Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says he is "not a 24-hour technology person" and explained why he shut down his Facebook account. Saying he was not big on text messaging, he added: "All these tools of technology let us waste our time if we're not careful." He was speaking to government officials and information technology executives, touching on subjects ranging from social networking to cellphones used to test for diseases.
Asked whether he ever gets "unplugged" from email, computers and cellphone, he laughed and said he reads a lot "and sometimes not on a screen". He said he once had a Facebook page but every day "10,000 people tried to be my friend". He spent a lot of time trying to decide "Do I know them? Don't I know them?" Ultimately, he said, "I had to give it up."
Credits: New York Times
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