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 !

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