Free Will: What Space Does It Have on Social Networks?
As we expose our preferences and data, are we losing our free will among divine algorithms that will constitute the heavenly chart of our lives?
The present challenge that the massive use of social networks poses is immensely significant and provides us with an opportunity for reflection.
We will always be the fruit of the ambition of the paths we want to travel, fueled by our ambition to always achieve what we have not yet achieved.
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The likelihood of placing our telephone number, email address, age, taxpayer’s number and/or citizen’s card number, or other similar elements in our car (so everyone on the street can see them) or at the door of the house has greatly reduced.
In fact and in most cases, if not generally, we even have some reservation in sharing any of these elements and if someone approaches us on the street asking for only our telephone number, we ignore, respond abruptly or even in an unfriendly manner.
Now, it is hard to understand that in the wider universe, even more accessible by a greater number of people in this digital world that we make available in any way without previous judgment, such data/elements are usable by any strangers that can access them.
In the recent controversy over the degree of use of data, the manipulation of use (more than improper, previously oriented for certain purposes), the first step – previous to possible indignation – will probably be to re-evaluate our own direct exposure to the digital world.
If we expose millions of people to our likes of movies, series, sports clubs, religions or political opinions, shouldn’t we be prepared for millions of people (directly or indirectly) to come up with ideas, opinions or alternatives to such preferences?
And, on the other hand, how do we significantly limit our choices in life by limiting our communications, digital environments or socialization online exclusively to our preferences – without counterpoint to other visions – allowing us to live casually in a world of single thought, in which only those who agree with us (or vice versa)?
By exposing our preferences and data, are we losing our free will among divine algorithms that will constitute the heavenly chart of our lives?
