Luring in younger bulb growers
Rodger Whitlock (Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:04:33 PDT)

On 17 Oct 2013, at 17:38, Jane McGary wrote:

That makes two of us.

My resistance is purely intellectual. As has been said by others before, on the
internet if something worthwhile is free, that's because *you* are the product
and the real customers are advertisers.

Facebook has not just a cavalier attitude towards privacy, but an outright
malignant one. Zuckerman isn't an altruist; he's a businessman and a fairly
ruthless one at that. Facebook is not an innocent operation over which one
daintily exclaims "oh isn't that nice!" while sipping chamomile tea.

There is no reason to put anything on Facebook; whenever I need to look up some
matter-bulbous, Google often presents me with a PBS Wiki link as the first in
the list of hits. There is absolutely no reason to balkanize our material by
splitting it between two sites.

Unless we as a group feel compelled to hold the hands of those too lazy or
ignorant to use Google, the PBS Wiki remains a solution to the problem of
disseminating knowledge-bulbous in a nearly optimum manner. Perhaps I should
add that the PBS mailing list is (imo) for enthusiasts with some experience,
not raw newbies who don't know which end of a bulb goes on the bottom.

Note that my objections to Facebook don't even touch on the issue of them
claiming that material posted there is theirs free to use in any other manner.

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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate