Have you ever wondered where information goes or how social media posts are used over time? It’s obvious that our privacy is deteriorating at a rapid speed. Companies are using our browser history, tweets, and such to create a portrait of who we are. With all of this going on in cyberspace, how safe are we? How can we prevent ourselves from getting caught up in the matrix? Billionaire Mark Cuban recently sat down with Inc to discuss this growing issue and why people should stop sharing so much information on the internet/social media. Every person you retweet, repin, repost, renote, regram on social media defines who you are. There are now applications that are collecting every bit of that and creating profiles about you and anticipating what you are going to do next. So by, what you do on social media, you are creating a profile about yourself. Cuban goes on to talk about how this “profile” will eventually become the standard in job background checks. He says that companies will be able to run an online/social media analysis of you and use it as a psychological profile. This profile will become used in other aspects such as legal cases as well. The best way to avoid or lessen your chances of being “profiled” is to refrain from posting and reposting information. He also suggests that people erase all of your tweets and retweets after a certain period of time. Of course, Cuban plugged one of his new apps Cyber Dust, which is similar to Snap Chat but it automatically erases text messages in 30 seconds. Yes, those messages you wish were gone, just vanishes into thin air. There’s also another app he’s working on called Expire. DO YOU AGREE WITH MARK CUBAN’S VIEWS ON HOW WE SHOULD TREAT SOCIAL MEDIA? Photo credit: FoxBusiness
