There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
As curious as I was about my own ancestry, this is exactly why I never did it myself. Not that it matters, though. If any of your close relatives do it they’ll have a near match for you as well.
Nah, peak was 2005-6 when it was just college students. You could suddenly find the best parties like it was nothing, homework answers were exchanged openly, neither your parents or siblings could access and see what was going on. Farmville style games came about in 2009, which is when the decline became apparent to me.
Yea, I suppose it is about perspective. I started using Facebook in 2009 when I was in high school. For me, it was the same deal— finding friends, hangouts, parties, etc. and it noticeably went downhill as it became more corporate and flooded with boomers who brought a toxic culture to it, imo.
I did it out of curiosity as well, not on 23andme though. Since I wanted to finish my grandfather’s history tree after his passing. He told me a lot about missing family ties because of two world wars Etc… the DNA data helped a lot.
As curious as I was about my own ancestry, this is exactly why I never did it myself. Not that it matters, though. If any of your close relatives do it they’ll have a near match for you as well.
Same! My gf begged me to do it. She made me feel like an asshole for not doing it. Called me crazy to think anything would happen. Well here we are!
I had a girlfriend circa 2010 that was almost the same, but about joining Facebook.
To be fair, Facebook 2010 was peak and nowhere near the toxic environment it is today.
I feel there’s an intuitive suspicion when it comes to DNA Ancestry companies.
Nah, peak was 2005-6 when it was just college students. You could suddenly find the best parties like it was nothing, homework answers were exchanged openly, neither your parents or siblings could access and see what was going on. Farmville style games came about in 2009, which is when the decline became apparent to me.
Yea, I suppose it is about perspective. I started using Facebook in 2009 when I was in high school. For me, it was the same deal— finding friends, hangouts, parties, etc. and it noticeably went downhill as it became more corporate and flooded with boomers who brought a toxic culture to it, imo.
So did you end up dropping her out of your top 5 on MySpace over it?
Apparently you can actually do it through the company that 23 and ME contracts. And that company has way better privacy policy.
I did it out of curiosity as well, not on 23andme though. Since I wanted to finish my grandfather’s history tree after his passing. He told me a lot about missing family ties because of two world wars Etc… the DNA data helped a lot.