Binand, In Malayalam there is a saying 'eliye pedichu illam chuduka', which means to burn your house to get rid of the mice. Your suggestion of not using the social media at all is like that, it would definitely work, but are you willing to let go of your house?
You are assuming there is no usefulness to the social media. Probably you are unaware of what is happening around you. It is a powerful and critical tool for political organizing. Even years long dictatorships have been thrown out in the middle east thanks to a huge role played by social media. In oue own country IAC and AAP success owes a large part of its success to social media. The powerful goverments of the world has no doubt about its power to question their authorities. If you are following the news closely, you would know there is all out attack against private communications. Diaspora is answer to keeping all the benefits of social media without compromising our privacy. As for encryption, its use is not widespread. Do you use encryption? 2013/12/30, Binand Sethumadhavan <[email protected]>: > On 29 December 2013 20:41, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote: >> Diaspora is an an important solution to this critical problem facing >> all of us. But as it is a social network, along with technical part, >> we need to take it to the masses. >> >> So if you are keen about protecting your privacy, join us in this >> campaign and lets together plan how far we can take it. > > One question I have is, if one is keen about protecting one's privacy > then the right course of action seems to me is to not participate in > (online) social networking at all. So given that the other half of the > critical problem (encrypted email) is a solved problem for probably > two decades, I don't understand why Diaspora is an "important > solution". > > Binand > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
