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