Above is a screenshot of a segment of a fun "survey" many people on FB engage in.
I know I'm a skeptic but I wonder how all of this personal information collected by Facebook is going to impact our future. For instance, if they want to know who is a Christian, the information is here. Who likely owns a gun, or is in favor of guns, it's here. Who is a risk taker. Who is a traveller. Who has influence (been on TV). Has travelled to Africa or the Middle East (rode a camel...) Who hasn't. (Might be an indicator of being less racist or more affluent.) Goes to church (sang in a church choir). Who has children.
Sorry to spoil the fun.
FB put up a post once that set off alarm bells when it listed my "Family Members" for me. It was inaccurate because I try and be careful about giving out personal information, but my question was why? Why were they checking with me to confirm who was my family? Did they want me to correct their mistake? So they would be more accurate?
I've wondered how the information that unvaccinated people have more car accidents was gathered? A lot of information is being gathered about unvaccinated people. Why? To try and prove they are looney conspiracy theorists? To make them paranoid? To find more ways to agitate them?
How is this information we provide put together? How do they make meaning out of it?
Think China. China's model of knowing everything about its citizens is becoming more attractive to countries around the world. And believe me, China is not restricting their information gathering to their own citizens.
Sorry to spoil your fun, but I wouldn't write this if I didn't believe there was need for caution. Maybe this survey was put out soley for the purpose of finding out who supports or uses guns. (Have you ever shot a gun?) We don't know, but it looks like an effective information gathering tool.
It baffles me why it is so important to know everything about everybody, but I can scarcely believe that people who do this have good motives. I caution people to ask themselves, what am I revealing?
Some things about us, like our faith, should be out in the open. But, for myself, personally, I don't want to give a handy list of my preferences and experiences to strangers.