I Welcome Myself to Folkbook
I just signed up at a site called folkbook, which seems to be sort of a clone of Facebook. I’m angry at facebook. Not over the data sharing or invasion of privacy. If I were concerned about privacy, I wouldn’t be posting all sorts of twaddle on the internet in the first place. If you’re on the internet looking for friends, just as if you’re in a pub looking for friends, you’ve just got to accept that your privacy is a bit compromised right off the bat. No, it’s their censorship policy that bothers me, particularly their anti-marijuana attitude.
It’s bad enough that it’s illegal in most places to grow it,have it, use it or sell it but to refuse to post pictures of it is just bizarre. They say they don’t want to encourage it’s use, but what about their members who DO want to encourage it’s use. It strikes me as a basic free speech issue and it’s chilling to me that the anti-pot people have so much power that they can make it virtually illegal – in both senses of the word virtual – to even talk about the benefits of this wonderful, wonderful plant.
I haven’t left Facebook yet. Boycotts don’t usually work, and I don’t want to be the only one boycotting while everybody I know is happily chatting away on facebook. So, we’ll see how Folkbook works out, first.
There was another site I looked at, called diaspora (yuck. what a hideous name). It sounded like they had a lot of the same ideas as me about what a social networking site should be, but they got a bit heavy on the computer speak, so I didn’t hang around. Maybe later, if it gets simpler.
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