Is my privacy practices destroying future millionaire Rohit?

Online Privacy Dilemma of Myself (Rohit)

Let's dive into how present poor Rohit is unknowingly destroying future millionaire Rohit by his paranoid privacy practices.

I keep telling myself I'm protecting my future from those online data brokers, Tech Giants, and hackers. But honestly? My privacy obsession is slowly killing the millionaire I want to become. I see it happening every single day. Maybe I'm just paranoid. Maybe I'm right. But either way, it's costing me something.

I rarely use Facebook. Their privacy policy makes me feel paranoid, the way they track everything, sell pieces of your information without even asking properly. So I stay away. But then I think... what if I have opportunities to make a community on FB? Or to make money with Facebook program? I might have been losing some interesting opportunities just because I refuse to give them my data. And now I'm sitting here wondering if that one business idea I had could've found the right person through a random comment or message. Probably not. But maybe.

Quora is the same story. I don't trust it. Feels like another place collecting everything I write, everything I search, turning it into profit. So I never bothered to use it; but people build whole careers there. They meet collaborators, get noticed, land gigs. I miss all of it. Every single opportunity that could've come from one thoughtful reply. And I just... scroll past. Tell myself it's safer this way. Is it?

Google is even worse. I call it the biggest data scraper. Usually I don't use most of Google products just thinking Google might have created a shadow profile on me to know me well and so that they can make money out of me. I am not using AI's like Gemini either. But Gemini is a wonderful invention. Although I'm still sceptical about all available AI in the market as they look like data collection machines. And I am not sure what they do with my data. How safe is my personal data in servers of those companies? What if that data goes in wrong hands? What if government use that data against me? It makes me paranoid that there is an AI who knows me better than I know myself. What if that AI becomes alive and uses my information to destroy my life? So I stayed away. Just assuming that I am winning the privacy game. Meanwhile everyone else who is using AI is moving ten times quicker. And I'm still here... stuck.

I also missed the concept of cold e-mailing. But I will try next time.

The funny thing  or maybe the pathetic thing is that even with all this effort, I'm not really safe. My phone company knows everything anyway. Location, calls, messages, apps I open, how long I stare at the screen. Pre-installed crap I can't delete. They collect data without consent. So I'm hiding from Facebook and Google like some master strategist, but the carrier has a full profile on me already. All this sacrifice for what? A fake bubble of security that doesn't even exist.

And then there's the people part. I'm introverted. Always have been. Crowds drain me. Parties feel pointless boredom. Networking events? Never been attended. I don't want more humans around me. I really don't. But the more I avoid them, the worse it gets. My social skills rust. No leadership skills. I can barely talk to three people without feeling exposed. Coping with different personalities, reading rooms, making deals face-to-face... all of it is underdeveloped. And I know , I really do know; you can't build real success in a vacuum. Look at Musk, Buffett, anyone who's made it big. Networks. Alliances. People who trust you because they've met you, talked to you, seen you show up. I keep myself locked away and wonder why nothing moves forward.

So here I am. Wanting millions. Dreaming of freedom. But every choice I make pulls me farther from it. Privacy matters. I won't pretend it doesn't. But this much? This extreme? It's not protection anymore. It's sabotage.

Maybe I should try all available online useful tools. Just use with caution and not to be paranoid about privacy.

And one more thing I remember while I was writing this. The way Indian cyber security expert, Mr. Amit Dubey Ji gives quotes from Bhagavad Gita to stop being paranoid about online safety. Bhagavad Gita says, "Desire, anger, greed, delusion (attachment) and ego are the main vices that disturb the mind and bind humans to suffering." So that's it. Fear of privacy comes because we are attached to worldly things. What if I'm not what I am thinking of myself? Then all this fear and ego fades away; detachment starts and paranoia is suddenly gone!

Let me attach a short re-phrased quote from Bhagavad Gita before I pause my writing ...

Bhagavad Gita 2:56-57

"One who is detached from the fruits of actions and balanced in pleasure and pain is truly wise. He remains steady and unshaken, like a calm ocean."

Huuusssshh!!!!

What do you think? Am I just making excuses... or is this really the price I'm paying?

Is it really current Rohit is sabotaging future millionaire Rohit?🙃

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