On my Facebook page (which I rarely access; less than once every 2 weeks) I have zero friends, by my policy. I first heard about 'friending' on FB nearly 10 years ago. I felt then, and I continue to feel, that this is far too 'binary' for me: If I started classifying people as 'friends', I'd have to decide where to draw the line. And that, I didn't want to do. Therefore, any requests to 'friend' me, I do not activate, and I explain to the people involved why I won't. Everybody seems to understand, and I've been told many people have a similar opinion of that. Jim Bell ________________________________ From: Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi> To: Jim Bell <jamesdbell8@yahoo.com> Cc: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@riseup.net>; "barlow@eff.org" <barlow@eff.org>; "cypherpunks@cpunks.org" <cypherpunks@cpunks.org>; "gnu@toad.com" <gnu@toad.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 6:34 PM Subject: Re: Jim Bell comes to Cypherpunks? On 2014-01-01, Jim Bell wrote: Jim, why is it that you aren't my FB-friend already? My friends would just love/hate you. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - decoy@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3255353, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2