October 17, 201212 yr See, all I have as 'friends' are my wife's friends. All they post about is some jewelry they like, or their vagina is itchy. I have one actual friend from NY on there, and all he posts about is the Giants. I'd rather hear about itchy vaginas.
October 17, 201212 yr See, all I have as 'friends' are my wife's friends. All they post about is some jewelry they like, or their vagina is itchy. I have one actual friend from NY on there, and all he posts about is the Giants. I'd rather hear about itchy vaginas. Quit trying to confuse us.
October 17, 201212 yr I appreciate seeing interesting articles/videos and funny pictures/videos. Party invitations and other event notices are acceptable, assuming it's not primarily for financial gain. Occasional life-update/personal posts are fine. Pictures are good as long as they don't come in trickle-form for the same event. Thought I would post this, since some people seem confused about what is actually desirable to see. I primarily want to see things of intellectual interest, or things that tickle the funny-bone.
October 17, 201212 yr I also have a penchant for posting 90s alt/indie rock videos when drinking. Can't hate on that! I actually don't hide anyone on facebook, but man is it annoying to see all the marriage updates. Being a Californian, it blows my mind to see people marry before 30. Most of these people were monsters in college and I'm sure their new partners know nothing of their past. I know I'm not getting married until at least 35, maybe even 40 (which equals 30 in Ohio years). I have too much life to live!
October 18, 201212 yr Facebook is now placing "sponsored links" on my newsfeed. The last one claimed that Romney was a financial genius. The owners of Facebook are trying squeeze some revenue out of that business that the shareholders paid ten times too much to purchase in "the IPO".
October 18, 201212 yr There's this young publisher/entrepreneur I know, an extremely successful local guy, millionaire by late adolescence, yadda yadda. I wouldn't say we're friends but are somewhat friendly, certainly civil. What he does almost every day is post a cliche about the pursuit of happiness and a good life. Something like, in caps, "A REAL MAN IS A GOOD HU-MAN," or "GOD DEMANDS LOVE, I DEMAND RESPECT," I mean, some laughable garbage like that. The line is usually a caption underneath some strange modelesque shot of this guy, your know, like where he's got his arms folded and staring seriously ahead. This stuff I dont mind. Sure it's hackneyed and somewhat egotistical, but what drives me nuts are the responses. He gets at least dozens of "Amen" or "You are so right" or "You are a beautiful man". It's a combination of sycophants and people who want to be in his good graces due to his wealth and celebrity, that's completely the vibe I get. Really what they're saying is I WANT TO BE IN YOUR CIRCLE or ultimately GIVE ME MONEY! kind of annoying overall, kind of funny too
October 18, 201212 yr Thought I would post this, since some people seem confused about what is actually desirable to see. I primarily want to see things of intellectual interest, or things that tickle the funny-bone. That's what I use Twitter for. I don't follow my friends at all on Twitter unless they post things relevant to this. I get news, funny links/tweets, and intellectual things from majority of my followers. I can't trust my Facebook friends to post the same level of content. There is a completely different atmosphere for me on Twitter than on Facebook. Largely I ignore facebook unless I am posting something of substance or reading what others have said directly to me. Unfortunately, I can't get rid of facebook because it is the universal portal for organizing events nowadays (at least for events related to college). I would miss out on a lot if it weren't for Facebook updates.
October 19, 201212 yr Political spats on Facebook affect real-life relationships, opportunities http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20121018/LIFE07/310180050/Political-spats-Facebook-affect-relationships-opportunities?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s Doubt this is worth paying for....
