Blog 3 - With whom am I really sharing?




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The day of the premiere I started watching the new Netflix series, "Elite" I only saw the first episode, the next morning when I entered YouTube, the recommendations section were all videos of interviews to the actors of the series, my first thought was that being the premiere was logical that we shared all this information on social media.

But last week I started "Gossip Girl" a series that ended in 2012, despite being well known people do not talk much about it, so I found it quite disconcerting when I entered YouTube the next day, the recommendations that came out they were videos related to the series, a series that I hadn’t seen in my life, and that had never interested me until a friend recommended it to me.

What if, with whom I am really sharing my information, why YouTube knows that you have to recommend videos of the new series I'm watching (and make me possible spoilers, by the way) and why he only recommends me about the series that I see and not what my brother sees with my user?. It seems good to me that Netflix uses the series that I see to generate recommendations, but share with YouTube? We really should read the conditions of use to know who and what we agree to share.

If it is not possible that we know who is the killer of the protagonist before time thanks to YouTube.

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  1. UnknownOctober 17, 2018 at 9:09 AM

    Interesting post!
    I can definitely relate to this seeing how often shows also get spoiled for me on Youtube as well. I find it invasive how much of my data is being sold to analytical companies and whoever else tracks my information but I also don't do anything to stop it from happening. The only way to stop it is to delete my social media accounts which I don't want to do because I would not be as connected to everyone else then. So, it's interesting to look at it from a perspective like this where an episode of gossip girl is revealed on a social media platform and you get angry you could almost delete your account but decide not to in order to not in a sense commit "social suicide" by not being connected to everyone else.

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