Is your social media account yours?

[alltalk]

Just read the Offer/Contract/EULA and you will realize - NO, you do not own your account. When you register online you often check the box "I agree to the terms of use". But a fraction of a percent, follow the link to that document and read it. And believe me, there's a lot of "interesting" stuff in there. If you read it, then with a high probability you will learn - that everything that is on the site (your posts, your data, your photos and videos, ...) belong to.... not to you, but to the company that owns this social network/platform.  Even if it is not written in big letters in the first paragraph "User Rights", it will be written in the document implicitly or implicitly.

Yep. You're right. We are creating accounts on certain platforms (company), we actually don't own the accounts. Those who have the platforms who own the accounts although the accounts were made by us. That's why we must be careful about our activities on the accounts, don't put something very personal there. Even, I actually hate to share personal identities when we are creating the social media accounts. The reason is clear, we can't fully control the accounts because it is not ours. This case may be similar when we have a CEX account. 

[Findingnemo]

The answer is pretty simple that can be derived from another question.

Are you paying to create your account?

No means the obviously everything you post doesn't belong to you, it's you that ignorant about it and is that really matters when everything you posted is getting downloaded and saved in somewhere else so even if you decide to delete you can't really delete anything cause there will be always digital copies that can never be wiped from internet.

[electronicash]

they are all not yours. you bought your house, paid in full but you still have to pay the tax every year for it. not sure why we have to when we already bought the house.  try skipping and someone from the office will come to collect and warn you about your asset.

the account you have in social media is yours but its also owned by the network. all these are just illusion. if the website is shutdown or blocked by your government, then you can forget about your social media account. just like what happened in Brazil.

[Agbe]

Yes, is my if it is been registered by me! But I know one day it won’t be my again or even be bound from using it after a several years of not being login on it, which can either be of my death, or notice to have been hacked by hackers, will wish to dump it for another one to avoid being Manipulated. This my own view in the said topic.

This reminds me of the mobile networks we make use of, I bought an mtn sim card and after two days I started receiving debit and credit alerts from a bank account that I don't even have, it means that someone else's line was sold to me, this just tells you how nothing is private anymore. No matter how secure your social media space is it can always be breached somehow

[alltalk]

they are all not yours. you bought your house, paid in full but you still have to pay the tax every year for it. not sure why we have to when we already bought the house.

The car, land, or house, can be owned because we will get the ownership papers. If we still need to pay taxes, it is another case. We pay taxes because there is a regulation made by the government.

But those social media accounts, we never have the ownership papers. It means they are not ours, right?

the account you have in social media is yours but its also owned by the network. all these are just illusion. if the website is shutdown or blocked by your government, then you can forget about your social media account. just like what happened in Brazil.

No, it is not ours. Even the accounts have our data, it is just the data for membership. Sure, it is all the illusion. When the platforms of the social media dissapear, we have no chance to access them anymore. That's why it is very risky to put the private data in the social media accounts.

[JoyMarsha]

Yes, is my if it is been registered by me! But I know one day it won’t be my again or even be bound from using it after a several years of not being login on it, which can either be of my death, or notice to have been hacked by hackers, will wish to dump it for another one to avoid being Manipulated. This my own view in the said topic.

This reminds me of the mobile networks we make use of, I bought an mtn sim card and after two days I started receiving debit and credit alerts from a bank account that I don't even have, it means that someone else's line was sold to me, this just tells you how nothing is private anymore. No matter how secure your social media space is it can always be breached somehow

You can imagine, how disappointing this was. For you to buy a new sim card, only to notice you are receiving debit and credit alerts of someone else on the sim card, you have not registered it with your bank as a sim card for your bank transaction.

How do you explain this, that the sim card you bought is someone else sim card? If you are to be a hacker, this is how you will tamper with the person's bank account to gain access to it, even their social media accounts are not left out of it

[electronicash]

Yes, is my if it is been registered by me! But I know one day it won’t be my again or even be bound from using it after a several years of not being login on it, which can either be of my death, or notice to have been hacked by hackers, will wish to dump it for another one to avoid being Manipulated. This my own view in the said topic.

This reminds me of the mobile networks we make use of, I bought an mtn sim card and after two days I started receiving debit and credit alerts from a bank account that I don't even have, it means that someone else's line was sold to me, this just tells you how nothing is private anymore. No matter how secure your social media space is it can always be breached somehow

You can imagine, how disappointing this was. For you to buy a new sim card, only to notice you are receiving debit and credit alerts of someone else on the sim card, you have not registered it with your bank as a sim card for your bank transaction.

How do you explain this, that the sim card you bought is someone else sim card? If you are to be a hacker, this is how you will tamper with the person's bank account to gain access to it, even their social media accounts are not left out of it

someone own the sim card in the past is probably true. the network is just seeing the number gets activate so it sends messages.
or it could be some scammers who also have access to the network. in my country, a large scale scam was intercepted by authorities only to find out the group are Chinese who are flushing out the money of the people with debit and credit card are linked to the Telcos. 

yup even the mobile numbers you got thru buying simcards are not ours.

[SamReomo]

Is your social media account yours?

If you're on a reputed social media platform then yes that account is yours and as long as you don't do something that might be against the rules of the platform, then you're the only owner of the social media account.

However, if someone does wrong things with that social media account then that account may get banned by the social media platform that allowed the users to make their own accounts. Only in case of breaking o rules and posting wrong material can make something like that happen, otherwise the account belongs to the holder and no can change anything in it.