UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance

Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by nine_k on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @10:29PM (#15496448)

Writing style: this is something you can work on.

Forums: often the need for a separate identity arises from the need to join a particular forum frowned upon by your peers or superiors. Same for audience. That is, if you want a different persona and not a sock puppet to support your "main" persona.

Timing: this is also solvable if you want to.

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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by dogruck on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:33AM (#15497687)

At some point, following that logic, your multiple online personalities are truly distinct.

For example, "okay, so you have one account exclusively post hard core right-wing arguments in the early morning, and then your second account posts left-wing arguments in the mid-afternoon."

At that point, what's the point? :-)

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Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance by nine_k on Thursday October 19, 2017 @08:35AM (#15507325)

For many people, the point is posting family photos and cat pics under their real name, for childhood friends and relatives, discussing technical details of some computer game in a slang-rich game forum, and maybe discussing hardcore [insert your favorite bogeyman here] on some forum of like-minded people.

All these three personalities need not be connected in any way, nor need they contradict each other in what they say. They are just for different and unrelated facets of one's life.

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