The social media dilemma

Social Media is a wonderful phenomenon; it has given us all our 15 minutes of fame.  Its addicting alure allows us to have a stage for our opinions, our thoughts and our beliefs.  Communication has never been so easy, quick and widespread.  We are all able to flex our individuality with little to no recourse.  However, it comes with drawbacks, some overt and some hidden.  So, we need to use this tool like any other, with efficacy and with trepidation, because it can be both useful and harmful in inexperienced hands.

The dangers right now

Social Media has pioneered data extraction for the purpose of commerce and they have done an amazingly good job of understanding our habits, preferences and tendencies.  Their data bases keep track of what we’re looking at, our buying habits, what we buy and how we buy it.  This has led to an extremely profitable enterprise for these companies.  Our information is bought and sold many times over to companies seeking that extra advantage over their competitors.  There is nothing wrong with this; we voluntarily search, and purchase many things over these sites and we, for the most part, understand that we are being recorded and manipulated, maybe not to the extent we are, but to some degree, we get it.

Over the last few years this has become somewhat blurred because we now are using social media for philosophical and political reasons.  The powers that be can see the awesome power of these tools to deliver their agenda, whether it be liberal or conservative.  They have found a new and incredible tool,  one that is much cheaper than TV or the standard news outlets.  Since this information is not fact checked like newspapers or programs, the purveyors can say what they want without ramification.

Controlling these pieces of fact or fiction has now become a serious concern.  Outlets, like Facebook, are now attempting to control these opinions, whether true or false, under extreme pressure from governments around the world, especially right here in the U.S.

With all of the recent activity on Facebook, I think it’s important to make our voices at SocialSchredder.com heard.  Although we have no opinion on the political status quo, we are disheartened by Facebook’s willingness to censor certain thoughts and ideas.  Facebook is media; that’s why it’s called “Social Media” and we believe that what Facebook has done is to lead us down the slippery slope to censorship.  Freedom of speech is not something to interpret, it is either free or not.  We need to make sure that our Constitution is upheld to the standards put forth by our founding fathers.  I know I have not given Facebook permission to adjust or delete the feeds that come my way, and I bet the public is in concurrence.

With that being said, I think we are at a crossroads.  What we do next has tremendous impact on who we are and the freedoms we embrace.  Let’s make sure we make the right decisions.

This is the really tough question that confronts us all here and now. “While lovers of liberty in all lands have urged the necessity of freedom of speech, none put the case more pointedly than the French philosopher Voltaire when he said: “I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.””

The dangers in the future

People think it’s easy to hide in great numbers, and it is.  They tend to flex their “social muscles” because they feel that they’re protected by the masses of online users.  But the fact is that data bases follow those opinions and now they target you for advertising and commerce, but that could easily change to targeting because of affiliation or philosophy.  That’s the real danger I see in the future.

Social Media’s use of your data could easily be manipulated to find the dissenters or the antagonists of the world and target them because of their views.  They may track political affiliations, subjective opinions and sell this information to the highest bidder no matter how old or out of date this data is.  People could be held up for ridicule or attacked because of beliefs.  This Orwellian type of society would have the power to stifle dissenting opinion and even worse, eliminate the opinion from the public view.

How SocialShredder.com can help

Always remember that the data you share is yours.  Manage that data like you would manage your resume.  Make sure it conveys the relevant data that you want to portray.  People are being judged unfairly because of their past postings on Social Media.  It’s preventing them from getting jobs and applying to colleges.  It’s used against our military for extortion and locations.  Tabula Rasa’s product, SocialShredder.com, erases your social media, stores it on Federally compliant servers (military) and can restore it in the future if the customer wishes.

SocialShredder.com is a cloud-based application providing services to users of social media allowing them to manage the unwanted distribution of their social media history, through monitoring and deletion.  Students applying to colleges and careers, families in grief, due to the loss of a loved one, as well as our military, securing the information of our deploying soldiers are a target of this electronic footprint consolidation effort.

Our markets include the General Public (Global), Students, high school or college, the Department of Defense, erasing information for deploying soldiers, the Funeral Industry, erasing the digital footprints of the deceased and victims of domestic abuse, restoring their social media anonymity.

Tabula Rasa, Inc.  Founded in 2018, our initial product is SocialShredder.com.  A SaaS application (desktop and mobile) geared to erasing social media histories, storing them on Fedramp(DoD) compliant servers (in the United States) and restoring the information upon request.  Tabula Rasa is a C corporation located at 1995 E Coalton Rd, 76-206, Superior, CO 80027.

Our website is www.socialshredder.com.  The videos really tell the story.

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