October 20, 201212 yr There's this young publisher/entrepreneur I know, an extremely successful local guy, millionaire by late adolescence, yadda yadda. I wouldn't say we're friends but are somewhat friendly, certainly civil. What he does almost every day is post a cliche about the pursuit of happiness and a good life. Something like, in caps, "A REAL MAN IS A GOOD HU-MAN," or "GOD DEMANDS LOVE, I DEMAND RESPECT," I mean, some laughable garbage like that. The line is usually a caption underneath some strange modelesque shot of this guy, your know, like where he's got his arms folded and staring seriously ahead. This stuff I dont mind. Sure it's hackneyed and somewhat egotistical, but what drives me nuts are the responses. He gets at least dozens of "Amen" or "You are so right" or "You are a beautiful man". It's a combination of sycophants and people who want to be in his good graces due to his wealth and celebrity, that's completely the vibe I get. Really what they're saying is I WANT TO BE IN YOUR CIRCLE or ultimately GIVE ME MONEY! kind of annoying overall, kind of funny too That stuff really irritates me. Money can't buy class. I have a friend who thinks that because he's becoming a quasi- big time screen writer in Hollywood, he can say the most vulgar, bigoted jokes on the planet on FB and get away with it but because he's Mr. Hollywood now, he gets nothing but like 40 responses from everybody praising his wit and success. Ever since he posted a status update wherein he bragged about getting this big $500k check in the mail for his screen play, everything he posts gets 30 likes and responses from @ss-kissers. I knew him before he showed up in movie credits. The guy is a complete douche (and I hope his movie flops.) I predict that once all the hype dies down, the @ss-kissers are going to go away and he'll become severely depressed and addicted to drugs because a narcissist is nothing without its perpetual @ss-kissers fueling him.
October 20, 201212 yr I also can't stand the "wah, I'm depressed. I have no friends newsfeeds," followed by all these comments about how special the poster is and what not. It's not a plea for help really, just a lame need for validation, and is ultimately just attention-whoring. That's why I de-activated my account going on 7 months now. I got so tired of reading the same old sh** about people and their personal problems/stress/etc. I am thinking about getting back on Facebook just to catch up with so many old friends from Cleveland, Michigan, and down South. I remember my freshmen year at CSU I was addicted to Facebook; had to get on in class on my phone, get back to my dorm and get on Facebook just to see what was going on. I had to know everything that was going on with so many of my high school friends... now it's like I don't give a sh**. I do miss seeing how some people are doing, and that is the only reason I plan to get back on. I feel I am out of the loop a little... as bad as that sounds.
October 20, 201212 yr Thought I would post this, since some people seem confused about what is actually desirable to see. I primarily want to see things of intellectual interest, or things that tickle the funny-bone. That's what I use Twitter for. I don't follow my friends at all on Twitter unless they post things relevant to this. I get news, funny links/tweets, and intellectual things from majority of my followers. I can't trust my Facebook friends to post the same level of content. There is a completely different atmosphere for me on Twitter than on Facebook. Largely I ignore facebook unless I am posting something of substance or reading what others have said directly to me. Unfortunately, I can't get rid of facebook because it is the universal portal for organizing events nowadays (at least for events related to college). I would miss out on a lot if it weren't for Facebook updates. This is exactly how I am. Twitter has really garnered my attention over the last year, especially due to the fact I am not on Facebook like I once was. I certainly need to get back on Facebook because when you have lived in several different areas of the country, and have friends all over the country, keeping in contact with them only seems plausible through Facebook.
October 20, 201212 yr I don't really use Twitter. Mostly because it is too public. It hasn't grasped me as essential, like FB has. FB allows me to keep a link to people from my past who I would have to work to find contact info for otherwise.
October 22, 201212 yr What's crazy now is how many jobs are requiring you to list how many facebook friends you have and require an active twitter account with lots of re-tweets. These social media marketing jobs are one of the fastest-growing segments of our economy, but is this actually translating into increased sales? It seems like the companies with the biggest social media followings were among the biggest in their respective industries before social media existed. *The auto industry was big and early on the social media wagon, and I wonder how successful their social media campaigns have been. It'd be interesting to track how many sales were generated through facebook and twitter leads. It'd also be interesting to contrast the auto industry with other industries like finance. Does anyone follow big banks? What about hospitals? The medical industry seems to be putting a ton of resources into social media...education too.
