50% of Consumers Will Significantly Limit Social Media Use by 2025

I started this years ago by rejecting all things Facebook and Google.

The fastest way to convince me *not* to use a product is to associate one of these names with it. And this extends beyond just social media.

I use /eOS/ on my phone and Brave as my browser only after I became satisfied that these are reasonably stripped of privacy invasion.

Also, 50% of stuff you try to read will require a subscription

And you're probably better off without reading a lot of this stuff.

Advertising can easily be a source of income without privacy invasion. Those who don't figure this out may be in for a rocky road ahead.

Google is wisely positioning itself for this new reality but it won't give up blatant privacy invasion until absolutely forced to do so.

To me, the only interesting aspect of Google's new "Topics" proposal is the ability to disable it and whether doing so will actually stop the privacy invasion madness. History suggests they will blow right through this in the same way they did "Do Not Track".

I’m far ahead of the pack: 5 minutes on Twitter almost every day and 5 minutes on LinkedIn 2-3 times a week.

Otherwise known as the 'dopamine detox'.