On 6/16/2014 11:09 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
I use Twitter, but I'm becoming less pleased with
it as they progressively ramp up the spam rate.
I find that Facebook has the utility that my non computer literate
family and old friends, and quite a few who are, all are on there and
can be contacted. If that doesn't matter to you, there is little else
on FB but political discussions to piss you off.
I am subscribed to a lot of technical feeds on Twitter, and they work
quite well. I've gotten most things I care about from the actual
sources, way ahead of any of the media.
As an example, recently the ICE satellite recovery is interesting, but
it was chatted up by Keith Cowing on Nasa Watch first, FWIW.
And Google Plus seems to be morphing into a different form of latter day
usenet with a gui, as it flops around like a dead whale. Not sure if
any of the useful bits will survive, but the technical discussions are
pretty good there, and most of the people I want to get to with my
current projects are directly accessible there, not so much thru other
channels.
Staying off line puts you at a disadvantage, no matter what you say.
Making sure you put in only what you have to and controlling it is what
you have to do though. Garbage in Garbage out to anyone collecting info
on me is the best policy.