October 22, 201212 yr ooh myyy - funny from sulu's facebook: Takei/his people have done an absolutely tremendous job using Facebook as a PR/promotional tool.
October 22, 201212 yr What's crazy now is how many jobs are requiring you to list how many facebook friends you have and require an active twitter account with lots of re-tweets. These social media marketing jobs are one of the fastest-growing segments of our economy, but is this actually translating into increased sales? It seems like the companies with the biggest social media followings were among the biggest in their respective industries before social media existed. *The auto industry was big and early on the social media wagon, and I wonder how successful their social media campaigns have been. It'd be interesting to track how many sales were generated through facebook and twitter leads. It'd also be interesting to contrast the auto industry with other industries like finance. Does anyone follow big banks? What about hospitals? The medical industry seems to be putting a ton of resources into social media...education too. Whether you follow them or not does not always matter. For example, all the Obama ads in my newsfeed. I've actively tried to block them, as I wouldn't vote for him under any circumstances whatsoever. Doesn't work. I think people are resigned to it too. I started a "blocking political ads" page and it didn't get many followers.
October 22, 201212 yr What's crazy now is how many jobs are requiring you to list how many facebook friends you have and require an active twitter account with lots of re-tweets. These social media marketing jobs are one of the fastest-growing segments of our economy, but is this actually translating into increased sales? It seems like the companies with the biggest social media followings were among the biggest in their respective industries before social media existed. *The auto industry was big and early on the social media wagon, and I wonder how successful their social media campaigns have been. It'd be interesting to track how many sales were generated through facebook and twitter leads. It'd also be interesting to contrast the auto industry with other industries like finance. Does anyone follow big banks? What about hospitals? The medical industry seems to be putting a ton of resources into social media...education too. Is that Facebook friend question even legal? And as much as I appreciate the Facebook friends of my business, Facebook simply cannot turn a business from dud to stud. It's just another part of the marketing mix. That's probably why it's free to start a business page on there -- that's about what it's worth. GM stopped Facebook advertising about six months ago.
October 22, 201212 yr Whether you follow them or not does not always matter. For example, all the Obama ads in my newsfeed. I've actively tried to block them, as I wouldn't vote for him under any circumstances whatsoever. Doesn't work. I think people are resigned to it too. I started a "blocking political ads" page and it didn't get many followers. The Obama campaign is putting dump truck loads of money into New Media. I don't think they're doing all that good of a job targeting the right content and users with their New Media work. They're taking the shotgun approach. Do you have a lot of friends that are Democrats, Independents and swing voters? Just being an Ohioan gets you put in the crosshairs for one.
October 22, 201212 yr GM stopped Facebook advertising about six months ago. Yeah, I read about that. I wonder if they saw some numbers other companies aren't seeing. Ford was considered one of the best social media models for mega-corporations. I wonder how much that has translated into sales? Ford already was doing better than other automakers, so I just don't know. The Fiesta was a big social media campaign. How is that car doing?
October 22, 201212 yr GM stopped Facebook advertising about six months ago. Yeah, I read about that. I wonder if they saw some numbers other companies aren't seeing. Ford was considered one of the best social media models for mega-corporations. I wonder how much that has translated into sales? Ford already was doing better than other automakers, so I just don't know. The Fiesta was a big social media campaign. How is that car doing? Ford? Considered by who? Please share that published information.
