Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)
On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 20:27:09 +0100, grumpy wrote:
> > ----------------------------------------
> > 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?)
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> the borg
> people who can not function without being part of a collective
Human beings are sociable. As are other animals.
> they refuse to think for themselves
Really? Do you mean they refuse to think the same way as you do?
--
Brian.
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