[kj] OT: I dislike Farcebook

[The Exorcist]

My eyes! My eyes!
You also forgot to add the infamous "Validation 
error" I seem to be getting quite often.

At 10:21 AM 3/29/2009, Brendan Quinn wrote:

>Doesn’t bother me who agrees and disagrees with 

>me Mil, I just reached the end of my rope with 

>the thing. I type fast and multitask on a PC 

>pretty quick so the speed issue grates, and my 

>last dozen or so facebook experiences involved 

>getting emailed to hear that an application 

>being used by a friend of someone I worked with 

>8 years ago (and didn’t like but friended out of 

>awkwardness and wanting to look like I’m really 

>popular and catch up with those heroes with 336 

>‘friends’) wanted to bug me about some crappy 

>quiz about my sex life of stupid Hollywood 

>movies, and hey it thought it’d spam the living 

>shit out of EVERYONE starting from that person’s 

>circle of ‘friends’ all the way to Kevin Fucking 

>Bacon, and all you have to do is click on this 

>email link, sign in, wait and wait and wait and 

>wait and wait and reload the page and wait and 

>wait and try another site to make sure it’s not 

>your internet connection, and kill your browser 

>session, clear your cache, restart your router, 

>in the process accidentally knocking over the 

>stack of 50 blank DVDS onto the floor, pick them 

>back up and throw away the bottom 4 that are 

>fucked, go peel and eat a carrot and silently 

>chant the Mantra of Calmness to find your happy 

>place, come back, go through the whole process 

>again, and then if your little data load wins 

>the sperm race and beats all the billions of 

>other little data loads in to the Deathstar’s 

>servers, YAY! you get the chance add the 

>application PERMANENTLY into your life and get 

>bugged ever more frequently and thereby give 

>some bunch of soulless nerds access to all of 

>your personal data so that you can take the quiz 

>or kill an undead ninja pirate in some pathetic 

>‘game’ that doesn’t match Pong for graphics or 

>playability, all in order to garner demographic 

>information about who you are, who you talk to 

>and what you like and WHAT THEY CAN SELL YOU and 

>the only way to delete your data permanently is 

>to delete your whole profile, all your friends, 

>photos, every single message you’ve sent or 

>received, all the stupid wall and super wall and 

>poke and super poke and endless notifications 

>about what other people are thinking and blah 

>blah blah blah blah blah and jump through dozens 

>of fiery barbed hoops turning all the 

>notification options off, each time waiting for 

>the laggy piece of shit site to catch up cos 

>it’s busy driving millions of other people 

>insane and rendering the entire online world yet 

>stupider and more shallow, and THEN ask Facebook 

>personally, via email (?!) to kindly delete your 

>account, and wait A WEEK, then take their word 

>for it that they have, while they no doubt make 

>sure to reload all your info from backup 

>straight into the CIA’s servers and highlight 

>your account because you were one of the very 

>few who not only wanted to leave the Matrix, but 

>managed to find out how and actually take the 

>time to delete every single annoying piece of 

>data on the stupid, fucking, thing.

>

>Anyway. I hate it and my last handful of 

>experiences with it have sapped my will to live. 

>But hey

we can still be friends J

>

>PS: Anyone who takes me too seriously when I go 

>on like this, please turn down your credulity.

>

>

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>From: gathering-bounces at misera.net 

>[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of melinda grant

>Sent: Sunday, 29 March 2009 23:40

>To: thegathering mailing list

>Subject: Re: [kj] OT: I dislike Farcebook

>

>sorry  but i have  to agree with jel,i like 

>faceboo,it has its uses,i to have been able to 

>keep in contact with dear friends and many 

>members of my family,plus exstended family world wide ;)

>

>i find there  features amusing and other peoples 

>comments hilariuos,and the chat facility-i spend 

>hours on that ,keepimg up to date with everyone ;)

>

>milindafgrant ps sorry brandan you had bad 

>exsperiene of facebook ;( i find myspace a pain if that helps ;P

>

>

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>From: jelbod at hotmail.co.uk

>To: gathering at misera.net

>Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:18:29 +0100

>Subject: Re: [kj] OT: I dislike Farcebook

>

>

>Whilst i concur with you both to a certain 

>degree, i have to say that Facebook has kept me 

>better in touch with some friends and allowed me 

>to catch up with some that i had lost touch 

>with, along with being imformed of some 

>interesting things. Then there's Jonn Chapman 

>and Fat(Jamie) Potanga's post which keep me 

>thoroughly amused. I like it, sad...but true!

>

>Jel

>

>

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>Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:44:01 +1300

>From: humanhybrid666 at gmail.com

>To: gathering at misera.net

>Subject: Re: [kj] OT: I dislike Farcebook

>amen brother BQ, fuck that shit right off, your 

>life will be the better for it!

>

>=)

>

>

>

>

>On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Brendan Quinn 

><<mailto:bq at soundgardener.co.nz>bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

>I am so inclined to take down my facebook 

>profile. Every time I go to use it I find it’s 

>so slow as to be unusable, literally, the new 

>interface is ghastly, and it’s all one big fat 

>popularity contest reminding me how shallow my 

>friends and family and their friends and family are

*shudder*

>

>Seriously, each time I’ve gone to use it over 

>the last few months it’s annoyed the heck out of 

>me and ruined the stillness and perfection of my Buddha-nature.

>

>/rant

>

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