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Still hating on Facebook, but some props to be given

lilianev — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:35:28 +0000

I’m still hating on Facebook, and I probably always will. I just love to hate on them. Anyways, Facebook CEO wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post that is a worthwhile read:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/23/AR2010052303828.html

So the props to be given…
1) He acknowledges they missed the mark. Recognizing they did something that wholly sucked and publicly taking responsibility for it — props.
2) They are going to provide a way to turn off all third party services. Enough said. MAD props.
3) They want to [continue] dialogue. Now I know that dialogue (in my opinion) is one of those buzz words that people throw around to give the impression they care about other people’s thoughts and feelings. But, I am an idealistic optimist at heart, and I think dialogue is constructive. I don’t know if I necessarily agree with the “continue” dialogue, but I might be too much of a hater and be unaware of the dialogue they have previously started and sustained. Anyways, props.

Results are in, and I’m a fogie

lilianev — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:11:01 +0000

“Only Old Fogies Hate the New Facebook, Research Suggests“, from Wired.com

I always thought that graduating from college essentially equals “old.”

Apparently, finishing grad school equals “fogie.”

Not really. At least the article doesn’t say that. But I am DEFINITELY not 35 (see above article), roughly a decade younger (more or less than a decade is left to guesswork), and I have a superior hate for the new “like” feature, AND I’d rather be a fogie than “like” a whole bunch of random shit.

As I am boycotting Arizona and all things Arizona-related, I am also boycotting Facebook’s coup d’éta to overtake the entire Internet.

F both of them.

If you didn’t believe me, maybe now…

lilianev — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:36:23 +0000

If you didn’t believe me when I said that Facebook sucks your life away, maybe now you will.

Wired.com reports that Facebook CEO apparently “doesn’t believe in privacy” in this article:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/report-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-doesnt-believe-in-privacy/

I really enjoyed the article; particularly the reflections on Facebook’s recent attempt to take over the web with the new “Like” button.

Others notice that Facebook sucks your life away

lilianev — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:26:13 +0000

I deactivated and deleted my Facebook account over 2 years ago. Many reasons contributed to the decision, but the main reason is that Facebook sucks your face-to-face, real, truly social, not-in-front-of-a-computer life down the cyberspace drain.

Apparently others are starting to notice what a waste of life Facebook can be. NYT has an article that talks about how lots of teens are starting to Defriend Facebook.

Check it out:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/technology/internet/21facebook.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=technology

More Bing Buzz…

lilianev — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:52:31 +0000

More buzz about the new search engine Bing today. NYT Technology section says that Bing brings credibility to Microsoft. Interesting article. See if you can find the word “Googley” in the article. That really cracked me up. :o)

It’s days like today when I read things like Facebook messages to become public by default makes me all the more confident that it was the right thing when my husband and I deleted our Facebook accounts over a year ago. People ask ‘why would you do that?’ and say ‘you should get back on Facebook’ but really…I’m just so thankful that I’m not on there anymore. And when I read article like that, it reminds me that we did the right thing.