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Author: BevAnderson91
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Thank you. :-)
However, while I'm a blogger for another interest and I'm on several genealogy
email lists [not message boards because mostly they're pretty cumbersome; I only get
these because the message boards are gatewayed into the email list], I haven't worked
my way up to Facebook. After fifty years of genealogy research, my objectives in my
research are very specific because I have ancestors from seven different countries.
I admit, the whole invasion of privacy thing on Facebook puts me off. I don't wish to
be targeted by spam advertising, and part of the privacy agreement one must agree to
includes granting permission to be tracked for targeted advertising (yes, I took the time
to read the proposed agreement). The last Facebook version that came out seems like
it's going to be worse than previous versions, according to the last article I read
just yesterday.
Facebook will have to be a lot more user-friendly and ad-free and cookies-tracking-free
before I consider joining.
I'm considering giving up TV altogether since there is now at least 18 minutes of
advertising for each "one hour" TV show. Advertising is the reason I refuse to
get cable; I don't see the logic in paying to get ads I can get for free with rabbit
ears on a couple of analog channels that are available out in the dingtoolies. If I pay
for TV, it has to be ad-free. I only watch six or fewer TV shows per week anyway, so
paying for ad-filled shows would be a waste of money.
At this point in my genealogy research, the one thing that would help is if the US (on a
federal and state and county level) would put images of documents online for free (minus
stupid ads!) like a couple of countries where I do the most research now (paid for by the
taxpayers of those countries). Those countries have me spoiled because I get to see
and/or download images of actual documents, and I love working from good copies of
original documents.
I appreciate the consideration of knowing the Facebook page is there if I change my mind.
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