This post will not touch the "beneficial" sides of data mining in Social Networks. How this part work you can read about here. The sites we like to use needs to generate income and we should accept that.
We can choose to subscribe to, or use sites that we have payed for and which is not based upon ads and commercials. If we want something "for free" we have to accept commercial interests will find as effective ways as possible to reach their target audience. Thereby accepting that they use the information we put in to find products we might be interested in. This is done everywhere now.To balance this post a little I have chosen one video the shows this in a negative context, but remember to balance this out yourself:
What should not be accepted in that kind of data mining is that it is use non - beneficial for us as users. It should be illegal to use it in a way to gain a particular political interest or political view. The problems here is in the borders between national security and "police work". We have seen historical misuse of other tools under cover of legal work, and this should also be dealt with in the same way regarding social networks. So in basic: Don't do anything illegal, and do not accept anyone (governmental) doing anything illegal with the information you leave behind.
So yes there is easy ways to collect information from you and the point is that you should not be afraid of that until you do something illegal online or off line. Remember to think of what is illegal in your homeland and the land where the server of your social network is situated (this could be viewed upon as political differences but in basic you should just accept this rule).
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