I feel if you're going to ride around on something so heavy you may as well make it a tribrid and slap on a combustion generator, or have it as an attachment option. Gasoline, propane, hydrogen. Something.

 

I wasn't sure where to put this that it would be relevant. It's not a crime and it's not related to RTA but it's relevant to both.  A friend sent this to me yesterday and it encapsulates one of the big reasons why I quit riding RTA, and touches on things that some of my UO male brethern have expressed compeltely not understanding (and some have even accusing me of making this type of harassment up). This type of thing is what it's like to live like a woman, every day. While you may not witness it yourself, almost every woman I know experiences something like this or a more mild version (like the command to "SMILE!" when you pass a man on the street - which you would never hear a man saying to another man, or wolf whistling, or calling you hot mama or whatever else), almost every day.

 

http://unwinona.tumblr.com/post/30861660109/i-debated-whether-or-not-to-share-this-story

 

Wow! I've heard some brazen harassment before, when I was working temporarily in a branch office and the plant manager didn't realize I had come in early. I thought he was far over the line in the way he was talking to his secretary, all sleazy, verbal stuff, but he never went so far as a rant or threatening violence. Later I told the secretary that I heard all that and that I'd vouch for her if she wanted to file a complaint with HR. She didn't want to stir up anything because "I need this job."

 

I thought the company was more aggressive in enforcing its published non-discrimination policy; I knew they put real penalties behind some HR policies, going as far as dismissal in cases of discrimination for sexual orientation. The secretary said it worked the way it was supposed to if a man was victimized by a man, or if a woman was vicitmized by a woman, but in a case of man vs. woman they'd always find a way to excuse or dismiss the man's behavior.

There's always "another reason" why they got rid of the woman.

I wasn't sure where to put this that it would be relevant. It's not a crime and it's not related to RTA but it's relevant to both.  A friend sent this to me yesterday and it encapsulates one of the big reasons why I quit riding RTA, and touches on things that some of my UO male brethern have expressed compeltely not understanding (and some have even accusing me of making this type of harassment up). This type of thing is what it's like to live like a woman, every day. While you may not witness it yourself, almost every woman I know experiences something like this or a more mild version (like the command to "SMILE!" when you pass a man on the street - which you would never hear a man saying to another man, or wolf whistling, or calling you hot mama or whatever else), almost every day.

 

http://unwinona.tumblr.com/post/30861660109/i-debated-whether-or-not-to-share-this-story

 

 

Oh, I know it's not made up. I've witnessed it first-hand enough times to know it's real. Sometimes alcohol is involved, but oftentimes not. Problem is, it works sometimes. It's especially bad if the first or second time a guy tries that in his life it ends up working. These predators treat it as a numbers game. They know that it doesn't work 9 times out of 10 and even are willing to put up with the inevitable macings, arrests and ass-kickings to use the "technique".

 

One time, I was working a really crappy manual labor job that had some borderline destitute co-workers (my first job after obtaining a second Master's by the way). I was one of the few people that worked that shift who owned a car, so everybody was always trying to jam into my car at lunch so that they wouldn't be stuck eating frozen TV dinners over and over. Well, we go get some Camp Washington Chili and the guy in the passenger seat says, "Watch this." and starts hitting on the girl working the drive through into the speaker before even seeing what she looks like. We pull up to get our food and he starts yelling "Give me your number. I'm going to f--- you! I'm going to f--- you!" It was REALLY embarrassing. The whole restaurant could hear him. The girl was spellbound; she had stars in her eyes. He got her number, we went back to work and and sure enough, after we got off work, he met her at that No Tell Motel that used to be up on the hill at the corner of MLK and Central Parkway and they had sex. They only stayed in contact for a few weeks after.

 

All these good young guys go to school, get well-paying, high-status jobs and spend money trying to get girls, then see troublemakers like him get lots of action and it screws them up badly. Of course, they don't yet realize yet that those sorts of relationships get old fast for most people -- but the damage to their egos has already been done.

Does Cleveland have pedicabs?

I have seen a couple but they are not plentiful nor well-used.

Thanks, I think it will be a good business opportunity when the CC opens

I have seen a couple but they are not plentiful nor well-used.

 

I think that is because they just started this summer.  It may take some time for that service to become more widespread.  Plus another district besides WHD and E4th, I don't think Playhouse outside of theater nights is really there yet.  The distance between WHD and E4th isn't a terrible walk, not the greatest and if a girl were in heels I'm sure it would be rather uncomfortable.  Hopefully with the Apts coming to the Hanna this service may expand.

