9:30AM: I woke up and went straight to Instagram. I watched memes videos and news channel vids to see what was happening in the world to get caught up if I missed anything. I have for sure upped my security game on here. I don’t like as many posts unless it’s a friends post I like that way it’s one less piece of data I am feeding to them. That way it’s harder for them to get more data out of me.
10:20am: I went to my computer to where I played some games like ready or not, dead by daylight, and a little Roblox. I am not aware if these games are recording what we are saying and sending it to companies of what we talk about but they for sure have access to my name, email, age, and maybe some social media.
12:00pm: Went on TikTok for a little and watched some videos. My for you page is really all over the place. Somedays it will be filled with funny videos, others will be filled with serious videos like news covers, or just boring things that I do not even care about. Scrolling on TikTok is the main way they get users data. There they can know your interests, dislikes, know your behavior data, know what politics you like, and know what social interests you like. All of this information feeds into their data so that way they guess what kind of videos you watch and will try and get those newer videos to try and get you to stay.
2:55pm I was told in a discord call with my friend and he all the sudden told me that Charlie Kirk got shot while he was giving a speech. At this moment social media is going crazy and that became the number one talk and post on social media and even if I wasn’t searching or wanting to look at videos on it, I still got it because I already searched it and they made it appear on my for you page more. They were for sure giving me videos that had to deal with my political interests as I kept getting videos on the college but also getting videos of people talking about the issue. Know one ever thinks about data while they scroll but I knew the data they were collecting was how much time I would spend on a video and then they would feed those newer videos depending on if I liked or stayed on videos for specific time.
10:55Pm I got home from work and was checking in with social media again and making sure if their were any updates on what was happening. I had liked a few videos and photos that people posted so this for sure pushed more videos on the situation to come my way.
11:30pm Wrapped up the day with watching some Netflix. I was in the mood for a movie so I watched, Were The Millers. Very Funny movie if you’ve never watched it before would highly suggest it.
My routine stays the same for the most part. I am trying not to spend majority of my day online but it’s hard when news stories come in and you want to learn more about what’s happening.
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