just told my facebook friends that I'm leaving

I've never created an account for me on Facebook, mostly because I tend to step back if something is suddenly created and begins to be popular worldwide. It's some sort of self protection which I have.

Well, I did created an account one year ago, but I didn't like it since the first days, and I decided to forget about it.

My personal blog has, along with other pages, one containing possible ways to contact me, the most effective one being my email address.

Best regards, ADFENO.
Have a nice day.

On another forum, I noticed someone mentioning that they use Facebook exclusively for contacting people they're working with, and if they don't use Facebook, too bad.

That's a really shitty attitude. I wonder how common it is. The guy in question seemed to think that there was no other way; somehow, e-mail, instant messaging, IRC, phone calls, texting, and VoIP were all completely useless in this guy's opinion. Is Facebook convincing people that they need it when they don't?

One of my friends wrote something like "if only it were so easy to escape surveillance". I replied:

Yeah (friend); rejecting intrusive initiatives, unfortunately, is no longer as easy as leaving facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Intel is beginning to sell hardware with technologies that they market as vPro. With it, they (or anyone they cooperate with) could access our machines remotely, potentially without our permission.

Other companies --Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD-- are working to implement a system to remotely approve/disapprove many actions that we might take with a computer. This has censorship potential:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

Our computers will be an open book to these companies or anyone they cooperate with. Even if we abandon proprietary software (facebook, Windows, MacOS, etc) for publicly audited alternatives (self-hosted Diaspora, Trisquel).

If we don't make educated decisions about the hardware and software that we buy and use, the bad stuff will become our new infrastructure. It will cost us autonomy for however long it takes to recover some of it.

I'll just leave this here (not spam, do click the link on that page)

http://www.lovely-faces.com/

Regarding: joindiaspora.com

Any thoughts on this?

Comment #26. (david morley)

@Sean Tilley. The entire pod is hosted on Amazon so how can it be true that Amazon can not access any of the data, the images are on S3 but the pod is on AWS via Heroku sub lease. As the host and owner of the servers you are using they do have that right do they not?

Comment #27. (Sean Tilley)

@David: I was under no impression that Heroku was leasing from Amazon AWS, I was under the impression that JoinDiaspora was just hosted on Heroku itself. Evidently, I was mistaken, and for that I am sorry.

Comment #28. (p1x3l f15h)

Wait.. So the database IS on AMAZON SERVERS???

Comment #29. (Sean Tilley)

Damn it...

This comes as something of a nasty shock. I had no idea. :/

http://pastebin.com/BfNK2HRa
(towards the bottom of the pasted text)

by the way, the website:

http://www.lovely-faces.com

is not a "fake dating site/facebook account cracker." The page only contains a link to the following page:

http://www.face-to-facebook.net

Describing "The Hacking Monopolism Trilogy" a set of three hactivist projects"/"art installations."

The site in question (lovely-faces.com) was used for the third part of the trilogy: "Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software, and then, posting them on a custom-made dating website, sorted by their facial expressions characteristics."

I encourage you to read about the projects! :)

P.S. The assessment on www.mywot.com is interesting and may raise questions about webs of trust, or at least this one, since one of their major customers (the only one listed in the "business" tab of their website) is facebook:
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Facebook – Providing extra level of security

Using Facebook is part of many web users’ daily life online. Links posted on Facebook often become popular, even viral.

To provide its users with an extra layer of security against harmful links, Facebook uses WOT’s crowdsourced reputation data to alert users when they navigate to exterior websites that have poor reputations.
________________________________________________________

We are excited about our partnership with Web of Trust -- They share similar goals and approaches in giving users better control of their online experience.
Jake Brill, Manager Site Integrity, Facebook

https://www.mywot.com/en/business

Edit: Typo. Also, thank you for recommending lovely-faces.com Lembas.

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I also quit Facebook last week. No grand goodbyes, just deleted the account. Feels great. Not missing it to be honest. Email is all the communication I really need. IRC/XMPP for IM, too.
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