{"id":3206,"date":"2011-09-28T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2011-09-28T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T20:00:38","slug":"time-for-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/09\/28\/time-for-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for a break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Flickr photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/31110324@N03\/6193100410\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6165\/6193100410_ff39d81ea8.jpg\" alt=\"time for a break\" width=\"203\" height=\"154\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I love social networks.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re how I follow the news, get different perspectives, stay in touch with friends &#8212; and make new ones.   When people complain that online connections are just a poor substitute for &#8220;real life&#8221;, I just shake my head and tell them they&#8217;re doing it wrong.  And as I&#8217;ve argued passionately in <a href=\"http:\/\/p2pt0.wetpaint.com\/page\/Cognitive+evolution+and+revolution+at+%23polc09\">Cognitive evolution and revolution<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=1113\">The future of civil liberties<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=1311\">A grassroots social network activist&#8217;s perspective<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=3103\">Freedom not fear<\/a>, combining social network and real world activism is a great opportunity to regain our rights online and off.<\/p>\n<p>But there are downsides as well.  Facebook constantly changing its interface and finding new ways to violate my privacy, the arrogance and elitism of the guys running Google+ and their evil naming policy (along the incessant circling over the last few days), Diaspora*&#8217;s inability to edit posts or block obnoxious people \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and the time I spend checking FB, G+, D*, Twitter, Quora, Dreamwidth, tribe.net, free-association and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s time for a break from social networks.<\/p>\n<p>See you in a week or two!<\/p>\n<p>jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love social networks. They&#8217;re how I follow the news, get different perspectives, stay in touch with friends &#8212; and make new ones. When people complain that online connections are just a poor substitute for &#8220;real life&#8221;, I just shake my head and tell them they&#8217;re doing it wrong. And as I&#8217;ve argued passionately in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-social-computing","category-tales-from-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}