Posted By kage / 18th August 2011
We never learn.
Case in point, arguing about politics on Facebook. Granted it’s not a forum given to erudite and thought provoking discussion. “omg you dress is so awesome” and “I totally peed my pants today! LOL!” generally being the deepest and most meaningful of Facebook posts. Politics it seems, brings out the worst in us and political posts should be avoided.
Now if only I’d listen to my own advice. See, I have a problem. I love to start political fights on Facebook as most of my friends are staunch republicans and I am just a little left of Trotsky…so you can see where there might be some issues. Of course I create the issues and start the fights so there’s that.
I’ve vowed to stop this heinous practice and very occasionally I do. I’ll post the usual gibberish mostly about how I’ve peed my pants. Because it happens so often. But then I can’t help myself. I see something somewhere, most probably the hippie commie sites that I read, and feel compelled to share it. I can’t stop.
So I won’t.
Posted By kage / 6th May 2010
Recently Facebook has come under fire, and rightly so, for sucking in a major way. They’ve changed pretty much everything so that now everytime you visit Facebook, you owe them $321.93, a monthly diet coke stock and naked pictures of your wife.
Kidding. No naked pictures. Unless you really want to get in good with them.
On top of all the mass suckage comes news today that they’ve screwed up again and started secretly adding apps to your profile. No biggie you say.
Think again Einstein.
Now according to an article on PC World, when you visit certain sites, apps get installed to your profile. You don’t have to have a Facebook window open, be logged in, think about Facebook or really even have a Facebook account. This is such suckage that if you don’t have a Facebook account, and you visit these sites, if you ever do get a Facebook account, this stuff will automatically be added to your profile, emails will be sent from your account stressing your love forDonny Osmond (not Marie) and that you like to wear womens clothing. Which really isn’t so bad, but TO CHURCH.
You can’t get away from this stuff either. You can delete the apps but next time you visit the site, BANG. Instant appification of your profile. Don’t like it? Okay, go ahead and delete it. It’s gone. Right? No. Not really. Facebook just likes to punk you, flip you off and dare you to do something about it all while calling you a pussy.
What can you do? Nothing really. Like one of the George Bushes said about rape, if it’s inevitable you might as well sit back and enjoy it. Tell Facebook what a stud you think it is, how manly and big it is and how it really, really satifisfies you. Then if you feel like it, you can kick it in the balls. Won’t do much but hey, you’ll probably feel better.
Facebook contacted PC World and said, basically, “our bad dude. Like we’re really, really totally sorry. Total bummer dude.” They’ve made it so that it won’t happen again. ”Dude, like we’ve totally made it so like it won’t happen again and shit. Really sorry yo.”
You’ll still have to manually remove any crap that’s there. I’m sure, totally sure that Facebook, really, really didn’t count on that. Really. They said so.
Posted By KJ / 24th March 2010
I’ve decided that facebook kind if sucks. I mean it sucks in a way that people that I know on facebook apparently can’t research anything for themselves and totally believe any garbage that gets posted anywhere. Case in point ? The recent insurance fiasco.
There were posts that alleged that the health insurance bill was, more or less, birthed from the very loins of Satan. One of the biggest threads linked to a video in YouTube. The account owner was Jesus-Christ-is-the-best-ever or something like that. Needless to say the video alleged that the bill would pretty much allow the government in your pants and there wasn’t a damn thing you could do. It was all lies and was in fact, addressed by a newspaper in that bastion of left wing communism, Florida.
It’s this kind of all the time bullshit that sours me on facebook.
Think I’ll spend my time more productively somewhere else.
