Just before the end of 2014 I have deactivated my Facebook.
I have not done this as I will be 70 years this week. I did not do so in order
to get rid of the dog and cat photograhs and stories. If people love pets, fine
with me, but do not force them upon me. But the way that Facebook is pushing the boundaries of privacy and wants to usurp
copyrights should be halted. Some FB account holders have made statements of
their own arguing that copyright is theirs. That kind of statements do show
displeasure, but still Facebook is being used. Besides Facebook will not be
impressed. NO, YOU MUST VOTE WITH YOUR FEET AND STEP OUT OF FACEBOOK.
Yes and then? You can look around for a similar service.
I've looked at Ello, but the site is too
arty-farty.I also checked Brewster but this
site does not realise its promise.
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Of course it is a pity to lose your contacts. I had about
300 contacts. And yes that's a shame to lose them. No longer you are informed
about relatives and friends as well as business acquaintances. In my case I
lose the necessary contacts in the World Summit Award (WSA) circuit. So I will
now have to put more effort in it in order to keep up with that circuit. Before Facebook,
you had to keep an eye on the relevant sites for information, but now you must
keep the social media. Well I still have contacts through the business
LinkedIn, where you do not encounter dogs and cats pictures and stories. And I can see and communicate through Twitter,
nice and short and pointed.
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Talking of liberation. On the occasion of my 70th birthday
I received this vase, the so-called liberation vase from 1945. The vase belongs
to the series orange vases, made on the occasion of a Dutch royal event. This
vase is dated 1945 and designed by AD Copier, master glassblower from the
Leerdam Glass Factory to celebrate the liberation of The Netherlands. The vase
is not blown with the mouth as opposed to the other orange vases, but
machine-produced. The series has a variety of vases orange coloured glass as
there was a limited glass supply in
1945.
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I wonder what I will happen without Facebook. Is it a
liberation? Will I have free time? Now I can no longer place an announcement for
a new blogposting through Facebook; only on LinkedIn and Twitter, and in some
cases by special groups on LinkedIn, as Heritage 2.0. Does this affect the
reading stats?
So my communication channels for 2015 are LinkedIn and
special groups within LinkedIn, Twitter Yjabo) and Skype, but you can also follow me on my blogs:
- Http://buziaulane.blogspot.com (in English);
-
Http://toendigitalemedianognieuwwaren.blogspot.nl (in Dutch).
And of course I also have an email address (the
same for 20 years, this year).
What am I going to do with that free time? In early February
I go to Abu Dhabi for the World Summit Award Mobile. A series of nifty apps,
including the app Touch Van Gogh of the Van Gogh Museum, will receive their
awards.
And on July 1 our company Electronic Media Reporting will
celebrate its 25 years. It was founded in The Netherlands in 1990 as one of the
first consultancies, specializing in content strategy. The anniversary will be
commemorated with the launch of an interesting archive, whch is presently under
construction.
Electronic Media Reporting wishes you a prosperous 2015!
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