tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post928347205853919337..comments2024-03-29T07:33:41.566-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Staying Off Social MediaSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-71054723425455419262018-11-07T04:50:04.861-05:002018-11-07T04:50:04.861-05:00I stopped carrying my Motorola microtac flip phone...I stopped carrying my Motorola microtac flip phone when it became apparent that employers were deciding I was their new personal assistant. Wouldn't even spend five minutes reading a man page, calls me instead. Continued to carry the alphanumeric pager, for some reason employers used sane prioritization for that. Now I carry a soap-bar cell phone in the car with the battery out to call AAA. It's really useful, really cheap, and unless I'm waiting for a callback from AAA or the mechanic nobody can call me to interrupt me. I check my email and blogs once or twice a day. I really enjoy it. I also really enjoy all the other things I do each day which benefit from hours of uninterrupted focused concentration. I wonder how much susceptability to distraction comes from public school, where you're not allowed to concentrate on anything longer than 45 minutes before a bell rings. I think the Amish have the right idea, when they put the phone in a hut outside the main house, so it can't interrupt them. I like much of modern industralized life and wouldn't enjoy the Amish setpoints for rejection of it. However I do appreciate their idea of consciously considering whether any new thing will make their life better. Paul Graham's _The Acceleration of Addictiveness_:<br /><br />http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-16352700680492354362018-11-06T10:52:34.617-05:002018-11-06T10:52:34.617-05:00I got you beat. I am on no social media either. ...I got you beat. I am on no social media either. But yesterday I took my phone with me when we went to Walmart because my wife likes to go shopping for clothes which I find boring so I go to the sporting goods and hardware department to browse for awhile. My wife calls when she is done and I meet her at the checkout. But yesterday she had to come find me, my phone wasn't working. In fact it hadn't been working for over two months. Who knew? I never use it. My credit card valid date passed and without me knowing it my phone account was cancelled two months ago. So not only do I not have an social accounts I don't use my phone enough to even know if it is working. Couldn't be happier, I'm thinking about not calling AT&T to get reconnected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-90926557705998811612018-11-06T06:19:00.582-05:002018-11-06T06:19:00.582-05:00You make THINK that you don't have a Facebook ...You make THINK that you don't have a Facebook account, but you actually have one anyway. Facebook generates advertising revenue through the use of "Facebook pixels." The way this work is that a company who advertises on Facebook embeds a pixel on a website owned by that company. That pixel is unique to the advertiser. Every time that company's website is downloaded, the pixel is downloaded as well.<br /><br />That pixel comes from a server that is owned by Facebook, who logs the downloader's IP every time a pixel is downloaded. That IP eventually has a profile that is generated by every website that you go to. In other words, Facebook has a pretty accurate profile of the websites you frequent and what products you are interested in. <br /><br />That information is very valuable to marketers, and it is sold to them. Divemedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-32798480884541691122018-11-06T03:17:45.805-05:002018-11-06T03:17:45.805-05:00I have never used any social media except blogs an...I have never used any social media except blogs and the comments therein.<br /><br />When I was at the local PD I watched officers get their careers destroyed when people looked at their facebook and 'interpreted' what the officers believed.<br /><br />Which, in some respects, is a sick payback, as officers use idiots' social media, especially facebook, against them. Kinda stupid to have a picture of yourself surrounded by drugs, guns and cash when you're on probation for drug trafficking. Dumb-butts.<br /><br />Your social media will be used against you by 'your betters' or by your work if they want to find any excuse to fire you.<br />Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-58765077875465692702018-11-06T00:03:01.625-05:002018-11-06T00:03:01.625-05:00Aesop:
I have a blog (technically two, but the se...Aesop:<br /><br />I have a blog (technically two, but the second is pretty neglected), and an e-mail address. That's <i>it</i>.<br />I might, someday, get my crap together to the point of posting YouTube videos. Only because with two decades in it, I "get" video production, and showing is better than just writing about.<br /><br />Anything beyond that is pointless, from where I'm sitting.<br /><br />Going on twenty years, and I can't see the point behind any of the (anti-)"social" media, other than to live in a glass house. It's pathological narcissism for exhibitionists.<br /><br />They have meds for that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-65999240104289519542018-11-05T22:16:07.299-05:002018-11-05T22:16:07.299-05:00It's a real-world spin on the short story &quo...It's a real-world spin on the short story "Death By Ecstasy".drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.com