Social Media Scorched Earth
If you wanted to leave a social media platform, but were concerned about the data that's already been collected from you, what could you do?
1. Use their tools to delete the data you've uploaded
Hopefully they are good to their word that it is deleted.
2. But that doesn't eliminate the conclusions drawn from that data
It's not hard to imagine that there is a data model of you built around your social media activity. A virtual self.
3. You Need To Poison/Destroy the Virtual Self
4. Upload Pictures that aren't of you - and tag them as you
You could use AI to create pictures of you to see what facial recognition picks out as your relevant features, or even use AI to create "anti-you" images. After a while, the model should not have a clear picture of what your face looks like.
5. Randomize text posts
post status updates and such that veer wildly from your usual tastes and views. Blur the lines on what your preferences are.
6. Randomize Likes
similar to the above, it should appear random and deviate a lot from your actual preferences.
7. Slowly Delete Contacts
Start with the most important people in your life, and then be left with random aquaintances.
8. Add more random contacts
heck, at this point follow those awful bots back - hopefully there is nothing left of value in the account
9. Respond to Ads Randomly
10. Automate the last 5 steps and run for 1 year
Then finally delete the account.
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