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 To: Jim Bell Cc: cypherpunks ; "barlow@eff.org" ; "cypherpunks@cpunks.org" ; "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 - [1]decoy@iki.fi, [2]http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-40-3255353, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2 References 1. mailto:decoy@iki.fi 2. http://decoy.iki.fi/front