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Question: "Why don't you use `social media' web sites ?""
Answer: "Because it's usually Anti- Social & lacks
discipline.
Summary
Usually some users (Trolls tend to hide behind anonymity to indulge in
irresponsible libelous abuse & bullying, degrading
conversations with flames etc. Normal users foolishly lock themselves into
their commercial provider's subset of the internet, so its
hard to attach, import/ export & quote, they often can't
be contacted by any other public standard addresses of web
home page / email/ phone/ post/ sms/ fax/ telex etc, &
they are also un-contactable if their provider cuts them off
in any dispute, & because they are too dumb to realise all this they
are usually also not net savy, &
usually fail to rigorously attribute sources & attach URLs (web
refs etc) & too often fall gullible to unsustantiated allegations, etc
- No, I'm not on web private forums eg
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Gulp etc.
- No, Not everyone likes to use "[anti-] social media", aka
web chatter forums.
- No I'm not alone using mail lists, I am
on maybe 100 mail lists that have lots of other people.
One of my mail filters: www . berklix . com / ~jhs / dots
/ .procmailrc_lists
- Yes, more people less technically skilled like click
& fumble `[anti-] social' web forums.
- Yes, lots don't want to learn mail lists or anything else
either.
- Yes, Most use Microsoft, No need to follow
lemmings).
- Yes, Mail lists can help exclude fumblers too lazy to
think.
- Yes that bar is low, known as I
supported too many lazy incompetents on a small subset of mail
lists.
- Yes many technically highly competent friends like mail
lists, & tend to avoid web forums that attract more
newbies, & less skilled people.
- Yes, Anonymous forums more often become
ANTI-social, irresponsible, & trivial, Mail lists
with a real personal sender addresses can tend to discourage
some irresponsibility engenderd by anonimity; Though yes,
there's occasional flame wars too on mail lists.
- Yes, web forums may avoid spam by mail, But also usually
anonymous webs have adverts and more noise from members, so
forums are then censored by usually unpaid egotists to keep
noise down.
The choice becomes noise from mail spam (that can
be automaticaly filtered) or noise from anonymous forum members
with less discipline, subject to censors.
You then get a choice of censors: Either egotists who think
they are appreciated, but are not (power corrupts),
or paid censors, responsible to a boss, but paid poorly, & overworked,
better to let the the users themselves discipline, & split & merge
between mail lists, on whichever forums, using plain human names,
as people do in physical meetings.
- I prefer noise from spam than forums,
as I block almost all spam automatically.
( Despite my servers & my addresses are massively
assailed by spammers, harvested from public archive sites
with my addresses on, some un-obfuscated from era before
spammers existed, + my domains + lists I'm
on & run, (most especially all the MS PCs harvested by
spammer viruses on certain clueless lists I
run)
- I avoid monopolists such as Microsoft
Facebook Google etc trying
to privatise the Internet & lock everyone in, so avoid
using them. I'm a keen supporter of Open Source & Open
Standards. Other supporters of Open Source &
Standards in Munich include eg BIM & SFD & Linux & Gnu
& other clubs.
- I prefer Push (mail) To Pull (web) technology, eg I want
my devices to be able to hold archives of messages to be
read, without needing free instantaneous fast continuous
internet connectivity.
- BTW: Some domains such as freebsd.org offer a choice of
mail lists & web forums.
I don't use the web forums, but do use mny of the mail lists.
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