Thanks for your answer! My best,
FN On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 10:49 AM José María Mateos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 10:28:01AM -0600, Frederic Neyrat wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, > >environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on > >Facebook and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this > >"social" (?) network. > > I've been off Facebook (see caveats below), but the reasons people > typically have to stay there are essentially that it provides a useful > way of communicating with either a close circle of friends and family, > and to broadcast opinions to the world. And that utility is above all > other considerations. Is it used to wage psychological warfare on its > users? Sure, but of course it doesn't affect them, only other people. > > As I said, I don't have a Facebook account anymore, but keep close > contact with said friends and family using WhatsApp groups, which > belongs to Facebook, am I then out of Facebook entirely? I don't think > so. Would I like to use a different system/app/protocol/whatever? > Definitely, but I can't force everybody else to move; we're basically > stuck there due to the network effect. > > I am now the weird friend that from time to time shoots an e-mail; I'm > glad to say that it works, and that people tend to take it more > seriously than a Facebook message. As for broadcasting, I use a blog. > Do people read it? Barely, but at least what I post there is published > under my rules. > > Cheers, > > -- > José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org/ > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: >
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