We Blab Our Secrets To Our Phones

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/yyCHg5eQEcA   When composing tweet, texts, and answering surveys, you tend to reveal more private, confidential information on your smartphone than on your desktop computer.  University of Pennsylvania researchers report this conclusion from their analysis of more than 369,00 tweets, nearly 20,000 call-to-action web ads, and 10,000 restaurant reviews.   The investigators attribute this “truth serum” phone effect to our intimacies with these devices.  Because phones often serve as our adult pacifiers, we view them as safe zones.  We all too often lower our defenses and risk our own data security.   This study should prompt us all to be extraordinarily careful with content we provide on social media via the phone.   https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022242920912732 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200503092738.htm   #smartphone #socialmedia #privacy #security