6 Jun
2012
6 Jun
'12
6:23 p.m.
> Socnets are just a tool - a free and easy one.
Um. No.
They are not free. They entail some substantial costs - non-monetary,
many of them, but that does not make them any less costs. They entail
surrendering a substantial level of control over one's privacy and
various aspects of one's own identity. In many cases they demand a
relatively modern computer and, in some of those cases, turning control
of it over to someone else's software.
These may be costs you consider ignorable. They may be costs you have
already paid. But they are still costs, costs that for some people are
significant.
As for `easy', that's a very personal judgement call. I have watched
people use Facebook and its ilk; there is very little I would find easy
about using them.
> Sure, don't use them if you don't want,
but in doing so you must
> accept that you are going to miss out on lots of stuff. That's fine
> - it's your choice. But it is not fair or acceptable to ask others
> to go out of their way or to endure inconvenience to satisfy your
> whimsical preferences.
Why not? You seem to feel it's perfectly acceptable to ask _us_ to put
up with _your_ preferences....
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