Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)
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> From: The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
> Sent: Fri Mar 12 10:38:54 CET 2021
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)
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> On 2021-03-12 at 03:27, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:11:16PM -0800, Weaver wrote:
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> >> 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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