DeMotivators

[Echo419]

You have to stop seeing your life in a vacuum of isolated moments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_evidence

20 years ago, this amounted to recent memory, things you did that were personally witnessed, etc. Currently, virtually anything goes--from metadata to things you googled. True, the NSA may well keep track (and many ISP's). But you don't also have to allow 2 dozen 3rd party trackers to also monitor your online presence. The less hands on my data, the better. I may--in fact--be doing nothing illegal online. But god forbid my personal property gets seized during some BS investigation, I really don't need the 1st thing to be seen is targeted browsing ads based on kinky stuff I happened to look at 6 months ago.

If the US society in general was a LOT less prudish, this might be a different story. As it stands, virtually ANY vice you indulge in--even in moderation--brands you a social pariah. Porn? Pervert. Alcohol? Drunk. Marijuana? Drug addict. Swinger? Immoral. Gambler? Lack of self control. I've been waiting for society to change it's medieval draconian views on vice...pretty much as long as I've been alive. There's just too many prudish bible thumpers & overprotective baby boomers (Hey, what I did in the 60's was fine for ME--but damn you if you ever try to do any of the same things). So as long as the social verdict on vice is (for lack of better term) just this side of Iranian, I'll keep my trackable online presence to the minimum extent possible. To include VPN service if I so choose.

I have a hard time believing that the same gov't that can't start an insurance website is using my google history for world domination.

[CoreyB]

They will have such a hard time trying to categorize me.

[Echo419]

They will have such a hard time trying to categorize me.

Pats fan. thus likely liar and cheater.

notsrs well sorta

[DocWalt]

[IPD]

I have a hard time believing that the same gov't that can't start an insurance website is using my google history for world domination.

NSA has stuff regardless. I can only imagine we're a few short years (if not there already) from where a potential employer can now pay a 3rd party to not only do a criminal history lookup on you--but can also find everything from your browsing habits to your taste in porn. Social Media searches are already common for this same purpose. No thanks.

[IPD]

[RealMcCoy]

[stealthee]

Makes me want Chinese food.

[RealMcCoy]

[Echo419]

NSA has stuff regardless. I can only imagine we're a few short years (if not there already) from where a potential employer can now pay a 3rd party to not only do a criminal history lookup on you--but can also find everything from your browsing habits to your taste in porn. Social Media searches are already common for this same purpose. No thanks.

that's why the only social media I have is a blank FB page set to private with no friends that I made so I could use Tinder.