# Privacy and Social Media

DevFeed: [Privacy and Social Media](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/privacy-and-social-media-30106.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://www.netmeister.org/blog/privacy-and-social-media.html>)

Published: 2014-03-20T18:53:16Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Signs of Triviality](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signs-of-triviality.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [data-processing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-processing.md>)

Tags: [collection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collection.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [social-media](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/social-media.md>), [stop](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stop.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that privacy and social media are not inherently in conflict, and says that treating them as opposites helps excuse large-scale data collection.

## Source excerpt

Privacy and Social Media do not stand in direct conflict. Pretending that they do excuses massive data collection. So stop it.