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Re: My God

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From: DG
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:30
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Pixel "#~ schreef op 26-12-2014 15:55:
>>> WHAT!?!?! FACEBOOK!!!!???!?! YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!
>>>
>>> What's the advantage of Facebook? Would it add anything of value to my
>>> life? Why would I venture out into the world of http to go to a
>>> website owned by a company that is notorious for tracking and
>>> profiling its users? And I am sure they have policies about what you
>>> can and cannot say. That wouldn't work for me.
>>>
>>> I hate social networks. I am not social.
>>>
>> I must admit to the latter myself. Unusually for Aglami, Reinder's
>> little rant that probably got his head as red as his haw strip filled
>> nose is unpleasantly accurate. I too have great misgivings about how
>> Facecook uses it's users. Weirdly I have far less apprehension about
>> Google. Even though they know much more about me, I suppose.
>>
>> One Facecook thing I dislike is how it would connect people from totally
>> different parts of my life. I don't want colleagues from years ago
>> getting in touch with people I work with now or old schoolmates. Or have
>> a list of exes and family members. Someone relative has made a family
>> tree going back to, among others, medieval France. Imagine that on your
>> facecook page. Friend suggestions to some medieval French peasant.
>> Getting to know some Le Baldrick who you'd never have known otherwise.
>
> Well, you've got some point there.
> I wouldn't want to expose other people to Reinder...
>
> Hmmm...
>
One could consider a PixelFromAglami-account and a 
TheOmnipotentLeaderOfAglami-account on Facecook. It would keep Reinder 
in quarantine.

-- 
Danny.
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From: DG <dammygerritsen@censored.zzn.com>
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Subject: Re: My God
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:30:20 +0100
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