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Why You Should Never Rely on Social Media

posted by mrpg on Sunday April 29 2018, @03:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-my-life-is-in-my-flash-drive dept.

canopic jug writes:

Steven Saus has written a blog post about why you should never rely on social media. In his latest post on the topic he points out that:

[...] If you don’t personally own your website and data, you don’t have a website or data. Quite simply, you cannot rely on someone else for you to have a website, platform, or social media presence.

[...] I now know, in my gut, how fragile my access to the services Google, Facebook, and Twitter supply are.

Because – and I cannot stress this enough – my ban from G+ was due to something I supposedly posted to G+ when I was unable to post to G+. Hell, I still don’t know what got me in trouble in the first place.

Regardless, my trust is broken, and my role as product has been made painfully clear.

G+ is used as the example, but the same principles apply to the other social control media.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DBCubix on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:24PM (3 children)

    by DBCubix (553) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:24PM (#673464)
    Let's change the author's argument slightly...

    If you don’t personally own your electricity generation, you don’t have electricity. Quite simply, you cannot rely on someone else for you to have electricity and other utilities.

    While I understand where the author is coming from, at some point we must rely on others for goods and services.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by shortscreen on Sunday April 29 2018, @08:00PM (1 child)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Sunday April 29 2018, @08:00PM (#673470) Journal

    Relying on other people is the road to ruin. Buy a generator.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Sunday April 29 2018, @09:26PM

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 29 2018, @09:26PM (#673488) Journal

      Buy a generator.

      Excellent point! And refine your own fuel. From the oil well on your fully local and organic family farm that you operate full time. (Or from ethanol produced from your organic corn. Burn the leaves, stalks and roots to power the still.)

      Maybe shoot anyone who approaches lest you rely on them.

      Or acknowledge that perhaps the "never rely on someone else" advice misses the whole supposed point of TFA, despite its being advice given in TFA...

  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Sunday April 29 2018, @09:06PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Sunday April 29 2018, @09:06PM (#673482) Journal

    If you don’t personally own your electricity generation, you don’t have electricity. Quite simply, you cannot rely on someone else for you to have electricity and other utilities.

    I have a solar plant adequate to my needs. Not really seeing your argument in terms of "don't have."

    In the US, you can arrange to be fairly independent, as long as you can pay your taxes and are willing to specifically work towards your independence. Plenty of inexpensive room out here in the flat areas. I paid less for my home and property than most people pay for a car. Everything else has gone into making it what I (we, my SO partnered in this) want it to be and at least somewhat sustainable in the face of loss of utilities.