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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
None of these issues being mentioned are limited to Goodreads. If you're concerned with entities gatheting information about your personal proclivities, then your only option is to stay aff the internet entirely. What you do and what you like is no secret on the internet. Period. Sharing your reading history in Mobilread's "What Are You Reading Now" thread can be tracked by the same all-powerful entities.
You either need to eschew online technology of any kind, or you need to give up the idea that you can keep people from learning private things about you through your online activities. There is no mddle ground.
You maintain your privacy by being a private person. Not by going to public places (physical or virtual) and sharing things that can be overheard.
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I didn't say those issues were limited to Goodreads, but I didn't think this would be the place to extend the discussion about them since this is a topic about that particular social network.
The OP asked for the benefits, someone enumerated them; I agreed, added that they entice me but that I'm particularly too concerned about privacy to benefit from them myself. Period. I didn't say my decision is the best for everyone, and all I did afterwards was to reply to what others posted.
I don't think that "you can either eschew technology entirely or accept the fact that people will learn private things about you through your online activities" is a precise statement — there's ways to elude surveillance and some gray areas, otherwise every criminal in the "deep web" would've been arrested by now.
But again, this is not the place to debate that. If the topic really interests you or anyone else so much, we can exchange PM's, otherwise let's just let it slide. I wasn't and I'm not trying to make a point, my post was an offhand comment, not a piece of advice.