[awakened53]

Oh don’t... all mi friends have Alexa in their houses and I feel like I am being listened to! Lol
They think she’s the bees knees! I just think why can’t you write your own flipping shopping list with... I dunno a pen & paper? Lol

What they should say on the advert is...
Alexa send all personal info to GCHQ please
Alexa upload all my browsing history to the CIA Please
Oh and Alexa, fry me with some more microwaves before I go to bed

[Steve]

Try search engine DuckDuckGo, supposed to be entirely private.

[Charlotte4711]

Oh don’t... all mi friends have Alexa in their houses and I feel like I am being listened to! Lol
They think she’s the bees knees! I just think why can’t you write your own flipping shopping list with... I dunno a pen & paper? Lol

What they should say on the advert is...
Alexa send all personal info to GCHQ please
Alexa upload all my browsing history to the CIA Please
Oh and Alexa, fry me with some more microwaves before I go to bed

Ha ha brilliant!!! I might do that next time I’m at a friends “Alexa record this conversation & send to GCHQ!” 
Wonder what happens if you ask Alexa about the dangers of WiFi & 5G?!

[mostly_harmless]

The fact that anytime an "event" happens, the MSM always goes to the person's Twitter, or FB page. There is your proof.  Get off the social media, I quit FB in 2011. was bombarded with crap from them trying to get me to come back for about 6 weeks.
The first 2 weeks I  was off was not hard, but liking breaking a bad habit. Hope all can understand my meaning. I can say being free of FB  was like breathing clean air.
My decision came after the imprisonment of Brandon Raub, an ex- American soldier, who posted things on FB that got him arrested under the George Bush, Patriot Act. No lawyer, no justice.
I posted on my page of 328 "friends" that as of 9/1, I would no longer be part of FB. If any one of my 328 friends wanted to remain in contact with me, send a personal message & I would hive them my e-mail address.
Not one living soul, responded, not one of the 328 "friends". So what does that say?
#1) The majority of your FB "friends" are not friends at all
#2)  If I think about the folks that befriended  me were folks I really weren't that close too anyway. More acquaintances, than actual people I was close to & had contact.
#3)  I truly feel that people collect FB "friends" like a wild game trophy hunter collects pelts or heads. To be mounted & displayed.
#4) Get off of this garbage. Do it now, do it today. You won't believe how good you will feel.
Carolinabeve

Totally agree with you. I did the same as you and left FB and before doing so, sent a message to my 'friends' and not one asked for my email! I have since went back on FB because I want to keep in touch with a young terminally ill relative living in the States as he loves FB.

You may find this video interesting by Chamath Palihapitiya. He believes FB and other social media platforms are ripping apart the social fabric of society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6e1riShmak

[ContemplationInTranquility]

Try search engine DuckDuckGo, supposed to be entirely private.

I've been using DuckDuckgo for a year now and I've seen no evidence whatever of being tracked, highly recommend it. I only ever use Google for YouTube when there is no alternative and very occasionally for Google maps. Nothing else.

[KavanderShadow]

Scary report on what Google is up to

http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/02/07/go...capitalism

Just watched it... I expected nothing less which is why my location services are switched off all the time but I doubt this makes much difference when they can turn on a speaker & listen in at anytime - I deleted Facebook messenger for this reason!

If someone brought "Alexa" into my home I think I would throw "her" as far over my garden fence that I could  lol

I "won" an amazon Alexa at work... I immediately threw it in the recycling bin.

[freelotus]

True. It's made me reluctant to use any of these sites over the years. Though, ironically, now that we know everything is tracked - even if you don't use your real name or the same email addresses - I've used them slightly more freely, cos fuck it.

What I don't understand is why anyone would voluntarily tell an employer what their profiles/links are when they ask. Make them work to their nefarious ends.

[Dbaby23]

Never had FB account or any other social media, was never interested, nothing like socializing with actual human beings who you can call and hang out with, you know, real friends!