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On 6 June 2012 15:50, Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote: Oh come now, don't be silly. You can't readily talk to dozens of different people at once, all over the world, free of charge, including possibly people who are deaf or who can read and write a common language but not speak it, using a single phone call. And even if you could, you could not realistically remain present in said conference-call, occasionally interacting with it, while you went ahead with other tasks at the same time. This is like the Luddite friends of mine who refuse to use social networks or email and complain that I could just phone them when I want to invite them to an event. I commonly invite a couple of hundred people at once to events. I cannot do that by phoning them all; even emailing them all is a major pain. This is the sort of thing social networks excel at. You don't have to use them; feel free not to. But my friend who refuse to are, by and large, friends who I do not invite to things. They don't have to use the socnets, but equally, I do not have to waste hours of my time and lots of money individually contacting those people who refuse to use nasty modern tools. I could also write letters to those who can't or won't use nasty modern telephones. I could personally visit those who won't use the post. I could arrange the event somewhere with car parking for those who will not use public transport; I could be sure to arrange it in walking distance for those who will not use wheeled vehicles. Yes, I know of people who refuse all these things. But I am not going to do it. *They* expect *me* to go to special lengths because of *their* idiosyncratic, non-conformist preferences and neophobia. Well, no. There is no single point at which you can draw a line and say, up to this point is reasonable, but beyond it is unreasonable. Socnets are just a tool - a free and easy one. Sure, don't use them if you don't want, but in doing so you must accept that you are going to miss out on lots of stuff. That's fine - it's your choice. But it is not fair or acceptable to ask others to go out of their way or to endure inconvenience to satisfy your whimsical preferences. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884