Facebook, manipulation, & privacy (a ramble):

There's a saying that if you're not paying for a product, you ARE the product being sold. That is, your attention and your time are valuable.
It's no longer a question of WHO has your data, but why and what they're doing with it.

Facebook has already demonstrated it's ability to sway and manipulate users. The first indication of such manipulation came in 2014, when they selected 600,000 users to see if they could make them feel happy or sad. This was done by controlling what they scrolled through,

using negative or positive news, then observing the change in their emotions. The results were sadly, successful.

The question is...
What happens when tech giants have the ability to manipulate people to act and behave in a way that reflects *their* values, not ours? and what

exactly does it do to our social, spiritual, and mental wellbeing? How exactly is our fitra being altered?

The end.

Oh yeah. The topic of what we should do with the information of how these companies use our data to manipulate us is something for another time. Ya girl's tired.

Also, if you'd like to know of more instances where companies manipulated (or showed they had the ability to) their users, just let me know.