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lechiffre10 | 6 years ago

I find it incredibly ironic that it took me about 30 seconds to go to the author's profile, see him plaster all the social media platforms we can reach him on. Went to his Instagram and could tell where he lives, where's staying at when he travels, that he enjoys walks with his mom in Centennial beach in Delta, BC and what he does for hobbies.

All this in under a minute and yet here we are panicking over a Russian Company that can do whatever it wants with your face pictures.

Ok.

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rolltiide|6 years ago

> I've been a journalist, analyst, and corporate executive, and have chronicled the rise of the mobile economy.

Thats because he needs to be able to be contacted to gain outsized benefits from society. Writing about this stuff "first" gets you tapped for corporate executive roles or lucrative expert witness roles in judicial proceedings. It is called "thought leadership"

He is much more objective about doing this than malleable people fearing missing out