October 22, 201212 yr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ernan-roman/lessons-from-fords-brilli_b_816605.html http://mashable.com/2009/05/18/ford-social-media/ http://www.autoobserver.com/2011/11/social-media-keys-fords-marketing-renaissance.html http://www.marketwatch.com/story/forddirects-new-reputation-and-social-media-management-service-builds-a-positive-online-brand-for-ford-and-lincoln-dealers-2012-07-17 http://www.digiday.com/brands/why-ford-credits-social-media-in-turnaround/
October 23, 201212 yr Whether you follow them or not does not always matter. For example, all the Obama ads in my newsfeed. I've actively tried to block them, as I wouldn't vote for him under any circumstances whatsoever. Doesn't work. I think people are resigned to it too. I started a "blocking political ads" page and it didn't get many followers. The Obama campaign is putting dump truck loads of money into New Media. I don't think they're doing all that good of a job targeting the right content and users with their New Media work. They're taking the shotgun approach. Do you have a lot of friends that are Democrats, Independents and swing voters? Just being an Ohioan gets you put in the crosshairs for one. Some Democrats. Mostly Republicans, but a lot of that is because of my age group (I think I have 10 conservative HS classmates for every liberal, and we were a Democrat-leaning suburb). I've previously clicked "misleading" on Democrat/Obama ads on the borders, and belong to some conservative pages. I think it's the Ohio thing....
October 23, 201212 yr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ernan-roman/lessons-from-fords-brilli_b_816605.html http://mashable.com/2009/05/18/ford-social-media/ http://www.autoobserver.com/2011/11/social-media-keys-fords-marketing-renaissance.html http://www.marketwatch.com/story/forddirects-new-reputation-and-social-media-management-service-builds-a-positive-online-brand-for-ford-and-lincoln-dealers-2012-07-17 http://www.digiday.com/brands/why-ford-credits-social-media-in-turnaround/ Sweetie, you're going to have to do better than that. Not one of those, states, " one of the best social media models for mega-corporations". Keep in mind one is written by Ford/Ford associated agency and two others are pieces that Ford's PR put out on their use of social media. "Brilliant" was used once in conjunction with in one of their campaigns.
November 1, 201212 yr MTS, I think you might like this article...even though it comes from Forbes (but no PR spin in this one). It turns out Ford's social media push didn't really translate into the kind of sales they wanted. It sounds like social media might open sales, but doesn't close them. It's just a small part of a much bigger puzzle...my theory is targeting Gen Y is a bad idea since they're broke! Ford Fiesta Sales Slump Despite 'Groundbreaking' Social Media Marketing Campaign Three years ago, Ford stole a march on the automotive and marketing worlds by launching its new Fiesta subcompact into the North American market not with a 60-second TV commercial, or two-page color spreads in major consumer magazines, or even with blazing billboards that no one could miss. Instead, Ford recruited 100 influential bloggers, gave them each their own European-spec Fiesta to drive for a while, and asked the digital literati to spread the good word about the means for Ford’s re-entry into an important U.S. product segment — one that it essentially had left unfilled since selling the last of the original American version of the Fiesta in 1980. “Fiesta Movement” was just the beginning of Ford’s determined leadership of social-media marketing and created an auspicious entry for the new car. Bloggers typically loved the vehicle, generated a lot of buzz about it, and prompted thousands of Americans to become “handraisers” for the new U.S.-spec model even before it began rolling off Ford’s assembly line in Mexico in volume in early 2010. ...But fast forward to today. Sales of Fiesta fell by 44 percent in April compared with a year earlier, Ford reported this week; they are down by 30 percent year-to-date compared with 2011; and Ford expects Fiesta’s “normal volume” to stay at this level for the rest of the year, Ken Czubay, the company’s U.S. sales vice president, told reporters. http://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebuss/2012/05/02/fiesta-sales-slump-suggests-the-end-of-the-movement/
November 2, 201212 yr One thing that often happens with vehicles with a lot of competition is that they see their sales drop as new competing models are introduced and other vehicles are improved. The "B-segment", of which Fiesta is a member, does have a lot of different cars available. I don't think that tells the whole story, though.
