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- Bennn0
Instagram is probably the worst of them all
- because?Krassy
- This is the ultimate "compare your life to other and be depressed" social media and ... too much thing to say and i'm too lazy to write atmBennn
- Psychologist rate Instagram as most harmful social mediarobotron3k
- I only follow shit I'm interested. Artists, brands, pubs.. I don't see anyone comparing shitty lives. Instagram is great, you just need to know how to use it.set
- interested in..*set
- ^ This applies to just about every social media format.CyBrainX
- Krassy5
Absorbed by Light - Amsterdam Light Festival
- capn_ron3
I keep reading all these data breaches, and information sharing about Facebook. Serious question, why is anyone on there still? or are they not, i haven't been on in so long I don't even know what is happening anymore.
I left becuase i was reading posts from people i didn't even talk to in high school and they were nonsense. Now i just like to read nonsense posts on qbn :)
- Nairn2
I just the other day set up an FB account, as there's a professionally-oriented group that's of relevance to me here in LDN that apparently I need to keep an eye on.
I gotta say - the interface is weirdly bland and clinical. I'm surprised (i'm not) that some of the DIY charm of the old MySpace days hasn't been allowed. It seems odd to me all these bright young ditzy things spending so many hours in a rigidly-prescribed engineer's data-vacuum warehouse.
- Did you like MySpace?zarkonite
- I'm not sure I liked any of it, but I made a few MySpace pages and kept my own updated as some weird, overly excited and utterly inconsequential effort.Nairn
- "Do you like QBN?"
I'm not sure, but I've somehow managed to keep coming back for nearly twenty fucking years.Nairn - I happened recently to come across some old graphics I did for [well-known LDN club]'s MySpace presence back in the day. there was a certain joy there, for sureNairn
- QBN is turning into a social network? I stay here a lot more now than on Fb. In unfollowed everybody on Fb, my "feed" is empty, use it only for events and bdaysgrafician
- Krassy2
- thischukkaphob
- Fast forward to min 2:35Krassy
- https://www.youtube.…pango
- Ramanisky23
I lol’ed
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80% - You're a moron
20% - wait is she finally going to help with the bills around here?_niko
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- omahadesigns0
I downloaded Threads knowing I wouldn't use it. Now I can't delete it without deleting IG?
I like IG cuz I'm a visual person who likes sharing and looking at nice things.
I don't want to type random things.
Never had an urge to sign up for twitter.
- Always read the fine print...OBBTKN
- you can delete the app. it's deleting the threads account that deletes the Instagram account.shapesalad
- For such a visual person you never post any images at all on this forum.PhanLo
- Yes he does, he always posts something hilarious in the QBN Mugs thread.Nairn
- ^that should be an instant ban.PhanLo
- grafician-1
^
"Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, is drawing users at an astounding pace, amassing 10 million signups in just seven hours, according to co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. But the highly-anticipated new service, which requires an Instagram account for onboarding, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads account requires deleting the linked Instagram account.
In a ‘Supplemental Privacy Policy,’ Meta explains: “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.”
The rationale, Meta elaborates on the policy page, is that a Threads profile is part of the user’s Instagram account. The discovery of this stipulation has surprised many users."
- let me thread that on threader.shapesalad
- fuck social media. It's on par with junk food. Long live QBN!shapesalad
- can't wait for the accidental deletion of tons of instagram accounts by mistakegrafician
- "10 million signups in just seven hours, according to co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg" lol. Sounds very believable coming from that guy.Krassy
- lol it's basically instagram but text-versiongrafician
- knowing them there's probably some ambiguous message in IG and if you click "ok" you've signed up or created a shadow sign up thingSquiddy
- It's way closer to Twitter than Instagram. I don't love Zuckerberg but I enjoy seeing another nail in Twitter's coffin.CyBrainX
- tank022
We are amusing ourselves to death.
- AQUTE2
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- K I don’t trust TikTok but this dude is an idiotnb
- watch the end where she destroys him with outside research and he just interrupts and and claims she’s not allowed to talk and is talkin over HIM!nb
- NBQ000
Some girl in the train is sitting in front of me and I can see her phone screen. I don’t really watch the details but it’s in my field of view so I can recognize what’s going on more or less.
