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10 August 2009
Hey, Gang! Let's Make Fun of Facebook!→[More:]
jason's_planet is . . . transmitting a cryptic, vaguely ominous status update in order to elicit equally vague expressions of concern.
jason's_planet is sooooooo wasted, dude! Check out my sooooooo wasted photo album below.
When describing Facebook to people not familiar with it, I would say, "you can post completely inane things like 'so and so is cutting her toenails.'" A few days ago, a Friend posted "so and so is cutting her toenails."
Thus far, I've been able to resist the siren song of Facebook. Gods willing, I'll remain strong forever...or until the Darpa funded, personal info selling, ad machine fixes their privacy policy to something that vaguely resembles rational. (I know, I know...back to the luddite commune with me. I'm going...)
Facebook Purity makes FB much less annoying. It hides all those "Which 80's song are you?" or "Which Star Trek TNG Character are you?" quiz crap. That and doing what TPS says.
There's a bunch of teenagers and young adults from church who friended me and I've had to turn off all of their news feeds. They're nice kids and all but there's only so much teen angst that I care to read about. Everything is so dramatic.
The most dramatic person on my newsfeed is my academic advisor from my old college. The man has a PhD and still posts status updates like "Dr. X met his future wife in a bar tonight!!1!" I love it.
D.C. just shaved the damn beard. I only had it for so long because Mindy always urged me to keep it, even in the last few years. I look about five years younger.
(My actual last update. I'm sure you were all just dying to know these details about my life. Names obfuscated to protect the guilty.)
On Facebook I know I've slighted a few people by not accepting "gifts" or any other interaction with third-party apps. I actually like seeing which people obsessively use those damn things so I can look down on them a little. A particularly pretentious friend from high school, with degrees from Vassar and Oxford, spends way too much of her evenings playing idiotic Facebook game apps.
One thing to note about FB purity: Sometimes Facebook makes code updates that break it, and it will look like your newsfeed is empty. (Or missing stuff.) They usually post updates within a few hours, and you just reinstall, then you're good to go.
Though truth be told, I appreciate the script all the more when I'm forced to spend a couple of hours without it every couple of weeks or so.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