November 2, 201212 yr MTS, I think you might like this article...even though it comes from Forbes (but no PR spin in this one). It turns out Ford's social media push didn't really translate into the kind of sales they wanted. It sounds like social media might open sales, but doesn't close them. It's just a small part of a much bigger puzzle...my theory is targeting Gen Y is a bad idea since they're broke! Ford Fiesta Sales Slump Despite 'Groundbreaking' Social Media Marketing Campaign Three years ago, Ford stole a march on the automotive and marketing worlds by launching its new Fiesta subcompact into the North American market not with a 60-second TV commercial, or two-page color spreads in major consumer magazines, or even with blazing billboards that no one could miss. Instead, Ford recruited 100 influential bloggers, gave them each their own European-spec Fiesta to drive for a while, and asked the digital literati to spread the good word about the means for Ford’s re-entry into an important U.S. product segment — one that it essentially had left unfilled since selling the last of the original American version of the Fiesta in 1980. “Fiesta Movement” was just the beginning of Ford’s determined leadership of social-media marketing and created an auspicious entry for the new car. Bloggers typically loved the vehicle, generated a lot of buzz about it, and prompted thousands of Americans to become “handraisers” for the new U.S.-spec model even before it began rolling off Ford’s assembly line in Mexico in volume in early 2010. ...But fast forward to today. Sales of Fiesta fell by 44 percent in April compared with a year earlier, Ford reported this week; they are down by 30 percent year-to-date compared with 2011; and Ford expects Fiesta’s “normal volume” to stay at this level for the rest of the year, Ken Czubay, the company’s U.S. sales vice president, told reporters. http://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebuss/2012/05/02/fiesta-sales-slump-suggests-the-end-of-the-movement/ Dude the author is a contributor to Forbes who specializes in General Motors. Lets drop this. OK?
November 6, 201212 yr Fair enough. Man, you can spot the bias from a mile away! Moving on, I've got a friend who is bashing work on Facebook. She's not friends with anyone from her workplace, but this is still risky, right? I'm always friends with people I work with, so I would never do this.
December 29, 201212 yr FaceBook's mapping crap is placing Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood in Clifton Ohio - about 75 miles off to the north. Their "Your year in review" thing is pretty nuts, too. It's kinda fun just sitting back & watching the site descend into madness.
December 29, 201212 yr That would be a good name for a documentary in about 10 years. "Descent into Madness: The Company that Shouldn't Have Gone Public"
December 29, 201212 yr >It's kinda fun just sitting back & watching the site descend into madness. The ads are getting annoying. I've actually had to go and click on cooler stuff on the merchant sites I've visited just to get annoying stuff off the ads, where they hang out for weeks at a time. Like if you look up gongs, just to see what a 36" Chinese gong goes for these days, you will have that damn gong tempting you for the next six weeks. When ads get annoying, people go elsewhere. That's been the law of the internet since the beginning. I keep hearing that high schoolers are defecting from Facebook and conducting all of their lurid business on Twitter, and getting away from the ads might be a reason. Plus they can converse in cipher that their parents and other lame people can't understand, as opposed to photos which leave nothing to the imagination.
December 29, 201212 yr Adblock Plus seems to do a fine job on Facebook for me. What get annoying are the apps; it took me awhile to figure out how to block app invites, and I am still mad I have to block invites from certain people rather than a flat out block-all. I like getting deals and info from businesses I like around town, otherwise I'd be gone from Facebook entirely.
January 2, 201312 yr ^That's funny becasue I've have been using Adblock for so long now, I forget there are actually ads on websites until the rare moment comes when I am on a computer without it.
January 3, 201312 yr I agree it's a lot less fun when every relative and their neighbor you met once at a cookout is friending you. I just want to be able to stalk my college girlfriend and post heavy metal videos in peace.
January 3, 201312 yr I think a lot of my high school and even college classmates are getting paid by the Koch brothers for their status updates.
