4 Social Media Apps That Are Probably Selling Your Data, Security Experts Warn

So many social media platforms collect and use users’ data that it’s difficult narrowing down the list to just four sites. On its face it makes sense why sites do this: to keep solvent and improve. A free site needs to generate revenue somehow, and that is when its users become its most important products. By collecting our data, these sites then turn around and sell it to third-party advertisers as well as use it for their own analytic purposes (to improve upon their own product).

The best way to keep a website from using your data is to not sign up for that website in the first place. But we get it: it’s difficult to avoid social media sites and they can be hard to quit. According to security experts, these four social media sites are selling your data — the more aware you are, the more informed a decision you can make.