Subject: No Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc From: Invite_Sender@Facebook_Addict I append http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/no_facebook.txt Needs to be merged with http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/contact/#no_social_media Thanks for your request to link from me & to me. YES : Only If you provide a _full_ publicly accessible web page: Then I am interested, please confirm if so & provide precise URL (web ref) to your _full_ detail, eg not on LinkedIn & FaceBook etc, http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/contacts/ But first read on to make sure your page IS public. NO : If you use a commercial link swap service of a would be Monopolist: I deliberately Avoid Social & Business Media companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google's stuff, clouds & web forums etc ! I do Not link to superficial pages hosted by commercial intermediaries, that require the public all get logins & passwords before one can fully access detail: They are just more would be monopolists trying to spread their addiction. If you don't know I avoid computer monopolists, you probably don't know me well enough to link to. Amazing that some vendors advertise on public street hoardings, Only with address of facebook ! not their own domain, trapping themselves & customers to subservience under proprietary facebook. No Harvesting: - I don't care that logins are `free' as in costing no money. - I won't let yet another company try to harvest my mail address & traffic & contacts to advertise at me or associates. - I won't waste my time learning proprietary closed systems & receiving mail & adverts from operators. No remote storage & web forums: - No Mail accessed remotely that needs constant net access to read/ write/ search. - No mail on servers abused by alien American NSA spies. - No slow forum sites like ex toytowngermany_dot_com<, burdened by a slew of issues inc. adverts, spam, cookies, viruses, & censors. No Security: Anyone skilled in computers, knows that the more glitzy crud stuck on web sites to please Joe Loser, the more there is that can & will go wrong, & perhaps be a security loophole. An [in]- security paper on Facebook, (no URL saved). was scarey, heavy reading, even with a math then computing background, (so Facebook doubtless feel safe that it's clueless end users will remain happily ignorant. No Spam: My spam filter normaly discards unseen, automated link requests sent from robots at Linkedin & Facebook etc. I'm happy to stay in personal contact, through normal direct email, phone & events with beer/ coffee/ walking/ biking/ skiing / tech. mail lists, whatever. But not interested in LinkedIn & FaceBook etc USA + NSA corporate sites. See also: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/contact/#no_social_media PS Never mail any @mailman.berklix lists from any such site, only from real personal email addresses, there's always danger of flooding, connecting 2 robots ! http://www.berklix.com Computer Consultancy http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/ My Resume - English & German http://www.berklix.com/free/ Free Software http://www.berklix.org Free Organisations & Clubs