January 3, 201312 yr I agree it's a lot less fun when every relative and their neighbor you met once at a cookout is friending you. I just want to be able to stalk my college girlfriend and post heavy metal videos in peace. I long for the days when I could post a swear word in a status or video with some crude content and not picture the look of disappointment on my aunt's face or worry about some HR person seeing it. kinda goes the other way, too. On a community group some chick in her 70s posted a comment about banging some guy in the offices over a bar back in her 20s (and yes, she did name names) The next post was something about, "gramma, NO!"
January 27, 201312 yr Here is an app built by three Kent State undergrad students. This may help those of you with questionable profiles! http://facewa.sh/login
January 27, 201312 yr Looks like it just searches for posts with foul language, which you can then restrict, remove, whatever. Mostly useless, unless you're a kid.
November 2, 201311 yr Looks like teens are losing interest in Facebook. You can't really blame them. Facebook forces people into networks where everybody they know including mere acquaintances finds them almost immediately. People of all ages they want and people they don't want. Then they're stuck with everyone paying attention to everything they do and judging them at an age where they don't always do everything right and their peers often lack tact. Plus, they get dragged into things they don't necessarily care about from the adult world such as constant baby/kid pictures, political rants and self-promotion. Of course, it's a major no-no socially to avoid someone on Facebook or not respond to friend requests. And going private is seen as shady. Twitter and Snapchat at least have some degree of anonymity available if you so choose, and it's more difficult for every single person in your town to see everything you do on those sites. They are also simpler. On the other hand, I think one reason young people really got into MySpace is that they could express themselves a little more on their profiles, no matter how glitter-trashy and buggy that wound up being. Teens really like to shove their interests and passions in people's faces in order to "make an impression". Facebook's dull, singular design might not be able to keep their attention for long, and is why they have started treating it a just another interface to touch base with rather than some place where everything happens. The limitations placed on Facebook by adults and scrutiny by people's entire network have been exposed by the existence of these other, simpler sites. Here's an article on how Facebook is losing the interest of teens: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/30/facebook-teens-drop/ Personally, I log in only when necessary now. The people I haven't had to remove from my feed for Republi-ranting too much have mostly gone baby/kid/vacation/nu-country-"concert" picture-only except for like 3 people. It's not that I am against the site per se, but rather my friends have stopped producing content that is compelling to me... ColDayMan's content is OK, though! Maybe I should add more of you guys because you talk about crap I actually care about.
November 2, 201311 yr No I hardly post anything because it's being seen by...people I grew up with and went to school with who I never liked to begin with and like less now due to their bizarre/depressing online behavior...people I saw precisely once at a neighborhood grill-out 19 years ago...not one but several of my parents' former college roommates...etc. There are at most 20 people on there who I actually want to bounce things off of. It's like if I could get those 20 people in a room we'd have a great time. Except there are 200 people I barely know and don't care about at the same party, drowning them out. Also, I have never gotten more than about 7 likes on any photo or anything I have posted, except for one photo of my neighbor's cats watching me grilling on my deck. I take this to mean I am a pretty unpopular person amongst my hoards of acquaintances, since others get 50+ likes for merely mentioning they like such-and-such biscuits they sell at such-and-such coffee shop.