They've been going 3-4 years, actually.  During summer there is usually one parked at the north end of East 4th St.

I wasn't sure where to put this that it would be relevant. It's not a crime and it's not related to RTA but it's relevant to both.  A friend sent this to me yesterday and it encapsulates one of the big reasons why I quit riding RTA, and touches on things that some of my UO male brethern have expressed compeltely not understanding (and some have even accusing me of making this type of harassment up). This type of thing is what it's like to live like a woman, every day. While you may not witness it yourself, almost every woman I know experiences something like this or a more mild version (like the command to "SMILE!" when you pass a man on the street - which you would never hear a man saying to another man, or wolf whistling, or calling you hot mama or whatever else), almost every day.

 

http://unwinona.tumblr.com/post/30861660109/i-debated-whether-or-not-to-share-this-story

 

 

One of my brothers is like that. It pisses me off and embarrasses me when he does it. I won't go anywhere in public with him because of it. He's always whistling at random women when walking down the street, or going, "Hey Cutie", "Hey sexy!" etc... I've tried to tell him, "Have you ever noticed that that NEVER, EVER works with women? Name ONE time that it has worked for you! Dumb@ss.

I wasn't sure where to put this that it would be relevant. It's not a crime and it's not related to RTA but it's relevant to both.  A friend sent this to me yesterday and it encapsulates one of the big reasons why I quit riding RTA, and touches on things that some of my UO male brethern have expressed compeltely not understanding (and some have even accusing me of making this type of harassment up). This type of thing is what it's like to live like a woman, every day. While you may not witness it yourself, almost every woman I know experiences something like this or a more mild version (like the command to "SMILE!" when you pass a man on the street - which you would never hear a man saying to another man, or wolf whistling, or calling you hot mama or whatever else), almost every day.

 

http://unwinona.tumblr.com/post/30861660109/i-debated-whether-or-not-to-share-this-story

 

 

Oh, I know it's not made up. I've witnessed it first-hand enough times to know it's real. Sometimes alcohol is involved, but oftentimes not. Problem is, it works sometimes. It's especially bad if the first or second time a guy tries that in his life it ends up working. These predators treat it as a numbers game. They know that it doesn't work 9 times out of 10 and even are willing to put up with the inevitable macings, arrests and ass-kickings to use the "technique".

 

One time, I was working a really crappy manual labor job that had some borderline destitute co-workers (my first job after obtaining a second Master's by the way). I was one of the few people that worked that shift who owned a car, so everybody was always trying to jam into my car at lunch so that they wouldn't be stuck eating frozen TV dinners over and over. Well, we go get some Camp Washington Chili and the guy in the passenger seat says, "Watch this." and starts hitting on the girl working the drive through into the speaker before even seeing what she looks like. We pull up to get our food and he starts yelling "Give me your number. I'm going to f--- you! I'm going to f--- you!" It was REALLY embarrassing. The whole restaurant could hear him. The girl was spellbound; she had stars in her eyes. He got her number, we went back to work and and sure enough, after we got off work, he met her at that No Tell Motel that used to be up on the hill at the corner of MLK and Central Parkway and they had sex. They only stayed in contact for a few weeks after.

 

All these good young guys go to school, get well-paying, high-status jobs and spend money trying to get girls, then see troublemakers like him get lots of action and it screws them up badly. Of course, they don't yet realize yet that those sorts of relationships get old fast for most people -- but the damage to their egos has already been done.

 

The only women who go for that are wh*res. I know what hotel you're talking about; I lived in Mont Michelle Apts. near there. They have hourly rates. I can't imagine any women who isn't selling her body, even walking in there.

Have any of you guys ever had Radial Nerve Palsy? This is the craziest condition...

 

I woke up one morning a few weeks ago and couldn't open my hand or lift my wrist. My brain was telling my hand to do all of this bust the signal was lost... I was freaking out... how the f--k? I didn't do anything for this to happen...

 

It didn't go away after four days, so I went to the doctor. The doctor took an x-ray, nothing was broken so she told me it would have to be nerve damage. In my case, "Radial Nerve Palsy". It usually occurs when you fall asleep with your head on your arm. In most cases, it heals on its own but takes weeks, months or even a year to fully heal depending on if you irritated, damaged or killed nerves. I had no idea that pressure on your nerves for a few hours could do that.

 

It's been 2 weeks and there's no sign of recovery at all yet. I can't touch type anymore. It takes me an insane amount of time to get dressed. I can barely cook and do dishes. Everything just  takes... forever.