In this one hour train ride she’s been probably writing 100’s of quick messages back and forth on instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Snapchat and so on. Just flipping and switching from one app to another and from one person she’s chatting to another. In between she’s browsing feeds (looking at other people’s posts & pictures and videos) for a couple of seconds before messaging again.
FFS, what has this world come to. Kill me now.
- this is why hollywood is dying. Snapchat killed the hollywood starhotroddy
- Sound track to you post https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- *yourshapesalad
- you spent a lot of time looking at this girl... enough to know she went through 100s of messages and apps....pango
- maybe stare at girls less so you wouldn't need to ask to be killed off?pango
- No pango, it was in my field of view. I was looking out of the window most of the time but I could still notice what was happening.NBQ00
- Alright. In that case , you should ask the girl to apologize for ruining your day.pango
- What a cunt she couldn't behave in a way that is proper to NBQpango
- lolNBQ00
- nb3
A number of people tweeting this week that Twitter isn’t just “the town square” but is actually “the whole world.”
Quick estimate: 90 to 97% of people on earth DON’T have a twitter account.
Let’s be glad most of the world doesn’t have a twitter handle
- Gardener3
.If you want to ameliorate your "footprint" at least somewhat, here are some reasonably simple things you can do (a lot of them are obvious):
- Delete (or at least stop using) all social media accounts. They've already got everything they need to build a profile on you, but quitting now will at least make it harder for that to continue. Unless you're a very active user, you'd be surprised how quickly you lose the "need" for them once they're gone. If you have to use social media for work, create separate profiles just for that and only use them when absolutely necessary. If you can dedicate a machine/network just for that, even better.
- Stop using as many Google products and services as possible, including Gmail. This is probably one of the harder ones, but it's worth doing whatever you can (i.e. using DuckDuckGo as a search engine, never using Google Chrome as a browser, not using stock Android on your phone, not using Gmail for important/personal emails). ProtonMail is a great alternative for e-mail, and Firefox/Brave/DuckDuckGo are all good browser alternatives. If you must use Google accounts, tweak the privacy settings as much as you can to opt out of "personalization".
- Use a VPN and browser extensions. Firefox is probably the best browser for selection of privacy-enhancing extensions, and comes with a lot of good options within the browser itself. Depending on how stringent you want to be, some of them can make your internet activity a bit more fiddly (certain pages breaking, constantly having to re-enter logins or verifying accounts etc.) but I'd say uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes and Google/Facebook "container" extensions are essential for preventing these companies from tracking your activity across the web. VPNs don't offer as much protection as some people assume, but every hurdle helps, and it's worth paying a little for a good one.
- Keep phone apps (and usage) to a minimum. Depending on how careful you are with your settings, a lot of apps will subtly run in the background, gather location data or even access your microphone. Delete any apps that you don't use often, you can always re-download them if needed. It's a good idea to limit your phone to essentials anyway, for more than just privacy reasons (I also keep my phone on grayscale most of the time, which makes it less appealing to idly fiddle with). There's no popular smartphone that's particularly privacy friendly out-of-the-box, but iPhone/iOS is probably the lesser of all evils (unless you're tech-savvy enough to install an open source OS like Graphene on an Android phone).
- Try to only use privacy-respecting messaging apps. Signal is probably the best option, but Telegram will do as it's more widely-used. This one can be hard because you're sort of limited to what everyone else is already using (Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger etc.), but try to use those ones as little as possible. Apparently iMessage isn't a bad option if you're on iPhone with other iPhone users, but since it's not open source it's hard to be sure.
- Don't use your real name or other identifying details anywhere online unless absolutely necessary. A lot of the things you sign up for don't actually need to know your real name and birthday in order to work, so don't give it to them. And keep separate email addresses for different purposes (i.e. one for personal, one for work, a few for various different sign-ups etc.) This helps "diversify" your internet profile. It extends to in-person "sign-ups" as well (shops, restaurants etc.) If they don't "need" your phone number or home/e-mail address, don't give it to them.
Those are a few things which seem the most important for reducing your digital footprint. I'm not especially tech-savvy myself, so I'm sure many of you will have other/better suggestions, or will be able to explain why some of mine are bollocks. I've also found https://www.privacytools.io/ to have good information and resources if you're interested.
