6 Jun
2012
6 Jun
'12
6:59 p.m.
On 6 June 2012 19:23, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
Life involves costs. Big deal. If I don't have to pay money for
something, that means that it's free, in the common daily use of the
word.
Such as? The line-length thing? Oh get real!
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> 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.
Scott McNeally said it first and best. "You *have* no privacy on the
Internet. Get over it."
Nobody is forcing you to use it. Feel free not to.
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.
Let me just check that I've got this straight. So you feel that you
are not competent to use a modern website that is used by about a
billion people and it's the *website's* fault?
Riiiiiiiiiiight... :?D
> 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....