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0 pointsLaforet9y ago0 comments

Maybe, but in many cases social media accounts are of very little indication of the person behind it. Employers, journalists and private investigators have been snooping around Facebook and Twitter long before State actors did and a lot of people maintain minimum activity on social media (and let it be family friendly too) just to blend in. If they habour any nefarious tendencies you are not going to find it on their public persona anyway.

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DanBC9y ago· 2 in thread

> and a lot of people maintain minimum activity on social media

I suspect that's a fraction of a percent. Are there any cites for higher numbers?

semi-extrinsic9y ago

I believe on Facebook, 90% of my friends only post something when they thank their friends for birthday greetings. They mainly use it for Messenger, and rather use Snapchat with a much more limited subset of friends for sharing. Most either don't have more SoMe accounts, or they use Instagram like they do Facebook, to follow people.

I couldn't find statistics, perhaps mainly because googling "facebook post frequency" or similar gives you 1000 SoMe SEO tips&tricks pages.

Freak_NL9y ago

In the case of Facebook I would expect governments to be more interested in your connections (and their connections) than in your posts. You could be as minimal in your output as you can possibly be; unless you ignore all friend requests, you will be surrounded by at least some people who do 'like' and 'follow' as if their lives depended on it, and the aggregate graph of data will make it trivial to gain a rough idea about who you are and what your place in society is.

Any data that isn't obviously fake can help build their profile of you. The idea is that they can build on that profile when you do become a person-of-interest.

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