[dba-Tech] Any Way To Escape Facebook?

Hi Arthur

Do I get the impression that F...B... is not for you?

>From time to time I've felt tempted to sign up but have so far resisted -
you may help me to keep it that way.
I only have a lurker account linked to an anonymous gmail account - for this
purpose only and with no forwarding.

Didn't you, by the way, have the same experience with linked-in? Lots of
spam and little fun.

Personally, I wouldn't know where to find hours and hours for browsing and
commenting on these "social" sites. Perhaps the biggest crime of F...B... is
the theft of good productive hours from the victims (users).

/gustav


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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Arthur Fuller
Sendt: 3. april 2013 12:43
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: [dba-Tech] Any Way To Escape Facebook?

I thought that I had escaped this evil witch, but apparently not. I want to
escape Facebook once and for all and to evaporate all traces that I ever
made the mistake of thinking that this might be interesting. It is NOT
interesting. I want out! I want never to hear another communication from
anything or anyone related to Facebook. I hate this site and everything it
stands for and I want out out out and permanently out. Can anyone tell me to
achivieve this? I have tried various solutions and still I receive crap from
said site. I want to be Gone and never thought of again. Can you advise how
I might achieve this? I'm going insane with crap from Facebook.
Please help me nuke this mofo. This is the worst plague in my life. I HATE
HATE HATE Facebook.

Unless I was unclear, every single thing that Facebook represents is what I
regard as an assault on my privacy and my selected community of equals, and
a bunch more other things. I hate Facebook even more than I hate racist
mofos dedicated to various causes. I think that Facebook is an Evil creation
created by a man with serious social problems, and I want to remove myself
forever from its presence, and that is apparently not a simple task.

This sickens me. I wish I had the resources to launch a class-action lawsuit
against these people, but I don't. so that's just farting in the wind. I
want a way out of Facebook and every other similar "resource" -- emphasis on
the irony -- these fuckers are only interested in exploiiting the community,
and contribute Nothing! Get the fork away from me, all you bloodsuckers. I
want absolutely NO particpation in your ostensible communities! I want you
leeches to be heated with a hot iron and to die and never again visit my
feet.

There is a larger picture here, and it's time that someone talked about it.
I guess that it's up to me. The corporatization of the net is the death of
the net. There. I said it. The net started out as an Information Machine but
it has been co-opted into a marketing machine. This is the most tragic
outcome possible. What began as a machine for democracy has turned into a
marketing machine. What began as "Freedom of Information" has turned into
"Information for Money". This, frankly, makes me puke. I know that I am not
going to win this war; they have drones and other evil weapons against which
I have little or no chance. All I can do is raise a flag and then die when a
drone hits me.

But before the drone hits, I need this to be said. Once upon a time, the
internet promised a democratic future. Unfortunately, the corporations beat
us to the punch. The internet is now owned by them, and it is going to take
a huge rebellion to overcome this.

I don't think that I shall be able to resist the black heliocopters lurking
over my apartment. I think that they are going to win this battle, and that
I shall be dead within this week or this month at best. They are hovering.
This may be my last Send.

If there is any last message that I want to send, it's this:
Please get off Facebook any other similar thing. Get off it right now.
Change all your email addresses etc. and get OFF THE MAP! Do it right
fucking now or suffer the consequences. Trust me, I know what the
consquences are. I have been there and done that, and if you leave one
single trace, I can find you and all your relatves, and if you think for one
minute that is complex, try me. I can fin your second cousin's second child,
in a heartbeat. This has become trivial.

I didn't say I was looking. Far from it. I am not that kind of person, and
I'm confident that most of you listers who know me would attest to that.
But that is not the point. I'm just saying that that everything you share is
a potential liability, which may affect your children, with hideous
outcomes.

I thought that I knew a way to escape Facebook but apparently I was wrong,
because despite my best attempts I still receive mail from this despicable
organization.

--
Arthur
Cell: 647.710.1314

Prediction is difficult, especially of the future.
  -- Niels Bohr