On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Max Shinn wrote: >>> You're close minded and, please, stop. >> >> Only closed to invasive and intrusive things, not all. >> >> Toss YOUR prejudices and incorrect presumptions. > > Objectively speaking, it is very difficult to get information in a > timely manner from Twitter without a Twitter account. There is one > account on Twitter I "follow" via RSS, however they are dropping support > for this in a few months. I have many reasons for not getting a Twitter > account; most of them personal reasons that are irrelevant to this > discussion. However, it is difficult to call a company that refuses to > even support RSS/Atom feeds "open". > > Speaking to Facebook, of which I am also not a member for personal > reasons, it bothers me when organizations call their Facebook pages > their "websites". In most cases, I cannot access additional information > about these without being a member of Facebook. I have a hard time > understanding how one would call this "open". Good points, Max. It is a never-ending struggle with these information gathering companies. The other day I saw someone post "If you are concerned about privacy on Facebook, don't post anything private on Facebook," or something like that. But I don't think they understand how data mining works and how much about us can be divined from seemingly irrelevant things. I'm on Facebook anyway. Mike