since I don't want to study (or proof read or edit...)

Dec 05, 2010 23:31

So Facebook is doing a new profile thing (again), and it annoys me (as usual). Now it's becoming "more graphic" (ie more pictures and stuff) and less and less individualistic. It's perfect fodder for companies to exploit your info - since Facebook keeps reducing everyone to a fill out form that basically says 'Dear Random Company, please give me ads on this-generic-thing-that's-linked, and this, and this and this.' And all people care about is the privacy thing? How about how Facebook is becoming more antisocial all the time? It's one thing to use it to communicate with your friends about planning a party or something. Then comes profile stalking where people's first impression and judgements of you - before you meet - is your Facebook profile. And now individual anecdotes have been replaced by drop down lists. It's like going from letter writing to twittering (tweeting? Whatever. Twitter blows.)(Yes, that's a reference to that vid with the Harry Potter cast attempting American accents). Anyway, where was I...letter writing to twittering to a bubble-in scantron. Forget loss of privacy and proliferation of private information, this is a deliberate bureaucratic loss of identity.

Ok, back to Torchwood.
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