Justification de domicile

It seems that I have had to copy every single electricity bill I have received from the EDF company in order to prove that I reside at the address where I have lived now for over 3 years to various instances of government, to companies, employers, and other suspicious friends. It is actually a miracle that my name appears on the bill since the electricity is in my wife's name, and otherwise I would not have a single document that is generally accepted as a "justification de domicile". (I will spare you the workaround that one needs to apply if this is the case.) I guess we should be thankful that all these instances do not own a central database with information on our whereabouts and that they do not base themselves on citizenship for every single service that they provide but I can't help but think that there should be an easier way of handling my administration. I wouldn't mind if some information was exchanged between selected agencies, including for instance all municipal services. No, over and over again millions of people need to store their bill, and occassionally go make a single copy of the little form provided by a company of dubious repute to hand it to a town's clerk who files it in our dossier and puts a check mark next to our name. This annoying feature of everyday modern life is shared amongst many great nations. I challenge inventive administrators and tired citizens to come up with an equally (i.e. mildly) secure and less annoying alternative.

F-book

My Facebook account is history. The non-stop flux of friend requests from members of various social groups to which I did or did not belong at various points in time was a clear sign of the randomness that the internet effortlessly generates. Facebook did not allow sufficient fine tuning to organize the whole into a reasonable format, nor did it allow flexibility in choosing to receive one message in three say from enthusiastic babblers. My old friends also regularly defended ridiculous political positions either explicitly, by referring to their favorite political party or by repeating party slogans, or implicitly by describing in detail a very limited aspect of society, or their own environment. Moreover, reading random discussions that are made up of two word phrases is annoying. The fantastic finds by good friends or acquaintances of interesting videos and links did not make up for the constant influx of noise generated by people who believe that internet makes the earth flat. Too much time is wasted in wading through crappy posts to find a gem. Self-censorship seems contradictory with contemporary internet usage. Moreover, taking into account all sensitivities of every single acquaintance that I made over a lifetime too often lead to silence. Blog posts have the clear advantage of having as a default setting that they are not randomly sent to people who may be involved in more interesting activities.