I'd like to cast a write-in vote for unix.com, as this is the only "social network" i use. Privacy is a valuable item these days and i don't think anybody is neither interested in what i had for breakfast today nor in which form it left my digestion system.
I always thought it is funny that everybody on Facebook is toting the "X people like that" where "X" is some really small number. If, say, 537 people like something, this in turn means that 1.1 billion (source: wikipedia) - 537 users don't give a damn. So, in fact, anything short of "500 million people like that" means that a qualified majority couldn't care less.
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figaro
Life would be awfully difficult without at least one email address and a mobile phone number.
Quite contrary! My life got a lot easier when i cancelled my mobile phone. I need e-mail (obviously), but i don't have to be available 24 hours/per day just to keep up my illusion of being important. I do not need internet access 24 hours/per day either. Life might be a real bad adventure, but it has helluva 3D-graphics and surround-sound.
I never had a smart phone, i sent maybe 5 SMS in my whole life and generally used my mobile phone as the portable version of my home phone as long as i had one. Call me old-fashioned, but a "phone" for me is something you use to talk with people, not to take pictures, send emails or use "apps". I once had a "Nokia Communicator", because there was a ssh-client available for it, which was handy. As soon as 10''-netbooks were available i got one, installed Fedora and got rid of the Communicator. Soon after i got rid of the old mobile phone i got instead.
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