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Cake day: November 9th, 2023
  • proxivacyverse@lemmy.worldOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Having a privacy-oriented mindset makes one more anti-social. Frequenting privacy-centric communities should be avoided.
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    9 months ago

    why is that even important?

    This is our mentality (privacy loving people).

    You need an Instagram account to be a valid human

    This is their mentality (mainstream people).

    I don’t know which age group you belong to but social media apps are very essential for 18-24 age group to make connections. This is also the age where peer pressure is high and those who don’t partake in some activities get sidelined very quickly. Instagram and Snapchat play a vital role in the dating, no one is willing to share their # anymore. If you say you don’t have Insta or Snap all you’ll get is a weird up to down stare and the words “I’m sorry”.

    having a privacy oriented mindset online doesn’t make you antisocial in person though.

    Unfortunately, it does. There has been multiple research conducted in this field. Please look up the following for yourself:

    “The Social Costs of Privacy”, by Jonathan Zittrain,

    “Privacy and Social Connection” by Sherry Turkle.

  • proxivacyverse@lemmy.worldOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•A chatroom for the privacy minded!
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    9 months ago

    My experience from interacting with Germans is that you are above-average privacy conscious

    I too observed the same after reading numerous comments and posts from EU residents in Reddit and the like. I think this has to do with strict Data privacy laws there and it’s propagated in various forms of media so even the average consumer knows about it.

    gives me some level of hope that it is possible to gain some general awareness on these topics also in my country and elsewhere

    I think for this to happen stricter data privacy laws should be adapted by countries and should be advertised so hard that even your grandma knows about it. This is the only way we can normalise conversations about privacy.

  • proxivacyverse@lemmy.worldOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•A chatroom for the privacy minded!
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    9 months ago

    Link is not working.

    Sorry! I’m still new to Matrix so I’m still figuring out stuff. I’ll check what to do and post the new link here.

    But maybe that’s because I’m from Germany. Here the concept of privacy is something most people like,

    Yeah, being from the EU might be helpful to you since more people are aware of the importance of data privacy thanks to laws like GDPR. But where I live the concept of privacy is alien. Privacy is taboo here and trying to achieve physical privacy itself will be frustrating don’t even get me started on the digital side.