This is for information Junkies

The study of some ???? Twitter users, conducted in early and mid-April, found that nearly 100% respondents agreed with the statements “I value getting information in a timely manner,” and “I find it exciting to learn new things from people,” while about 80% “like to be connected to lots of people.”

Privacy Junkies

Those concerned about Internet privacy often cite a number of privacy risks — events that can compromise privacy — which may be encountered through Internet use. These methods of compromise can range from the gathering of statistics on users, to more malicious acts such as the spreading of spyware and various forms of bug exploitation.

Privacy measures are provided on several social networking sites to try to provide their users with protection for their personal information. It is the user’s prerogative to apply build-in privacy settings when providing personal information on the internet.

Revelations

There is a militant overtone to technology and media evangelists that seems to me to border on hostility and be completely unnecessary. Seriously: why on EARTH would it bother you that I don’t have or want a cell phone?

To answer your question: the reason I try to avoid Facebook and the like is that I find all of these things tremendously time consuming. My time is valuable, so I am slow to get involved in yet another new thing that takes more of it — whether it’s Twitter or joining a bowling team. And if you have a life, you are doing the same.

Create Minds Design!

More frustrating is the amount of energy from natural resources that is wasted during our electronic lives!

UNESCO

Here comes the shitty part: how to explain in refined words (or should I say redefined) my motivation? I can fully agree with the fundamental line in UNESCO’s Constitution .. which is obviously nice puppetry, uh I mean poetry:

The Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO declares that ‘since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed’.

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. Unforseen achievements could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. Make peace not war.

What did you ?

Amsterdam
November 23nd, 2009:11:12:13

ps. Twitter will ruin  your ability to form or understand coherent sentences.