[wellylug] [Pgug] WellyLUG rekindling

[Daniel Reurich]

Hi Phil,

You make an interesting point. However....

Short version: You are the product to be exploited.

Long version:

My biggest dislike of Face book is the potential for faceless third 
parties to find out more about me then I'd normally make public.  Things 
like who my "friends", associates, business partners etc are and what 
groups I "like".  You have little control over you online self.  AKA 
it's a privacy thing.

A close second is that in real relationships you may project different 
facets of your persona to different people.  You will have a different 
level and modes of relating and conversation for your wife/partner as 
you would with your work colleague, client, brother, mother in law etc. 
  You may not wish your "mother in law" to know who your drinking 
buddies are, or what you got up to on Saturday night.  Also some types 
of inter-relating depend on the particular context etc.

Facebook assumes relationships are a mesh of one to many with a flat 
view of you to all who care to look.  In reality relationships are 
primarily one to one, with a contextual colouring.

In other words Facebook is a one faced 2 bit soul sucker trying to plumb 
your inter-personal network for purely financial gain with no regard for 
for the damage they do to you (only limited by their need to keep you 
hooked in so that they can continue to reap the benefits of selling you 
over and over).

Some people are oblivious to this, others know and don't really care, 
some do know and do care and choose not to be exploited for others profit.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

D:

On 14/03/13 12:35, Phil Daintree wrote:
> Yes all initiatives are good ... negativity kills initiative... I only
> recently registered a facebook page - my wife is well into it with ipad
> etc. although she has a puppy linux desktop. I am interested about the
> strong reactions to it though. I wonder if we linux types like belonging
> to a minority tinkerers group and actively eschew any mainstream
> ideas/software simply because it is mainstream? I like to think I am
> open to good ideas irrespective of their popularity but I may well
> actually like being in the tinkerer minority. Improving access to our
> group would be good and FB/some other social networking site makes sense
> in that regard IMHO.
> Phil

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Daniel Reurich
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