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Re:Educated Germans avoid social media by gcb0 on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:15AM (#10775980)
the non naive way to look at this is that you and your friends gave up a little freedom (using open, standard and interoperative ways to communicate) for a little convenience (proprietary controlled communication medium)
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Re:Educated Germans avoid social media by rimantas on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:48AM (#10776069)
How do they give up that freedom? Did they sign some agreement with FB never ever use any other forms of communication / events coordination? No, they did not. Can we just cut this kind of crap? Facebook or any other social sites did not take away any freedoms from anyone.
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Re:Educated Germans avoid social media by wolfgke on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @06:04AM (#10777002)
> Facebook or any other social sites did not take away any freedoms from anyone.

The freedom from data being stored about the respective persons?

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