Patrick Whitesell Quotes

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.

I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused.

Facebook has long been part of surveillance programs, long before it acquired WhatsApp.

When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

I don't really use Facebook, because I find it a bit intrusive on your personal life.

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.

Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.

Google, Facebook, and the thousands of other companies that seek to join their ranks do more every day to collect data about you and I than any surveillance state could ever accomplish. They track our behavior, our communications. The moment to moment decisions we make in every room of our house

Facebook creeps me out.

It's amazing how much information we share in social media, then we wonder why people steal our identity.

I do not have a Facebook page, and I do not chat on Twitter. I don't have a web site, even if there are people who have opened one in my name, complete with my photo.

I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?

When Facebook launched, it dove headfirst into a brave new world. No one knew that the cost of connecting people all over the world for ad revenue was eventually going to be Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented.

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.

Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

I think there are pros and cons to social networking, but on a social, personal level, it's just not for me.

I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times.

I tread lightly with social media. I don't dislike it. I'm just not sure what I'm doing, and I'm a somewhat private person.

There is so much we don't know about Facebook. We know we have a corporate monopoly that has repeated serious violations that are threatening our democracy.

I spend a lot of time on social media, I'm on Facebook every day; I'm on Twitter every day.