Facebook Frolics 4
Steven Johnson of Temple University thinks the end is nearing faster than you think:
Follow the link for his reasons.
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Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.
I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.
Finally, this is website is a hobby. It's a hobby in which I am deeply invested, about which I care deeply, and which has enabled me to learn a lot about computers and computing, but it is still ultimately an avocation, not a vocation; it is certainly not a money-making enterprise (unless you click the "Donate" button--go ahead, you can be the first!).
I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.
May 22, 2012 at 11:31 am
This quote was amusing: “In addition, many people already find Facebook too complicated.” I found it uncomplicates when you start unfriending people.
May 22, 2012 at 3:03 pm
What is complicated is Zuckerberg’s continual hide-and-seek with the privacy settings.
I find the reaction to the IPO most gratifying.
May 22, 2012 at 4:36 pm
So do I. The culture of lickspittle has come a bit undone for it. Many believe he really won’t get the lame to see and the blind to talk, or even if he does, it’s no matter. It’s also personally satisfying knowing all my acquaintances in the real world now basically either detest or dislike Facebook, believing the value of having hundreds of cyberspace ‘friends’ is zero. They seem to know that stories to the contrary, if they posted they had cancer and had two months to live the cyberspace friends list would ignore it because, like — it’s not political picture spam, animal picture spam, or shared from a famous source.
May 22, 2012 at 7:57 pm
“The culture of lickspittle.” I like that.
I cannot be completely hostile to Facebook.
Thanks to it, I re-met my first girlfriend from college, who is now my current and likely last girlfriend, but, aside from that personal benefit, I get nothing from it.
If someone actually wants to contact me, he or she knows where to find me.