[At-Large] facebook vote

[Hong Xue]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Rudi Vansnick <rudi.vansnick at isoc.be> wrote:

>
> Op 1-sep-2010, om 14:01 heeft Vittorio Bertola het volgende geschreven:
>
> > Il 01/09/10 02:50, Karl Auerbach ha scritto:
> >>
> >>>> Which of the following should be the URL of the At-Large Facebook fan
> >>>> page?
> >>
> >> I do hope that people realize that many people refuse to use Facebook
> >> because of its abysmal privacy practices.
> >
> > Also, many people were forced to start using Facebook notwithstanding
> > its abysmal privacy practices, because (at least here in Italy) for the
> > generation aged 15-25 Facebook === Internet. Most of them don't even
> > have an email address any more (let alone blogs or personal websites),
> > so if you want to communicate or spread ideas and information, you have
> > to be on Facebook.
> > Ciao,
>
> This is for me just a bit too far. If we all consider Facebook being the
> place to be and take distance from any other communication tool or platform,
> all of a sudden we will be dominated and manipulated by structure as
> Facebook. Corporate business already took some distance and are disabling
> their personnel having access to facebook. I understand that presence in a
> space such as facebook is offering advantages but I'm still considering it
> as a space where i will leave some links to our space without distributing
> information on facebook itself. It could start living it's own live which is
> as such uncontrollable  and could harm us more then it would help us.
>
>
Also there are few places where facebook is blocked and not accessible at
all. I, for one, can only access facebook when I'm outside of the country.

Hong