Why it is so painful to cancel an account in a Social Media-This time Hi5
I still wonder why social media are behaving like leeches.
They are hell bent on increasing their share in the open but dirty market
1. They start by offering you a free account.
That is the final bait.
In this consumerist world who will offer a free lunch?
2. Then they get every bit of your personnel data which even (probably) government agencies are not interested in.
The governments want to know you are security risk and or a xenophobic.
If you are an average criminal, they are not worried about.
It is a civil matter.
They only want big fish.
In this country of ours, some government agencies actually promote average tricksters and they take them into their fold, get the dirty work done and dispose them unceremoniously like a pulp when it is a liability (we have a police ex-chief and a Sanganayaka involved in plundering archaeological artefacts) to the beholders.
Guys / Girls include those who steal our ballot paper for election rigging.
Some of them steal even the vote of old people in "Incarcerated Homes''
They (the criminals) are a wanted commodity come elections.
3. These social media know that the governments steal their data whenever and wherever possible.
Earlier it was done at the airport.
Now they scan you in your kitchen doing daily chores.
They do not have to be on the beat but remain in air conditioned cubicles.
What a luxury?
4. This government paranoia for no reason to remain in absolute power has now infiltrated the social media.
They fear a bubble like in the credit crunch.
They fear the credit crisis.
Their profit margin that come free due to technology and that infiltrates into every nook and corner (luckily we have only 10% Internet penetration in spite of the massive drive) one does not have to sweat for one's tasks.
These guys also live in air-conditioned living rooms and sit in front of the computer and do not have to travel like the ordinary guys and girls who toil, every day of the week.
They have cushy IT jobs.
The network of computers and various search engines do the talk.
They talk tall!
5. Invariable they become the worst pests of this century and of any country
So they fear when a old guy like me want to opt out of their site for an ornamental coffin for the eternal peace six feet under.
They make de-registration, the most difficult job on this planet.
Why?
I do not know.
As a doctor, I can say it is an early sign of serious pathological entity not yet defined by the medical fraternity.
I coin the word digital Mafia that metamorphoses to Digital Morphea
Getting out of Hi5 was as difficult as with FaceBook.
The details are hidden in the Full Site out of reach of the folks.
You have to contact them by email and tag with another entity and a token obtained for one to see the Full Site.
Even after getting there they will ask you various (FUD, Fear Uncertainty, and Doubt) silly questions.
Now they try to keep the data in their server and promote a reactivation scheme.
I don't think I can reactivate it from my coffin unless, I take a Tablet with Wireless connection to my final resting (rite's) site, the TOMB.
Rest in Piece Social Media.
I have raised this many moons ago.
What happen to my emails when I am DEAD and Disposed?
What happen to it when I am disposed or dispossessed?
Have I got to declare a Dying Dispossession?
In spite the technology they are unable to device a full proof method.
That is the case in point.
I tell old people please do not use Internet.
Visit your friends in person and enjoy a cup of Tea/Coffee or a pint of Larger.
That is more user friendly than social media.
Real people (not digital) need personnel touch.
I now practice digital zeroing when I am on holidays.
I really enjoy my privacy and holiday but enjoy every bit of flavor of food and drinks, I used to enjoy as a young guy (but going up in price for an average citizen).
I practice bit of Moment Meditation, too.
Life is to live.
Not to sit in front of an idiot box.
Creativity comes naturally, then.
See you next time.
I am trying to devise a method to opt out not log out.
Hope, I will have a Brain Wave when on digital holiday.
