- Social media is harmless - Iâm happy to have my details harvested
- Social media is a method of monetising you - should be avoided.
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BBC News - Facebook faces mass legal action over data leak
Should Anker stop using social media competitions?
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You know what I voted for.
But we will be a small, innocent, very âstrangeâ minority.
But I, being a true neanderthalean will not mind and care about.
NEVER will use fakebug or the other ⌠( censored )
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In a world where everything appears to be free many know thatâs not actually the case.
Iâve done well out of competitions and giveaways on social media so for me its a bit, meh, whatever.
Looking forward to seeing a few more entries @professor to build a bigger picture.
I donât have FB only Instagram, which is basically about the same LOL, but I only used it for the giveaways and stuff
Whether we like it or not, our data is already being scrapped - example: widely used email service -Gmail, they know us in and out of what we do⌠so why not make good use out of it. The streaming service you use, targets you based on what you watch, how much you watch. Smartphone services using LTE provides data to carrier on what you surf, and what you can be targeted on. Companies make use of the data model and sell these details to other companies.
Using social media has served me well, won fair share of competitions and giveaways, so no complaints, which I use only for competitions. tweet, retweet, tag, share⌠not putting out anything personal 
It is not about Anker, âanyâ company that wants to sell âanythingâ, will make use of social media - Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, few of the top services. So no matter what happens, companies will keep doing this to market thier products in one or other waysâŚ
Facebook had so many data leaks, but the popularity is ever increasing and more users going to it. There will be many more data leaks, but there will be many more users going to it⌠I am not much on Facebook (deleted my account earlier, no interest to go back to it)
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It isnât ideal and not how I would market or shop. But I donât mind the scraping too much - I limit the personal stuff on those sites to be scraped.
I avoid social media (FB, Instagram and whatever others).
It seems unfair to those that choose to avoid social media when competitions are announced requiring social media.
Competitions should be equally based.
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False equivocation.
Google knows you, true. But another Gmail user doesnât know you.
Youtube knows you other YouTube users donât. Unless you comment.
The Anker competitions are entirely different. You subscribe, so everyone else who subscribed knows you.
They then scrape information from you. They send message you you, knowing you like Anker (Soundcore, etc) pretending to be from them (congratulations you won) and then scrape even more.
Agree, but they are not, itâs weighted to as many social media you click on, each adding to your exposure, so the competitions encourage to use as many platforms possible.
How is everyone else knowing that I have subscribed or anyone else has subscribed?
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Only "The famous, wellknown âMr. Randomâ " knows.
Not difficult. For example
The competition involving social media means those who apply are highly likely to click on a âyou wonâ phishing coming from a fake âSoundcoreâ e.g.
So Anker using social media is inviting problems theyâd not have if they avoided the whole social media.
Think the bigger point would be to keep a lot of their competitions here while linking everything from social media. Grows the community and still gets the word out. I am a firm believer that social media has many flaws, but it is also beneficial for businesses and advertising.
Being careful on clicking on emails, checking emails for sender address, verify if its legitimate⌠So far i have been good and lucky. I think itâs safe.
Also, if there are competitions or giveaway, the communication âalwaysâ in my experience have been on chat / message on that social media-- example Twitter Message or Instagram message.
Only Anker and sister companies contact and now i know the addresses and people sending thoseđ
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I dont use so I can not click.
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Should statements are normative, they are founded on the beliefs and expectations of the individual.
Me, I donât expect people to behave the way I think they should
Then if they donât Iâm not disappointed
And if they do, Iâm not the proud
But Iâm so old, I remember when Java wasnât even a drink
Just be happy they arenât mining us right now
As I am not ON facebook or twitter, itâs unfair that those people get extra chances to win.
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Tim, go and register cause itâs a lot of fun on Twitter and Facebook (especially with those competitions and extra chances of winning). I simply canât understand people who donât have any social media accounts because everything I can imagine any business, community have accounts on social networks to be closer to their readers/customers or to promote their services and products. For that they usually have to post every day, to control the advertising so it becomes much easier with onlypult and their useful blog https://onlypult.com/blog/low-frequency-tags-on-instagram.