November 4, 201311 yr Looks like teens are losing interest in Facebook. You can't really blame them. Facebook forces people into networks where everybody they know including mere acquaintances finds them almost immediately. People of all ages they want and people they don't want. Then they're stuck with everyone paying attention to everything they do and judging them at an age where they don't always do everything right and their peers often lack tact. Plus, they get dragged into things they don't necessarily care about from the adult world such as constant baby/kid pictures, political rants and self-promotion. Of course, it's a major no-no socially to avoid someone on Facebook or not respond to friend requests. And going private is seen as shady. Twitter and Snapchat at least have some degree of anonymity available if you so choose, and it's more difficult for every single person in your town to see everything you do on those sites. They are also simpler. On the other hand, I think one reason young people really got into MySpace is that they could express themselves a little more on their profiles, no matter how glitter-trashy and buggy that wound up being. Teens really like to shove their interests and passions in people's faces in order to "make an impression". Facebook's dull, singular design might not be able to keep their attention for long, and is why they have started treating it a just another interface to touch base with rather than some place where everything happens. The limitations placed on Facebook by adults and scrutiny by people's entire network have been exposed by the existence of these other, simpler sites. Here's an article on how Facebook is losing the interest of teens: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/30/facebook-teens-drop/ Personally, I log in only when necessary now. The people I haven't had to remove from my feed for Republi-ranting too much have mostly gone baby/kid/vacation/nu-country-"concert" picture-only except for like 3 people. It's not that I am against the site per se, but rather my friends have stopped producing content that is compelling to me... ColDayMan's content is OK, though! Maybe I should add more of you guys because you talk about crap I actually care about. I'm one of the kid-offenders and definitely known for politics (though it's kind of cool seeing that the most popular girl in my senior class is if anything further right than me and amusing about it....smartassery being a Maple thing). But the networks thing, my main gripe against FB WBITD, has largely gone away. Facebook's main strength these days is its iPhone app, which is much cleaner than the computer site. Kids will always find a place where they can dodge the grownups.
November 4, 201311 yr Maybe it's a sign of my age, but I never felt like I understood how it worked. I mean, I understood the basics, but there were inconsistencies that I could never explain, like how I saw more of certain peoples' posts over others, regradless of how I classified them, and how others' posts would get missed some how. Also, regardless of how many people I set to not see their posts, there were their posts. In any case, I deleted the account back in April. I had my 'last straw' moment when I finally posted something (I thought) of note, about my son doing the St. Baldrick's fundraiser. Do you know that not one of those cows so much as responded or 'liked' the stupid post? Oh they'll get 100 likes for a profile pic change, but I get three (two being my wife and I) likes for my 8yo kid shaving his head for cancer research. Seriously, F@ck all of them. Facebook isn't about mutual sharing, it's about self aggrandizement, and stalking. So I did the hard core delete, where the data is eradicated. I have no patience for nonsense like this.
November 4, 201311 yr I don't understand people getting hung up on "likes". I guess the fact that most people hate me leaves me kinda biased... FB's autofinish is getting berserk. I liked a book called The Big Truck That Went By (about how foreign aid to Haiti has pretty much complerely missed the mark) and when I typed the word, "that" into a FB comment, it wanted to insert the dang book title. goofy forincators...
November 4, 201311 yr Google+ solves a lot of the problems that plague Facebook. Unfortunately, nobody uses it.
November 5, 201311 yr Maybe it's a sign of my age, but I never felt like I understood how it worked. I mean, I understood the basics, but there were inconsistencies that I could never explain, like how I saw more of certain peoples' posts over others, regradless of how I classified them, and how others' posts would get missed some how. Also, regardless of how many people I set to not see their posts, there were their posts. In any case, I deleted the account back in April. I had my 'last straw' moment when I finally posted something (I thought) of note, about my son doing the St. Baldrick's fundraiser. Do you know that not one of those cows so much as responded or 'liked' the stupid post? Oh they'll get 100 likes for a profile pic change, but I get three (two being my wife and I) likes for my 8yo kid shaving his head for cancer research. Seriously, F@ck all of them. Facebook isn't about mutual sharing, it's about self aggrandizement, and stalking. So I did the hard core delete, where the data is eradicated. I have no patience for nonsense like this. Just out of curiosity, how does one do the hard core delete?
November 5, 201311 yr Maybe it's a sign of my age, but I never felt like I understood how it worked. I mean, I understood the basics, but there were inconsistencies that I could never explain, like how I saw more of certain peoples' posts over others, regradless of how I classified them, and how others' posts would get missed some how. Yes, there was a time when stuff would show up on a linear basis and you wouldn't miss anything. But those days are long gone.
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