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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:24:35 -0300
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:

> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>
>> D <nospam@example.net> writes:
>>
>>> I also believe that second hand exposure is less than first hand
>>> exposure. A small comfort as well.
>>
>> A lot better.  These ``friends'' are not people who understand what
>> we're talking about here.  If you start explaining why they shouldn't
>> put your picture there and so on, it will really be a lot of work.  And
>> you might end up losing these friends because, you know, people have
>> little tolerance for politics.
>>
>> People wanna have fun.  Eat, drink, play video games, watch TV, ... They
>> get fed up with political stuff---it's hard to understand and it all
>> seems to boil down to same thing over and over again.
>>
>> But, yeah, we're all probably better off away from these ``friends''.
>> We just need to face our loneliness, which is healhty.
>
> Many are the "friends" I have left behind because they could not be bothered to
> contact me through phone or email. Since I am not on FB, and since their only
> way of interacting is through FB and whatsapp, they simply faded out of my life,
> and to be honest, weren't much friends to begin with.

Same here!  I ``lost'' many.

> The ones who remain, I call real friends, because they do bother to shoot me an
> sms or an email from time to time, and likewise, I do give them a call.

Same here and this does make me happy.  So it turns out that we've sort
of optimized life a bit and increased the security level.  We don't need
to waste time with non-friends and found some real ones.  That's a hack. :)

> So I find this to be a hueg benefit! I am also lucky because I run my
> own company, so my business partners know that if they want to reach
> me, they have 2 options, email or phone, and all of them accept that.

Nice to hear you run your own business.

> Last, but not least, let us not forget that friends is not a static
> concept, there are always plenty of ways to meet new friends in life
> if one feels the need and has the motivation. =)

Exactly.