49 Alternatives To Facebook- Unseen.is & Seen.is are Secure Social Sites in Iceland. WE LOVE THEM BOTH! #Leavingfacebook #byebyefb

Day After Election Day - Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - #Leavingfacebook #byebyefb

   A BIG Congratulations to everyone helping us to find New Alternative Social Network and Group Web Sites that are not commercialized and intrusive (i.g. facebook, google+, others).

We're finding LOTS OF ALTERNATIVES where we can feel safe, be more productive and focussed on what really matters to us;  and not be burdened or distracted by all the charming stuff the for profit & control concerns online want us to be, for their benefit, not ours.

We started with a list of 49 Alternatives to Facebook and established our first "primary' anchor site on LifeKnot.com - as our first stop to freedom & privacy our way.

 Then as time passed, we came across the most awesome, ad free, secure site called Unseen.is - located in Iceland. 

   Unseen.is is made for people and groups who wish to connect in a non-intrusive, non-commercial environment with secure email and voice, text, video chat and file

sharing and group building. 

  Unseen has apps, and currently requires most browsers

to be near up to date, and there are some Tor issues (may

have to do with common use of Firefox 27.0+ versions) but it works well, once you have it together.

And take heart, our techs have been working with their techs to hammer out making sure 'technology' on the cutting edge, does not cause us all to drop off or stop using Unseen.

   So, the future looks bright if they listen to us, otherwise we'll go find other secure spots that don't change every 90 days.... like the ones we're all trying to escape from, in the first place. 

           Many of us are tired of having to update every browser, every operating

           system, patches, fixes and new hardware to keep up with basic social 

           network and file sharing sites in non-commercialized, ad free environments.

          Environments that we control, not vice versa.

So we can spend more time using existing technology than we do making burdensome changes and learning or down time that stops our flows and ability to stay connected, on a realiable, consistent basis.   

We and our peers are there on Unseen.is (and many folks on the same paths as we are from around the globe and San Francisco already), in addition to LifeKnot.com

UNSEEN.IS's MORE PUBLIC TWIN SISTER SITE:   SEEN.IS

Seen.is is Unseen's Sister site that is made for more private, but outwardly public presence and social networking online, with ability to set up groups, forums, chat areas and even Classified ads in a no-ads or personal data collecting environment.

      Both are ideal for anyone who wants to be free of burdens, privacy intrusions and

data collection activities on for profit web sites that even have government defense

contracts and resell data to foreign security forces and intelligence and job screening concerns around the world. 

GET YOUR SELF & YOUR FACEBOOK PEERS FREE ON SEEN.IS AND UNSEEN.IS

San Francisco PG & E Truck Collides with Car on 16th Street-Mission District. No Injuries. Cell Phone Driving?

Tuesday Oct 7, 2014 - 11AM PST - Mission District - San Francisco, CA
 

About an hour ago, (10am this beautiful Tuesday morning) we were standing out front of El Cafetazo having a smoke.  

We noticed a white Pacific Gas & Electric Van parked in the No Parking-Construction space at corner of 16th Street & Rondel Place (between Valenica & Mission, directly across from Mission Bank).     

Not sure if he was working or picking up a burrito at Pancho Villas (many city workers park in the Red Fire Zone and block the alley to 'run in' and pick up food at Pancho Villas because there is NO parking often due to Valet Parkers for upscale restaurants who STEAL MANY SPACES for hours at a time, rotating client vehicles which means no locals can park near local mom & pop's -safely- to pick up food - as we all could a couple years ago, before this community destroying gentrification scheme went into effect) or not, but he was parked in a space marked No Parking for Construction Zone, in the first place.

This PG&E Van started to pull out, a bit sharp & fast, of where it was parked. 

We could not see if he was on his cell phone or not.   The Security Officer at the Mission Bank across the street may have seen as he is on the look out for unsafe drivers in this zone, as we are.

At that moment, we saw a small red car coming down 16th in the same direction, travelling at a normal rate of speed.  

Then we heard the crash and crunch, as the van tried to move out into the lane, as the other car was already in motion, approaching.   

We hate that area because there are tons of close calls every day, as uber, lyft, big fast trucks from dolores park construction crews (driving too fast, chatting on cell phones) converging fast. 

All driving bad, blocking traffic and it outrages drivers that causes them to break more laws & take more chances out of frustration.  

This is what unplanned, short sided gentrification and density increases gives your community. Chaos.

 

So, we went over and took pictures. 

 The P G & E Driver was stressed, trying to get others to agree with him that he had 'the right of way'... 

Which he may or may not have, but the way we saw it... 

Unless he was able to see the other car at a dead stop,  he should never have tried to 'beat the car out' if he even saw it at all.  

Since he said he 'had the right of way' it looks like he saw the car, moving down the streets and 'took' his right of way, by gunning up the engines and tried to cut off the approaching car.

 

The woman's car, the red one, was in a perfectly straight line, on the proper side of the double yellow, yet his van angle is VERY SHARP and a bit of a distance from where he started out from. 

 So, it looks like he did not see or did not care about the approaching car.

Here are the pictures..  Looks like she (red car) was in motion -before- the van pulled away from the curb... likely she was in a 'blind spot' or perhaps one or both drivers were on their cell phone, ipod of other Distracting & Deadly Device -right before- or -during- the impact.

Have a safe day!

Anonymous Poster on SFAwareness Group