u/Low-Question3472

So i have recently decided with all this AI everywhere, scanning my emails, and probably my text messages, social media usage, online bank accounts, debit/credit cards, and the WiFi knowing who’s home and what they’re doing.
I feel like I have zero privacy and the world is headed in a weird direction.
I personally want to mitigate my digital foot print. Obviously you cannot 100% delete your digital footprint especially since I’ve had an iPhone since I was 12 but I would like a fresh start, I would like to see ads that aren’t personalized to me and I would like my phone to not track everything I do. Like I used to be able to google something and my phone wouldn’t know. But now I google something and I see it on instagram, TikTok, ads, google suggestions, EVEN IN MY PREDICT TEXTS!

I want to start slow and slowly get to a point where it’s very hard to find my digital footprint.

So what are easy, inexpensive things I can do to protect my privacy?

Keep in mind, I am a college student and I also recently started a 9-5 as a Financial Advisor so my privacy isn’t just important for myself but also my client and peers information.

So i have recently decided with all this AI everywhere, scanning my emails, and probably my text messages, social media usage, online bank accounts, debit/credit cards, and the WiFi knowing who’s home and what they’re doing.
I feel like I have zero privacy and the world is headed in a weird direction.
I personally want to mitigate my digital foot print. Obviously you cannot 100% delete your digital footprint especially since I’ve had an iPhone since I was 12 but I would like a fresh start, I would like to see ads that aren’t personalized to me and I would like my phone to not track everything I do. Like I used to be able to google something and my phone wouldn’t know. But now I google something and I see it on instagram, TikTok, ads, google suggestions, EVEN IN MY PREDICT TEXTS!

I want to start slow and slowly get to a point where it’s very hard to find my digital footprint.

So what are easy, inexpensive things I can do to protect my privacy?

Keep in mind, I am a college student and I also recently started a 9-5 as a Financial Advisor so my privacy isn’t just important for myself but also my client and peers information.

Over the past year or two, I noticed everything on social media, TikTok, YouTube, instagram, etc. shows me the same thing over and over again. It never shows me anything new, never shows me anything outside of the box. When I Use AI, it always gives me the most basic answers and never digs deeper, never does research. When I point something out, or say something creative I want to do, it tells me why I shouldn’t do it, why it won’t work, and why I should do xyz instead. Also everything on social media is WILDLY inappropriate. I mean murders, sexual content, fighting, then the next post is someone with money, traveling and a hot girl. Then it will be Poltics, Epstine, and then stuff about eating and graping kids.
It’s also so sick! I hate everything about the internet and social media. And it feels like in a few years people will start getting in serious trouble with their digital footprint when all this government surveillance becomes public people are going to start getting accused and framed for looking at certain post that lean this way politically or whatever it is. Even though you don’t choose what you see! The algorithm chooses it for you! So the algorithm is forcing you to see something and then they’re going to turn around and accuse you and label you all types of things.

My bad

My point is, it feels like everything on my phone is manipulating,mistreating, bullying, trying to get a reaction out me, and down right abusing my psyche and mental health. And I want a restart with the internet and algorithms.

So how do I do that? How can I manage to delete and suppress everything about me online, and then come back with a new email, phone plan, computer accounts, etc.

I’m 23, just graduated, and started as a Financial Advisor at a well-known firm. For the first 6 months I get a $6,000 base while I build my client base. After 18 months, I’ll owe $1,000/month to keep working there (less if I choose a cubicle or work from home instead of an office). I’ve also heard the schedule is flexible; I can set my own hours and work as much or as little as I want. And they give me about 200 “warm” leads which are people’s rolled over retirement plans from bankrupt companies.

On paper it sounds good, but I have no real picture of what this actually looks like long-term. A few things I’m trying to figure out:

**•**	What separates advisors who make it from those who don’t?

**•**	How do you actually grow revenue/AUM once you’re past the initial client-building phase?

**•**	Is it realistic to get to a point where you’re only in the office a couple times a month, or is that more marketing than reality?

**•**	For those a few years in — what does your day-to-day actually look like now vs. when you started?

And what is the fastest way to build up recurring revenue?

Would love to hear from anyone who’s been doing this a few years, especially if you started around the same age.