Hi /x/, I don't know if you can console me or something,

I mean, I've taped my webcam and I don't do those buzzfeed tests for companies, but I know none of this matters. I can use facebook and report my location, it doesn't matter because I'm just one and the system works for all, they are collecting all of what my friends do. I could move to the forest and forget about my online life, but that doesn't change the fact that it's happening.

The other day I saw a video on youtube recs of a guy saying we should disconnect more and live life offline and outdoors. I wondered if that was aimed at me (and plenty of other people) to eject useless people out and diminish their reach.

The worst is that you are manipulated and you don't even have the tools to know that you are being manipulated. I'm positive they can make people kill themselves if only by showing depressive shit all day. You may say you'd quit facebook before any of that effect you, and you would be right in the first time, until the algorythm improves itself and become more subtle, on the limit of keeping you hooked and destroying your life.

PS: thread also posted on >>>/g/57073168

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>>18233230
>Hi /x/, I don't know if you can console me
No for myself, doubly no for /x/. This isn't /adv/
>I'm absolutely paranoid about internet, big data and surveillance.
You know the saying, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not etc etc
>Is there any hope for the world in this way?
Define hope. Generally the conman always needs a sucker in some measure, so it's unlikely every sucker's on the chopping table or the cons would have to turn on each other. Not that they are against that sort of thing, it just gets messier than the majority care to put up with.

>>18233230
>>18233846
>Big companies have everything about ourselves, from searches, facebook, internet history, pokemon go, whatsapp, shopping receipts, taglines... Everything.
They have the stats for the sport, and they know how to play the game to win, but they don't control the players who don't let themselves be bought. Decide for yourself what that's worth, it'll determine what you are.
>My worst fear is that they can cross all that data and actually change the "landscape" of opinions.
It's tragic but in a way because of the acceleration of society's "progress" we're in Darwin theory overdrive. I don't think it's necessary to "weed out the chaff" myself, but the thing is if there exists a group of people who are ignorant and gullible enough to a dire degree. Nature dictates their fate must come as due their nature or they'll just go on to produce more people like them who are detrimental to the others later. Thing is as these people are subjected to the pitfalls of their character they pull down others who unfortunately support (family) or try to protect them (friends). Which funny enough benefits those running the gauntlet because it gets rid of the "chaff" and the "pests", leaving only their crop.
>If the next big thing is to wear green-dyed wool sweaters
I've actually had a discussion that confirms virtually all fads are in fact a means of getting a cheap thing to explode in popularity and therefore profit someone. Take the uggs, leggings and flannel phases. Things once so rudimentary became very chic. Just imagine whose bank account those sales flooded into, follow the money
>Is there any hope?
Define hope.

>but that doesn't change the fact that it's happening.
Exactly. The ocean is made from the motion of many drops, but one drop cannot move the ocean.

>>18233230
Ah, yes, and while we're here though I can't rub your tears away I can rub your ego by commending your excellent taste in comics.

Our options are limited, but be glad you always have the choice to choose, and to thine own self be true. For truly in the final hours when introspection becomes impossible to distract from and delay any longer that above all is all that will matter to yourself.

I'm going to bump this thread under the watchful eye of our benevolent administrators.

Also Moot got the job at Google because he allowed scripts + captcha on 4chan.