Do you think Indians can stay without Facebook — Post dataleak ?

Everyone here has a smart phone, every one is smart and has a phone!

Everyone takes selfies and photos and shares them on smart platforms such as Facebook and Instagram and later even on Whatsapp!

With the latest scandal rocking the global stage that the social networking giant Facebook had a data leak. News channels and Facebook pages bearing witness to his stoic face whilst the US senators had a VIVA session thrown at him. I think that he was coached by someone from India who had an amazing experience answering the VIVA questions posed to him.

After surfing on the internet as to what the Hulla-gulla was all about, I found that my data could have been leaked. I know that is rather shocking — but I guess we are prone to leaks — Dr.Fixit wala leaks, question paper leaks and other scandal leaks. So as an Indian this did not make much of a change.

The only thing that currently Facebook does not know is my Aadhaar card details, rest of my history, physics, chemistry and math- it knows; because I have put it there.

I usually hang out on Facebook, share Memes that are cliché and no longer funny. I wish everyone a happy birthday, say congratulations to anyone and everyone of my friends who are getting married and or going to another country, see the suggested profiles and then stalk a few people and then logout. Some of my friends though play these online games, put up their photos that look similar to another celebrity. There are so many such rages that happen over the internet.

Your selfies and Kulfies find their way into the happy and satisfying world of the internet via Facebook and Instagram. Weird hashtags make sure that your photos are available to every Tom Dick and Harry who knows the hashtag world.

I don’t know the numbers, but I read somewhere that the number of smartphone users in India is going to double by 2020 and with that the number on the social media platforms too.

Every app that you use shall ask permission to peep into your contact list, messages and gallery; we blindly say yes. But I don’t give permission for my parents to even touch my phone but these apps are harmless. Are they really?

The FB- CA scandal started with alleged data collection over a quiz application. How many online quizzes do you play, how many apps have you installed that access your phone and at how many places have you given your phone number so that you can get a discount.

But the bigger question I have after all the data leak and the potential in which it could change the settings of who took over the white house into play, do you really think that my data on the internet cannot be misused, mis-represented and used to draw other plans in which other companies make money.

So, do you think that you can live without Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp?

(https://sunilsathyendra.typeform.com/to/ygmZTn :In a online survey with over 20 participants 90 % of them were not willing to uninstall Whatsapp, while 70 % of them Instagram and 60 odd not willing to uninstall Facebook)

These apps run the show for us. The premier place for society to come together.

We protest online, we find our friends online, we chat online, we socialize online, we post photos online, we post where we had been online, we laugh online.

We get posts that we may like, posts that we may find an acute need to support. This is being done I suppose via profiling my pattern of spending, browsing and much more. For example: I may Google vacation in Malawi and seconds later in another website an ad pops up saying the best travel options to go to Malawi. These may be co-incidences. But, are they really?

There are apps out there that give us 50, 100 rupees cashback for the transactions that we do with them, have you asked yourself whether your data there is safe. Your phone number and bank details are all in their database and a hacker could easily swoop in and bankrupt you in seconds.

But hey, who is bothered?

Whatsapp says now that there is end to end encryption for all our messages — really?

Who has bothered to check? Does that mean that before that update arrived, our data could be listened to by others?

But is the young generation of India, specially the ones who use the same the Facebook saga to feel good about themselves, meet their friends, continue chatting with their prospective girlfriends — ever be ready to say no to Facebook?

Are you ready to #deletefacebook?

Imagine your days without Facebook — you can take selfies and other photos but nowhere to put that and get likes and validation?

Imagine your days without Instagram — All those interesting #hashtags that you cannot browse through.

This some-how I can imagine, but without Whatsapp?

Uh-huh! Absolutely unpossible (usage Intended). We will be going back to the stone age then!!

That is where our daily lives begin and end. We share snippets of our lives, we share information, videos, notes to pass in the examination, call people for free in the USA, have cousin groups, make small talk, actually talk and then create gossip centers.

Groups of friends, groups without one friend, road group, school group, college group, office group, trip group, office group with boss, office group without boss, religious groups, just forward sending group and serial discussion group! Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram are our life blood!

Data breach or no data breach, this Facebook/Whatsapp/Instagram is needed. Period.

You can take our data, profile our characteristics, sell them to other buyers, we are not bothered. We need a platform to rant, socialize and be validated as an individual.

Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram is here to stay fellas!!