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I'm very bad at convincing people to care about their privacy (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by pandorabox@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The title says it all. Part of what i do now is to convince people to care about their privacy. I know I cannot force people to do anything. And I have a charisma level of -1, if this was an rpg. Like its nonnexistent.

I feel lonely in general because it feels like people make me feel like I'm delusional for caring about protecting my privacy. Maybe there is a support group for that🤣🤣🤣

But anything I can specifically say that works best in planting a seed in people's mind?

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[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Well, I'm forced to use Snapchat and discord by some dildos at school, who are to lazy to remember my phone number.

[–] pandorabox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I finally deleted snapchat the other day! It was hard and bf wahted to keep our 530 day snap streak.

Discord i havent been able to get rid of yet, because im part of so many group. But slowly im finding groups on signal and matrix that suit my needs. Its a work in progress!

Take your time❤️

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep and Discord is just a pain. It's laggy as hell on my Redmi 4x and I have to use Aliucord for decent performance. How did you even start using signal? Is it popular where you live? I don't have any friends or family members using it.

[–] pandorabox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Alot of people are using it! I guess ive beem invited to so many groups🙌🙌 its definitely good for privacy.

Yeah discord has been laggy 😭 maybe its all the data they have stolen🤣🤣🤣

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Forced? How? Why can't you just uninstall them?

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And not talk to my schoolmates about critical school info?

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know what info is so critical that you can't miss it but also can only possibly get it on Snapchat or Discord. If you use it to talk to other students you could get them to talk to you on another platform, otherwise it doesn't really sound like they're worth talking to, but you do you.

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

HW, grades, rescheduled tests, etc.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't have any way to find out about these things outside of Discord and Snapchat from your classmates??? How do your classmates find out then? It's not going to spontaneously generate into a Discord server. There has to be an official channel where people find out about these things.

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, private chats on teams (with 1 person for some reason) and info sharing by mouth.