[dba-Tech] Social Media

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Some ideas around managing social media would be to not have your actual
birthday, actual schools you attended and so on.

I still have a fb account but that’s because the the groups of family and
friends that choose to abandon the platform :-/



On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 9:40 PM Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> There is nothing free.
>
> Social media may initially appear to be free but you pay with your
> profile, your soul, to speak. Most of us have accepted the bargain with
> some limitations of course. Europe has been fighting back, we, in the west
> rarely do and in Asia, particularly China, the populations seems to fully
> accept the way it is:
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 9:43:36 AM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Social Media
>
> Call me anything you want, I can even submit some appellations:
> anti-social-media for starters. I hare Facebook, Twitter and all the rest
> of these evil sites. Several years ago I signed up to FB, then tried to
> delete my account, only to learn that it's a process that takes a month.
> What I have to declare is my simple belief that "Social Media Sucks!" These
> are evil techs, masquerading as your friends. Detach yourself now or become
> part of the conspiracy to map the world, for the benefit of the advertisers
> who pay for the asides.
> It's drop-dead simple: If it free to you, then you are the product. There's
> no way around this thesis. The only way these companies can make money is
> by selling you -- and that means your clicks, your browser history, your FB
> Likes, and so on. Whatever you think is free, that means you are the
> product. Think carefully about that the next time you login to any site.
>
> --
> Arthur
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