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Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)



On 2021-03-12 at 03:27, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:11:16PM -0800, Weaver wrote:

>> I have never had a Facebook account and never will.

> We (three?)  are the invisible Internet Underground \o/
> 
> [psst. don't tell anyone]
> 
> ;-)

I can go one better than that.

Unless my memory is failing me, I have only ever visited facebook.com
once in my life - and that was a mistake, I clicked on a link to
something that looked interesting without first checking the target domain.

I decided long, long ago (sometime in the first half of the first decade
of this century, IIRC) that I didn't trust Facebook - initially because
it and its embedded ads were a notorious vector for malware, later
because I just didn't trust it period. I made a conscious decision to
never risk visiting the site, and with that one exception (for which I
did have NoScript active) I'm fairly sure I've never broken from that.

I'm not as strongly antipathetic towards the other social-media sites,
but I still tend not to visit them. I do have a Twitter account
nowadays, but I rarely visit it, and the number of tweets I've sent out
is in the low double (or maybe even high single) digits.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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