🚨🚨🚨 How Meta and Other Companies Sell Us Like Digital Livestock 🚨🚨🚨 Y’all ever wonder how Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) stays rich when their apps are “free”? Spoiler alert: WE are the product. Here’s the game they play: 1️⃣ Meta collects EVERYTHING. Your likes, searches, DMs, time spent on posts, what makes you pause, what you scroll past—ALL of it gets tracked. 2️⃣ They package that data. Meta builds an eerily accurate profile of who you are, what you like, what you MIGHT like, and even what you lowkey fear. 3️⃣ Advertisers pay top dollar for it. They don’t just buy ads; they buy access to YOU. They can target you down to your age, gender, location, income, habits, and even your emotions. 4️⃣ Companies buy and sell this data. It’s a whole economy. Data brokers buy up your digital footprint and resell it to banks, insurance companies, employers, political campaigns—whoever got the bag. Real Talk: Ever searched for something and suddenly got ads for it? That’s your data working against you. Ever talked about a product and it showed up in your feed? Your phone ain’t “listening”—the algorithm just KNOWS you better than you know yourself. They don’t need your name—they got your behavior. And behavior is more valuable than identity. So, what can you do? ✅ Use privacy settings (They still tracking you, but at least make ’em work for it). ✅ Limit third-party apps & permissions (No, that quiz app don’t need access to your contacts). ✅ Be mindful of what you share (Once it’s out there, it’s out there). ✅ Support platforms that respect privacy (They exist, but they ain’t mainstream for a reason). This digital world ain’t free, fam. Either we pay with our money or we pay with our data. And right now? We paying with our souls.
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