解放!/liberation!
We finally deleted our Facebook account. Though we rarely use it, it is still rather important to us to take a stand. The 7-day mandatory period for the inane and invasive 'Timeline' was the last straw. Freedom!PS: Hopefully the account is deleted for good. But one never knows how far the clutch of unrelenting Evilness might extend though.
PPS: Again, hopefully, this will be the long awaited Tipping-point for the Beginning of the Downfall of this arrogant, monstrous and exceedingly overrated behemoth. Perish.
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I think the only absurdity here is your overreaction. Hope you do to the same to your Blogger account once it gets integrated into the other great satan called Google+
Dear Mr Wise Observer
Well well well. Let me guess: You've drunk the Facebook Kool-Aid quite a while ago haven't you? Am surprised they still let you out.
To each his own then. Peace.
Thinkcount
wow that was a harsh -and uncalled for- comment Wise Observer :(
Max you can choose to keep your old profile as is (just like me) but it's true that friends who use it is getting obnoxious. Your are a true example of people who take a stand, not because they CAN change the way things roll, but for their OWN sake and inner justice so good for you.
Now what I'm afraid of internet-wise is the bullshit that is ACTA and SOPA -.-"
Mr. Wang Lova'
Hi TK: Good for you. I've been giving it some thought, myself. However, I've been hesitant, because my friends and relatives are addicted to the damn thing and don't communicate with me any other way than facebook. But FB's recent changes may give me that needed push.
And no worries, the only thing I have found absurd about the topic was Wise Observer's banal peanut gallery post.
Peace & Love
Dear Max: I wonder what this is all about?
Dear Mr Wang Lova'
Thank you for your kind words dear. They're much appreciated. :)
What I failed to clarify in my reply to Mr Wise Observer is that:
1. Facebook's 'Timeline' nonsense is a reality; whereas the Blogger-being-absorbed-into-Google+ scenario is hypothetical.
2. What Google is implementing is a one-stop privacy policy integration. Which is something I can understand [even if I am not entirely happy with it].
Google is a listed company, and thus it has an obligation to generate revenues for its share-holders.
And data-mining is part and parcel of any website offering so-called 'free' services to online users. Likewise for the 'product recommendation'/'personalised advertising' features, without which, the company will not have been able to survive and are thus 'validated' in this commercial sense.
Therefore coupled the two together, and the result is the One Privacy Policy resolution.
As such, I am cool with that, as it's an integral portion of the quote-unquote 'Free Capitalism'.
But, for Facebook's 'Timeline', I fail to see how that will generate more revenue [which at least makes sense] to the company. I mean dragging up & featuring people's regrettable pasts isn't going to sell more products now, or is it?
So it seems to me FB's mandatory imposition is mostly if not all due to Mr Mark Zuckerberg's raging, and regrettably unchecked, Egoism, again. Hence my vehement objection.
Be that as it may, I'm really rather convinced that FB will soon meet its comeuppance.
Meanwhile I totally agree with you re: the worrying ACTA and SOPA. Corporate greed, I tell ya, just sheer unmitigated Corporate Greed rearing its ugly head again. Sigh.
Thinkcount
Dear Sean
Thank you too for your kind words. Thinkcount is most appreciative dear. :)
I shan't bore you again with my little tirade re: FB [pls see my earlier response to Mr Wang Lova'].
Meanwhile, stay tuned. I've another post featuring a hunky Japanese boy coming up soon.
Cheerios!
Thinkcount
Dear DG
It was a BAAD Day. And I decided that I had been a good and REASONABLE boy long enough, and therefore had earned my right to throw a little tantrum online so to speak.
It's Li.Be.Ra.Ting. dear I tell you. Try it sometime! ;)
Thinkcount
Dear Max: Thanks to you and your post, I finally found out about the FB Timline nonsense. My goodness. I'm in complete support of you deleting your FB account.
As for your rant - you have every right to expressing how you feel - this is your blog after all.
Dear Sean: You really should wean your friends and family off their dependancy. It's not healthy at all. I know because I see it at work in the office and it really eats up precious time, and is completely meaningless.
Dear Mr Wang Lova: I agree with you about the 'uncalled' for bit. It's really very nasty and completely uncalled for. Poor uncle max.
