This experience made me question how much our devices are listening and how our privacy is being compromised without explicit consent.

This incident highlights the blurred limits between convenience and surveillance in the digital age. While personalized ads can be useful, they often come at the cost of our privacy. My advice to readers is to regularly review app permissions, disable microphone, camera and location access when not needed, and be mindful of what you say around smart devices. Awareness is the first step toward protecting your digital space.

I think many people have the same problem today. We spend so much time on social media that we forget our real goals. We need to organize our time better and focus on what is important.

In other words, we should not let apps control our lives. We need to take back our autonomy and make good decisions for ourselves.

I think that even though these people are the ones copying your identity, the person is directly responsible for what they upload and must consider the consequences.

So the answer is logical, but it's also important to take it into account, try to only accept people that you already know, try to avoid public accounts and avoid location and names of family members and friends

That experience was disgusting for me, because i needed the space for my virtual class, it was unfair, and let me think about the way of the use of the internet and my data, because the website could have misused all my information and i know that it's exaggerated but, the danger it's everywhere and we need to be atent for our safety.

I noticed that my phone constantly monitors how much time I spend using it, even when I walk. Records my steps, screen time and sends me notifications suggesting that I rest. At first I thought it was a useful feature, but then I started to feel uncomfortable knowing that my habits were being recorded without my explicit consent.

This made me reflect on how technology can subtly limit our autonomy. Although these features are presented as tools to improve our well-being, they also involve the continuous collection of personal data, often without having given full consent.

I believe that reflecting on our growing dependence on mobile devices and being aware of how much control we are willing to give them is crucial for digital well-being.

When I thought about it, I realized how easily we give away our data just to use platforms. These apps create the illusion of helping us connect, but they also collect information that we never are totally agree to share. It’s like we trade a bit of our information every time we click “accept.”

After that, I turned off microphone access for most apps and started reading privacy settings more carefully. My advice is be more conscious about what permissions we give —Sometimes, the use of these applications it is not worth losing control over our personal life.

I remember an specific case, when I felt I couldn't stop watching videos on tik tok, I felt that I was lost my autonomy because I couldn't control myself.

When I was on the school, one of my uncles gave me a cell phone and I installed Tik Tok, it was really interesting for me in that moment, a lot of interesting clothes, makeup and trends. I watched videos for 3 hours or more at day. The algorithm of Tik Tok shows me exactly what I was thinking about. In a moment, I couldn't continue with that, I was losing my time, my concentration and my autonomy. I stopped open the app in much time. Or at least until I stopped using it as much as I was doing.

It will control you if you don't use it in a moderate way. We have to now how to use it in a correct way and in the correct time.

It wasn't just me not knowing when to stop, it was the algorithm showing me videos related to recent searches on Google, maybe it's just my imagination but I felt quite concerned about it so later I realized I had to question myself about what I want to spend my time on. That's something that we all should do actually, everyday if necessary, because otherwise we will fall in a repeatitive routine that could even harm our mental health.

To conclude I would say that it's not inherently bad to use social media apps in our free time, as long as we use them knowing that we don't have infinite time to spend in this world.

When I reactivated the streak, he would constantly congratulate me, but when I was close to losing it, he would apply some kind of emotional blackmail on me. Saying things like "Duo misses you", "Help Duo revive", "Make Duo happy", these sentences accompanied by strange images. I feel like I was very conditioned to continue this streak and to keep that bird happy with every lesson I learned. After a while, I stopped caring and stopped using it, and then I realized that everything is a process and that there's no need to depend on these types of apps.

(It should be noted that he was no longer doing lessons for the sake of learning, but rather to activate the streak)(It should be noted that I was no longer doing lessons to learn, but to activate the streak)

This experience makes me realize that this apps have access to our chats and also to our microphones and as we know, Instagram belongs to META, and whatsApp and Facebook too, so the information in those apps is shared between them to make the experience more personalized, but actually they are spying us.🕴🏽☝🏽

The next time You talk to another one about something very personal, You better turn off your cell phone completely.

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My advice is to be aware of how the platforms suggestions can influence your perspective, and also to consciously look for other voices before assuming that what appears most often is whats true. And remember that, everything that we do, has something political upon it.

This experience showed me how easily apps can collect and use our data. Many people click “accept” without really understanding what they are allowing, and companies can create very detailed profiles from that information. The problem is not only personalized advertising: when apps have access to our location, contacts, and microphone, they can learn about our habits, relationships, and private interests. This reduces our autonomy because our decisions start to be influenced by what the apps show or recommend. Technology is very useful, but without transparency and limits, it can become invasive. In addition, the lack of awareness both from users and authorities allows practices that slowly weaken our privacy.

After this experience, I changed my habits: now I read the permissions before accepting, uninstall the apps I don’t use, and limit what I share. It is important to read carefully what we are accepting and think about whether the app really needs that information to work. If we don’t pay attention, we are not protecting our privacy, and little by little we lose control over our personal data. Using technology responsibly enjoying its benefits while taking care of our privacy.

For example, when I was looking for information about computers because I needed one, all the apps were filled with ads from Alkosto and Éxito for laptops. This clearly demonstrates that these apps track my online searches to target advertisements based on my personal interests.

We need to be more careful about what we search for online, as external forces constantly collect and exploit that information. This raises important questions about privacy, manipulation, and the ethical use of personal data, showing that our online behavior is never entirely private.

That experience made me realize how much technology can invade our privacy without us even noticing. Many apps have access to our microphone, location, and camera, and we usually accept all the permissions without thinking. For example, with the “cookies” on websites, I still don’t know what they are for or what their purpose is, but we always accept them. This made me feel a little bit uncomfortable because it’s like being observed all the time, even when you think you are alone.