Is it though? I recently bought some clothes, if I signed up with their mailing list I got a 10% discount. The salesperson asked tentatively, afraid I was going to start shouting or something about sending me emails, invasion of privacy etc. I said sure, gave them one of my fake emails, got my discount, sweet.
Like all this internet stuff is just fake, it's more entertainment than real life. Emails you don't like? delete them. Don't want people to find you on facebook, use a made up name, get all your friends to use made up names.
My daughter recently tried to search my on the internet - I don't exist, much to her chagrin. But we're linked on facebook, we share photos etc.
The only thing that does exist is purely professional, maybe these are skills that should be taught. No doubt facebook can do something with face recognition, and google can do some tracking, but I don't leave cookies lying around long, so they're pretty weak signals.
Like all this internet stuff is just fake, it's more entertainment than real life. Emails you don't like? delete them. Don't want people to find you on facebook, use a made up name, get all your friends to use made up names.
My daughter recently tried to search my on the internet - I don't exist, much to her chagrin. But we're linked on facebook, we share photos etc.
The only thing that does exist is purely professional, maybe these are skills that should be taught. No doubt facebook can do something with face recognition, and google can do some tracking, but I don't leave cookies lying around long, so they're pretty weak signals.