Folks are funny. They rant & rave about privacy & yet post the most intimate details of their lives on social media & bitch and complain when no one reads their posts.
The real funny bits, are the Youtube stars who make Cinéma Vérité videos & say "I'm not telling you where I live because all of the nuts out there", yet give enough meta-data about their lives, such that any reasonably logic monkey can figure out their town, if not their exact address. Case in point, a youtuber injured himself in an earlier video & posted the antibiotic bottle for the drugs to combat the infection. He was careful to hide the address, but if you googled the pharmacy number on the label (which I did) it gave you the exact address.
But there are those of us who don't want Facebook to mine our data or sell our meta-data. We don't want our data disseminated.
So I am thinking of a new type of social media platform where all of your posts are encrypted. You pull a reverse asymmetric encryption. All of your contacts have your private key for that social media platform. You publish your posts with a public key that you don't disclose. Only those with your key can read the posts. To pay for this platform, you agree to look at 10 ads a week. Makes sense to me.
(originally appeared as a Linked In post: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-bodnar-57b635133/ )
