Facebook lunacy
There’s the Instant Messaging application. And What Kind of Flirt Are You? Then there’s Likeness. And True Match. And Send Sunshine. And Are YOU Interested? And Booze Mail, Are You Normal, X Me, Superpoke, Super Wall, Compare People, Top Friends, Hot or Not, Vampires, Growing Gifts, Pirates vs Ninjas, Zombies, Werewolves, Cute vs Sexy, Hugs, Snowball Fight…
Holy Christ in a rusty bucket, it goes on and on. There is so much utterly pointless shite on Facebook. Some friends have installed the lot – it takes a full twenty minutes to scroll down through their profile just to write on their wall, dodging aquariums, pop videos, pictures of fat naked women with amusing captions and pirates.
I’ve only mentioned the applications. Then there are the groups. Groups for people called Bert, groups for people who suffer from perpetually soft stools, groups for people who love Pete Doherty, groups for people who hate him, groups for people who like joining groups with amusing names, groups people join and then do absolutely nothing in before leaving the same group a month later.
Hannah now refers to Facebooking people, not emailing them. I like email. Gmail is nice and simple. You choose someone to get in touch with, you write to them, that’s it. You’re not prompted to attach a poke, sheep, hug, drink, horoscope or any other truly pointless time-wasting annoyance. I am going to try and back slowly away from Facebook and get back to old-fashioned email. Yes kids, email is what we had before Facebook.
Other things we had before Facebook –
- not being regularly updated on every small thing about everyone you have ever spent more than ten minutes with
- good old-fashioned falling out of contact with people
- not having your movements, preferences and habits being tracked my anyone more scary than Sainsburys Reward Card
- not being invited to buy a drink for someone that isn’t even a drink, just a pointless icon on their profile that says I got them a drink
- not being bitten by a ninja zombie pirate
So if it is all so pointless, why am I always on it? That’s it. I’m weaning myself off Facebook. I did it with Tetris, it can’t be that hard.
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What’s Tetris?
“What’s Tetris?”
It’s like crack for people who like ‘organising’ games.
God how did you wean yourself of Tetris? You must have a will of iron. There was another one, a wall of coloured squares that you deleted systematically to join up a big block of the same colour square. Sundara asked me to put it on the laptop recently. When I do that will be another weekend spent staring at the back of his head.
I’m very ‘meh’ about facebook, I may delete all the extraneous crap from my profile and it will just be me, being dull and repeatedly letting people know how tired I am.
I have discovered Ravelry though, which is crack for knitting and crochet geeks. This weekend I have to take some photos of wool I’ve purchased recently and upload it. Sad is not the word.
i missed this post earlier…
I have the same feelings…Facebook brings out the voyeur in all of us. It’s like being a nosy neighbour. I just wish people would realise that you can drag and drop your wall to the top of the page.