And now i have to find out what ACTA and SOPA are.
Dear Max: what are they?
Dear DG
Thank you so much for your kind words and understanding.
OK, ACTA is the acronym for 'The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement'; and SOPA is 'The Stop Online Piracy Act'.
Both, as you can see, are ostensibly about protecting copyrights & intellectual properties, but are in actual fact much more far-reaching than that. Many argue that they ultimately infringe on Freedom of Expression and enpower Censorship.
Both bills/drafts are still being debated, and more details are here:
ACTA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement
SOPA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
Remember the recent worldwide 24-hour 'Blackout' staged by the English-language version of Wikipedia? That's in protest of SOPA.
Hope that helps dear.
Thinkcount
Stranger and stranger . . . people's responses to other's comments are often troubling and, as you noted, often 'snarky and impertinent'. This being your blog, you've the responsibility (and the right?) to opine and editorialize. That relatively anonymous people would argue without context is annoying. That's why I deleted my blog, too much reaction that didn't make sense. Couldn't figure out what people wanted, presumed it was just to argue and try to offend as much as possible.
But I realize today that your audience is consistently good and real in their comments! How have you cultivated such? Hmm. Perhaps something about your style is less attractive to trolls? Hmm, hmm, hmm. I want to attract dragonboaters, not trolls!!!
About Facebook, I've deleted my acct years ago, having worked in data mining at it's beginning I knew that I would be the product, not the customer; there's little I want to be sold in this world! I miss the 'good old days' of mis-typing addresses, hours to download text files (gave me time for a break while batches would dl and run!), and getting porn only from the magazine store down the street or watching my frisky neighbors, who have sadly moved out and been replaced by a boring couple who close the curtains.
Oh, my age shows again. Anyway I've lost friends because they only communicate through Facebook. Such is life, the few I've kept in touch with are becoming boring with a life based on vid clips and short mis-typed messages. Basically nothing is lost by not using that forum for social contact, since you've a good and fulfilling life already you probably won't even notice not using FB!!!
Thanks for the sane and balanced (not fair, but it isn't meant to be) conversations on here! Whatever you're doing is working.
Likewise, I refuse to respond to the hieroglyphic nonsense that is texting. If you want to communicate via gibberish, don't involve me. Its just laziness. If you can't be bothered speaking the speech and letting the words flow trippingly from the tongue, then obviously you have nothing to say anyway. Words are wonderful and add nuance and meaning and feeling to communicating. Texters are like chickens pecking aimlessly around the hen house.- Ian
Dear littlestevie
Thank you for your kind words. I literally laughed out loud when I reached the bit about 'I want to attract dragonboaters, not trolls!!!
Yes Thinkcount has been rather blessed in the sense that, except for those three unfortunate instances, most of the commentators of our little blog contribute comments that are thoughtful, considerate & appreciative.
Thinkcount's sensibility is constituted in such a way that, once the other starts in in an impolite tone, our temper will start rising. Then it really doesn't matter what he/she has to say, because they have crossed a line beyond which Thinkcount has absolutely no desire to waste any precious energies on such ill-mannered discourse.
Weak of me, in a way, I know, but it's part of my character and is very hard to change.
Anyways, Happy Year of the Dragon. Am glad to see that you're commentating again.
Take care dear.
Thinkcount
Dear Ian
On most occasions we are agreed with each other, but in the case of texting, I'm afraid I've to beg to differ.
But then I've always been known as Mr SMS; at my peak texting period, I once sent out more than 2000 messages [!] in a month. Buddha be thanked that those manic-hectic days are ovah.
I like texting because, to me, it's another form of writing. So I'd actually spend time crafting my response, aiming for - though sadly not always achieving - accuracy, brevity, and wit all at once.
To me, the ring of the telephone is just downright disruptive, as it breaks in, unannounced, on one's schedule and insists on being attended to. I really rather dislike such interruptions, and so, am most loathe to inflict similar pains on others.
So you can imagine what a blessing the invention of texting was and still very much is, to an individual like moi.
But I can understand, not everyone takes time to write their texts, and the results can thus be rather jarring to view, especially to a discerning literate eye. ;(
Thinkcount
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