On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 20:27:09 +0100, grumpy wrote: > > ---------------------------------------- > > From: The Wanderer <wande...@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, to...@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.
