It is rather alarming how insubstantial it all is--
google ,facebook, apple selling gadgets that are
really quite useless and google and facebook
making money on ads and no other way(google
sells how far up the search list you are but
that is ad stuff too in effect)
The whole USA and a good deal of the world economy
seems to be turning into castles in the air.
Robert
On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Richard Dobson wrote:
Oh well, looks like I am the odd one out, again...I am on FB, but under what
for convenience I will call my "stage name", which my friends know and
understand but my music students or the idly curious will never find;
On 08/10/2012 21:54, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
In my case, the *reason* is that IMHO FB is a big swindle,
and not stimulating anything positive, au contraire.
I was not aware this was a requirement of a website. I doubt very much my own
website stimulates anything much at all - hmm, donations via paypal remain
conspicuous by their absence...so this must be the reason, then. Clearly the
internet should be a commerce-free zone, like what it used to be, I guess.
Earning money is so last century.
Who pays for FB ? The advertisers. Who pays the advertisers ?
The consumers who buy the product or services advertised.
Hmm, not me - I don't buy anything. The adverts I see are all irrelevant,
and sometimes amusingly random. And, really, not very intrusive. It's hard
to believe they would find any paying customers at all. I think it amounts to
rather less than the ultimate conspiracy theory.
So in the end we, the consumers, are paying ourselves for
being profiled, analysed and swindled by targeted commercial
'information'.
The only thing I am paying for is my ISP; I use FB as a free resource. I
rather suspect, au contraire, I am being swindled by my supplier of
electricity and gas. With one or two exceptions, all my FB "Friends" are
actually friends in real life. I don't spend hours on it (except when I
forget to log off). I have had the odd useful chat with someone to arrange to
meet up or whatever. I sometimes use it a bit like twitter (which I have yet
to sign up to) without the 140 char limit, when it amuses me to do so. The
most the profilers will get from me is random pictures of cute animals,
flowers, or views of Stourhead (ho, dangerously valuable personal info
there!), and the odd shared link of "topical interest". Strangely, I see no
adverts at all for either flowers or cute animals.
But, I did close my LinkedIn account, as I really could not see the point of
it, for me. YMMV etc.
Richard Dobson
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