct; I live with my girlfriend.
I don't know how they'd know that.
Yeah, I feel like that's all pretty accurate.
Yeah it's very accurate. It's like, out of ten I guess
would be like 9 out of 10 I mean it has pretty much everything I've like done here.
“Feng shui.” What?
This is a problem it says I like soccer
which I definitely do not.
I wouldn't say that this sums me up in total like if somebody didn't know me
and looked at my hobbies and activities as per what Facebook thinks they are I
know I don't think they'd have the right picture.
So, this is a real snapshot of who I was
in first year university and really not much else.
I think I could be a lot safer with my personal information than I am.
I'll be walking past a really cool restaurant or I'll search for it on my laptop and then
the next day an ad is in my Instagram feed.
You know, our behaviour online is being tracked a lot more closely than I think most of us realize.
Yeah, I don't like them having a time capsule of my entire life
online that anybody could mine and exploit.
Yeah that's kind of freaky.
If they're just looking for things about my life to send me targeted ads and stuff like that
then, like, sure whatever.
I think that I'm actually kind of really boring.
If you want to know that I'm a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays, feel free. Have at it Facebook.
Go ahead.
I think just a little bit more education and transparency would be great.
from brands like Facebook.
Facebook is basically breathing in your data and selling it for billions of dollars.
The valuation is huge. So, people need to be aware of what their data is worth.
After hearing about, like, just the the power that having
all of this information gives certain, you know, entities
and how it was all just happening under the surface and us as like regular people
had no idea that we were being—
like it's creepy; that's like dystopian stuff.
As it became clear that there were more and more damaging things happening like
more leaks more hacks that were leaking millions of accounts from you know
whatever the case may be Uber or Equifax or LinkedIn or I'm sure
everyone, at this point, probably, every big company has had some sort of leak.
It just became too—too hard to ignore.
got all these musicians and rappers and politicians
that I kind of follow so I guess you could get a pretty good gist of where I
might align on the political spectrum.
I think the idea of—that my data is tracked
to help with marketing is something that I've always been pretty aware of
and it seems like a very straightforward use for that.
So, it's more of like the unknown unknowns that kind of freak me out.
I definitely believe that they're also scanning messages, just based off experiences I have, so,
Facebook I know you're listening and I don't like it