From: team8martinland@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:52:24 +0100, Eberhard Schefold  wrote:   
      
   > Ned Ludd wrote:   
   >   
   >> I'll admit to being old school.  I can't get too excited about Facebook   
   >> because it's a pull -- I have to go get it, where a good NNTP client is   
   >> a lot more like a push.  It's in Thunderbird along with my E-Mail.   
   >   
   > I would never join Facebook either. I see a lot of privacy issues, and   
   > basically, I don't want my "social network" in the Internet. I want to   
   > have a nice conversation over a topic that interests me, expose the   
   > personal information that I feel comfortable with, and expose it in a   
   > textual way that is understood by my fellow group members, but not quite   
   > as easily from commercial and government "agencies" as in the   
   > standardized queryable way that Facebook provides.   
   >   
   > Too bad that I'm a fossil that way, and may miss the fun. But it is my   
   > belief that after a phase of neglect and subsequent major scandals,   
   > personal privacy will again become a major concern. In the age of the   
   > Internet, the citizen is made of glass.   
      
   Eberhard, you're taking the words right out of my mouth, and quite eloquently   
   so! ;)   
      
   ML   
      
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