Yodeller

It's nice to get to travel around the world, see different places. But no matter where you go the best part of every trip is coming back home.

First of all the reception is absolutely the best. In which hotel do you get a loving hug as a welcome even at the middle of the night?

There might be many wonderful things to see out there but the best sight is to see your family again.

You might get fancy rooms in a great hotels, but nowhere do you sleep better than beside your loved one.

You can collect wonderful experiences and great stories along your journeys, but what are they worth if you can't share them with anyone.

It was a nice trip, but it's good to be back home.

New things are always scary. They don't work as they used to be. I cannot do all the things I used to. It's not as efficient. This is all wrong. Old was much better.

At my work I have to get people to adapt to new things, start using new tools and processes. Those are just a few complaints that I constantly hear from them. They might complain about the status quo, but then they raise the barricades when the change is brought up.

I thought I would be above such resistance, more open to changes. But then I got a new phone. And boy, does it suck. The old one was way better.

At least I did recognize my bias right away. I can work with that, try to be even more open to new things after this.

Itv's just a matter of learning new things, adapting to a new environment. It might take some time, but after that you'll look at the old one and see how bad it was compared to the current one.

I'm sure that with time I too can adapt to using this inferior phone operating system after years of using the best phone os in the world.

Now that I have been writing for a while sometimes I get an idea about the topic, but then I remember I've already written about that. I fear that someday I don't remember that and write the same story again.

But maybe it wouldn't be that bad idea after all. Maybe I have some new angle to that idea. Or maybe I have learned something new about it.

It's good to iterate things from time to time. It's one kind of change, improving those ideas.

There is also the fact that you can only say so much with 1400 characters and sometimes there are things that don't fit into that. Or there are details to be addressed. In those cases I hope I don't forget to write more about the topic.

I hope that whenever if I'm writing about same topic I will have something new to say about it instead just repeating myself.

It's hard to keep up your privacy. Everything you do is recorded. Many even contribute to those records sharing their life willingly to the public.

I imagined I still had some privacy using something not mainstream. Something that should not reveal that much about me and my doings. But it seems unavoidable, they always have their ways to get the information.

Stepping into the world of Google had me worried. I got a new phone. Prior to that I was using a phone that did not have any google services present. Still one of the first things that that new phone did was telling me when I would be at home if I'd leave now.

That suggestion was scary accurate. It came around the time I usually leave work. It had the correct route and means of travel. And my home address!

As somebody interested in technology that was exciting. As a user that was convinient. And as a privacy conscious person even those last two sentences feel scary now.

I kinda like the possibilities this new technology offers. It's also so much easier, you don't have to worry about things. It almost make you want to give up, to accept the fact that we are no longer the customers, we have become the product.

Should I just give up, am I fighting against imaginary fears?

Let's stay a bit longer at the topic of privacy. I only had room to touch about the collection of data in my previous yodel. But more important topic is how that data is being used.

There is the ”good” side where it's only used for offering you more fitting advertisement or content you are more likely to consume. They merely make you into a product, the dara profiles of users can be sold to such advertisers or content producers so that they know better what and how to sell to you.

But then there is the other side. The side that makes you into a suspect. Psychological profiling can give highly accurate models of people just by knowing few facts about the person. Now those profiles might be just generalization. We are all unique, or at least we like to think so. But that doesn't prevent you from ending up on the suspects list whenever you fit the profile.

It would be easy to show that anyone of us could be a criminal. Just picking up the fitting traits and showing that some type of criminals share these traits.

Those profiles are being used, there is no doubt of that. We all have one, it doesn't take much to form one. And if there is nothing, there is profile for that. There is always enough data, there is no escape.

Let's just hope the profiles are used as a whole, not just fit somebody into the case.