This
blog is going to be a little different than usual. I’m going to use my words to
describe my feelings about social media. I cannot stand the direction that
social media is going. It seems like everything is starting to get too
personal. Google and Facebook are guilty of this. The internet was made to make
everything a lot easier, but it seems like it’s been used more for invading
people’s privacy. If people had a better sense of what was going on than this
would all probably stop. Nobody asks why this happens. Google started off very
helpful, but it seems like they’re trying to control the world with all the
companies they’re buying and how much they’ve been expanding. Google is
definitely becoming a monopoly, and I believe it should be time for someone to
step in and stop them. Google recently purchased YouTube. That’s also a very
heavily populated website. Google is making money off the ads from the website.
They are literally trying to take over the internet and smaller search engines
like Bing don’t have a chance. They are almost the same thing, but Google has
more users which brings in more money for them and they get to buy more online
property to make even more money. Amazon started looking into robotics to
deliver their packages which would make deliveries happen a lot faster and it
would also make it more efficient because they wouldn’t have to send out trucks
anymore because the electronic helicopters can deliver the packages instead of
sending out the trucks. This I assume threated Google, so they went out and purchased
8 electronic companies the most prominent of them being Boston Dynamics. If you
don’t know anything about Boston Dynamics I’ll explain what they make real
quick. They make electronic moving animals basically. I recommend you look them
up because my description isn’t doing them must justice. The thing with this is
Google now owns them. Google can have them make anything for them. Why does
Google need these companies? What are they trying to make with all of these
electronic companies? They have no need to deliver anything with them. They
could have picked up this company to make sure that Amazon wouldn’t. I just don’t
understand why Google needs all this stuff. It doesn’t even matter to them.
They pretty much just want to control everything. I got really sidetracked.
Back to social media. It seems like no one can think for themselves anymore.
Yesterday on Instgram there was a picture that went around regarding the
privacy policy. Someone made a fake picture so they could get a lot of uses of
their hashtag. It was so dumb. It seemed like I was the only one that actually
checked my privacy policy. The picture that was used was not anywhere in the
privacy policy. Social media works in magical ways because one person decides
to do this, and then next thing you know you have something trending. About
half of my followers put this picture up, and I proceeded to put up a picture
about how dumb they look because they all used this fake picture. If everyone
that seen this picture just actually checked their privacy policy the picture
never would have been around. It was literally a waste of time because no one
at all needed to put up this picture. Social media is destroying people’s free
thinking because everyone decides to just follow the crowd. If people would
either try to go against the crowd or only following the crowd when they know
the real details life would be so much better.
