If you use it to talk with 98% of the nontechnical world, and plan events, then there is nothing else.
If you eat your toenails during panel discussions and refuse even to have a phone, then this is a reasonable position.
Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
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Re: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
#12Can any one point out when was this article written ? He has some really valid points in there.
Looking at the links mentioned in the article, they span from 2011 to 2016 as is evident from the URLs. Seems it's being updated regularly.
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#13I turned off ublock so that I could load the stylesheet. Nope, stallman's site just looks like that. It's actually refreshing, just a radical departure from the status quo. Although, it is RMS so should've expected that...
If only the paragraph width was set to something reasonable (say, 33em) it would be great.
Re: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
#14Can any one point out when was this article written ? He has some really valid points in there.
No idea when it was created (probably early in Facebook's existence), but Stallman has people constantly update and add new stuff.
>but Stallman has people constantly update and add new stuff.
As can be seen by the latest links on the page, one of them from early June [1], others from May and March 2016
But, indeed, it was first created circa 2011
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Facebook's app has started scanning" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20160605165148/http://www.thereg... photos people take with their phones.
Re: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
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> extreme and uncompromising.
There is no middle ground with freedom. Either you're free, or you're not.
Re: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
#16I couldn't help but cringe every time the word "used" was used for "user" after the first occurence.
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Re: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
#17I couldn't help but cringe every time the word "used" was used for "user" after the first occurence.
He's not wrong.
edit: Per emsy's suggestion: I mean that he is just articulating that if something is free, you are the product, except he(stallman) articulates it by changing the noun to reflect his viewpoint.
also, I just deleted facebook.
Re: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
#18Uh, yet another lecture on how to live my life by his omniscience
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#19I couldn't help but cringe every time the word "used" was used for "user" after the first occurence.
This does give it a kind of bearded-conspiracy-theorist-ish vibe that puts me off too. But the underlying point in using the word makes sense and hey, maybe it'll deter some people from using Facebook without knowing exactly what they're subjecting themselves to. I can see such a thing sticking in people's minds.
Re: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
#20If you use it to talk with 98% of the nontechnical world, and plan events, then there is nothing else. If you eat your toenails during panel discussions and refuse even to have a phone, then this is a reasonable position.
Instead of arguing against the merit of his points, you choose to insult the person.