Facebook or Farce-book?
Facebook’s getting a kicking this week. A couple of paragraph’s from Claire Beale’s column in the Viewspaper yesterday:
Facebook’s been the phenomenon of the year, but the speed with which advertisers have piled in is telling: if you’re going to follow fashion, do it quickly, do it cheaply and be ready to pack it all off to Oxfam before the season turns.
For my money, Facebook’s a fad. The smartest advertisers will be in and out quicker than a curry. Then it will settle down, tick over and find it hard to nail that £15bn price tag. We’ll see.
Chicken Yoghurt has jumped off the (band) wagon:
I’ve finally bitten the bullet and divorced the bowel-achingly tedious Facebook. I’ve ‘deactivated’ my relationship with her. I got sick to the gills with her constant banging on. ‘Justin, come and look at this’, she kept saying. ‘Justin, come and do this’, she kept suggesting. Join that, poke this, invite the other. Nag, nag, bloody nag.
So has Tim Ireland:
I do not need to be lumbered with this pester-tech.
I have no wish to be alerted by email that a text-based message (that they could have delivered in the first fucking place via email) is awaiting me at Facebook.
I certainly have no desire to put a begging button on my site in search of what they laughingly classify as ‘friendship’.
I no longer wish to use Facebook, or be associated with it in any way.
Let me buff my brass buttons: I have never (I think) had a single friend on Facebook. I plead guilty to the account, but I allege that I only used it twice. I am however, beaten by a couple of people in Tim’s comments, who have never even dipped a toe in the poisoned lake.
Tags: facebook, claire beale, tim ireland, justin mckeating
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Categories: Internet / Technical, Knockabout
Oh dear, missed out on a mention again.
I quite like it myself, mainly for the scrabble.
Ordo, you would.
Sorry, James – Was I not thorough enough ?
I second the scrabble comment.
Would that be Welsh scrabble? 13 L’s and 4 Es, perhaps?
How is it different?
Go facebook!
Facebook seems faceless to me in relation to the robotic effects of FARCEbook trying to protect themselves from what their farcebots consider is ’spam’. One might have thought that people would use the same message on a large portion of friends saving time on re-writing BUT not FARCEbook who see it as a dangerous action. Sadly their farcebots can’t tell the difference from adverts and social connectivity of human beings – though one could think that checking up on private messages sent to friends to invite them to connect fell outside the scope of control and into the scope of privacy.
Of course don’t get me started on someone being disabled not getting the right of reply – defending themselves with being able to collect their history and not knowing what the hell they’ve been ‘disabled’ – ‘crippled’ – cut off or whatever else you’d like to call it. I don’t know if anyone’s read Franz Kafka ‘The Trial” but it certainly seemed poignant to me FARCEbook appears very Kafkaesque. Faceless farce book!