I’ve Tumbled

[beowabbit]

Not that I need another social-networking site, but I’ve just joined Tumblr. Same username as here. If you’re on there and I should follow you, no promises, but let me know.

(Ceterum autem censeo G+ esse delendam.)

Comments

[beowabbit]

Oh, and some commentary from Jamie Zawinski. The comment thread is informative, especially aestetix’ comment of 20 Oct 2011 at 1:51 am.

From Jamie’s reply to a commenter:

"If you don't like it, don't use it" is the coward's way out of an argument, and it's dishonest. You're allowed to have an opinion of whether a product suits your needs that is more subtle than "buy / don't buy", and people who try to reduce all criticism to that binary proposition are either being deliberately dense to push their agenda, or are... well, being unintentionally dense, I guess.

Especially when that product is being pushed by an 800 pound gorilla like Google.

"If you don't like how every extant phone company behaves, then don't buy a cell phone" might have seemed a reasonable response from someone like you back in the 80s. Today it would sound pretty ridiculous.

The thing about cell phones in the 80s really captures what I find so disturbing here. (Particularly since Google actually does have its fingers in people’s cell phones, mine included.)