It’s like when you were a kid; and no amount of moving the rabbit ears or fiddling with the tin foil would give you anything but a grey-white blizzard, what did you do? Probably turned the damned thing off and did something else. That’s what I did. I have previously voiced my disgruntlement with the machinations of Facebook; the Zuckerberg geeks simply cannot seem to leave well enough alone. First, they add four more sites to ‘like’ every time you deign to ‘like’ something. Next, they have re-envisioned the news feed to resemble a Tokyo bullet train at rush hour (careful where you park your cursor when your hands repair to the keyboard). It’s getting a mite crowded in here, to say the least. Lately, the whole shebang seems to have developed a number of weird tics including, but not limited to a complete shuffle of the newsfeed, should one venture away momentarily; such as opening another tab or checking notifications. Stuff pops up that is days old, sometimes weeks and months. Did the originator re-post this again and again? I think not. I recall that, not long ago, there was a woman on my news feed who complained bitterly about all sorts of issues with FB from privacy stuff to tampering with her news feed. At the time, I gave her the slack one affords the tragically paranoid; but I notice that she is no longer in evidence. I certainly didn’t ‘unlike’ her. Hell, I would sometimes stop and read some of her ravings. Did she reach a critical mass of disgust, or was she censored for striking too close to the cajones? Hell, who would know? When the commies locked someone up in Lubyenka Prison, they weren’t usually allowed a phone call to the media. (Now I am beginning to sound paranoid. Kinda catching, ain’t it?) Nice going, Mark: You’ve taken an altruistic idea hatched in your Harvard dorm of a free and open gathering place for us disenfranchised proletariat; and morphed it into just another money grubbing corporate peep show. Kudos, you asshole. You rich, rich asshole. (As if to lay credence to my worst fears: as I was one edit away from posting this, Mozilla went pale white, the little blue circle began to spin and the ‘not responding’ notation appeared. As I write, FB is still blotto. The obvious option would be to close the screen and start again, losing this entire text in the process. I have transcribed it to Word, lest I forget a single barb) I’m closing and rebooting and posting this from my hard drive; THEN, I’m turning this damned thing off and doing something else…
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 05:37:37 +0000
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