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We Need a New Richard Stallman
- willvarfar 15y ago"The alternative is to live without Facebook, which is to live without all the benefits that social networking has given humanity. This is not a real alternative at all." seems silly to imagine anyone believes this. I don't use FB and my life is perfectly bearable.
- shadowsun7 15y agoSame here. But it is not for many people (e.g. my dad, who's now reconnecting to his old friends over Facebook). More importantly, however, there is the increasing importance of social networking w/r/t revolutions.
- willvarfar 15y ago> the increasing importance of social networking w/r/t revolutions And I thought the revolution in Egypt only happened when they turned the Internet off so everybody had to actually go outside to see what was going on... Seriously though, the "importance w/r/t revolutions" is not something independently quantified, is it?
- wccrawford 15y agoEspecially since I'm hard-pressed to name one of those benefits that isn't given by another service. IM, Email, Calendars, Blogs... There are formats for these services already and the only difference is that contacts aren't 2-way. (Which can be an advantage.)
- mooism2 15y agoPrivacy and free data / data portability are in tension. If we're friends on Facebook, you decide to switch to Google+, you import all your friendships/etc from Facebook onto Google+, isn't that an invasion of my privacy (disclosing information about me to Google+)? The free software movement doesn't have this inbuilt tension.
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- shadowsun7 15y agoHoly crap, that's something I needed to see. Thanks for the reference.