Erik Qualman Quotes

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 don't like showing my privacy online.

Most people want the convenience of the Internet far more than they want the private spaces that older forms of communication protected.

Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.

It's so cheap to store all data. It's cheaper to keep it than to delete it. And that means people will change their behavior because they know anything they say online can be used against them in the future.

If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.

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.

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.

People are worried about privacy, and its one of the reasons people are using a service like SnapChat.

As we all become increasingly reliant on social networking websites and new technologies to stay connected, it's important to remain cognizant of how private personal information and data is handled.

I left Facebook after Facebook groups began appearing about me and suddenly your personal photographs start becoming public property.

The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.

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.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

I think over time more people will become more aware of how vulnerable their data is.

Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone.

Keeping a secret in the social media age often is impossible.

If you want to post pictures of yourself online, that's your decision, but you should understand the implications.

If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

I definitely stayed away from Twitter. I didn't want to be geotagged or anything.

I don't want to get into specifics of how I communicate with people, but I will say that people are concerned about being monitored.

A sexy selfie can be incredibly empowering - but remember that, while a Snapchat message might expire, nothing on the Internet truly disappears.

Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy.

Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.