 

Like I was saying in my status update on Facebook, I have a whole new understanding and empathy for disabled people because of this little taste of it I just got.

 

You know what? This isn't really that big of a deal to me personally, I mean I can suck it up and deal with it for however long it takes but the problem... the REAL problem is at work. It's like everyone thinks I'm exaggerating about the gravity of the injury--especially after explaining how I got it, simply by sleeping in a bad position. You see.. I haven't been able to produce as fast as I used to. I can take all the jokes about how I look like I'm a retard, have cerebral palsy, or accusations about how I got this from jerking off too much with my left hand. It was actually a little funny at first but I can't stand -- and quite frankly, I'm not going to tolerate much longer, people complaining about my performance slipping after this. This is f-king ridiculous. I'M INJURED!! HELLO!? You think I asked for this? My left hand is useless. What, you think I wear a splint to make a f-king fashion statement? Everyone still expects me to do everything and do everything as quickly as I did before. I'm so sick of my boss and colleagues talking about my performance slipping. They only care so much because I'm a star player who picks up everyone's slack and makes everything run smoothly.

 

I just wish everyone could bear with me and try to maybe even help ME for once when I truly could use it. I don't think people realize this is real. It's like they think I'm lying or exaggerating about my hand or that I'm just using it as an excuse or something. Today, one of my bosses said, "Come on David, you're slipping! Courtney would have had this done an hour ago!" I said, "Courtney doesn't have one hand!" No one gets it, man.  I wish I could work faster! Trust me! Next time one of the higher-ups says something, I'm going to ask them if they would prefer me to take some time off and try to get on temporary disability because the fact is, I still get more done than most of the people I work with. I just haven't been at my peak performance.

 

Sorry, I need someone to rant to :(

 

That sucks, David.  I have a tendency to fall asleep on my arm, which predictably falls asleep, and always had an irrational fear that it would cause some sort of permanent damage.  Now I learn that fear isn't irrational.  Scary.  Wish I had some good advice for you on your work situation.

Thanks for the support <3

 

Yeah, I commonly fall asleep like that too, with the same fear. I think I just happened to apply a lot of pressure to just the right area or something. Usually when I do that, I wake up from the lack of circulation and I feel the blood rushing back to my hand and fall back asleep.

 

I'm so used to touch-typing and can't do it now. That, more than anything, is driving me nuts.

 

Do I have legal rights at work? I mean rights against being harassed about my performance while I'm injured or being expected to do certain tasks that I literally can't do or that physically hurt when I do it? No one thinks this sh!t is real and it's p!ssing me off. I want to go postal  :shoot:

Have any of you guys ever had Radial Nerve Palsy? This is the craziest condition...

 

I woke up one morning a few weeks ago and couldn't open my hand or lift my wrist. My brain was telling my hand to do all of this bust the signal was lost... I was freaking out... how the f--k? I didn't do anything for this to happen...

 

It didn't go away after four days, so I went to the doctor. The doctor took an x-ray, nothing was broken so she told me it would have to be nerve damage. In my case, "Radial Nerve Palsy". It usually occurs when you fall asleep with your head on your arm. In most cases, it heals on its own but takes weeks, months or even a year to fully heal depending on if you irritated, damaged or killed nerves. I had no idea that pressure on your nerves for a few hours could do that.

 

It's been 2 weeks and there's no sign of recovery at all yet. I can't touch type anymore. It takes me an insane amount of time to get dressed. I can barely cook and do dishes. Everything just  takes... forever.

 

Like I was saying in my status update on Facebook, I have a whole new understanding and empathy for disabled people because of this little taste of it I just got.

 

You know what? This isn't really that big of a deal to me personally, I mean I can suck it up and deal with it for however long it takes but the problem... the REAL problem is at work. It's like everyone thinks I'm exaggerating about the gravity of the injury--especially after explaining how I got it, simply by sleeping in a bad position. You see.. I haven't been able to produce as fast as I used to. I can take all the jokes about how I look like I'm a retard, have cerebral palsy, or accusations about how I got this from jerking off too much with my left hand. It was actually a little funny at first but I can't stand -- and quite frankly, I'm not going to tolerate much longer, people complaining about my performance slipping after this. This is f-king ridiculous. I'M INJURED!! HELLO!? You think I asked for this? My left hand is useless. What, you think I wear a splint to make a f-king fashion statement? Everyone still expects me to do everything and do everything as quickly as I did before. I'm so sick of my boss and colleagues talking about my performance slipping. They only care so much because I'm a star player who picks up everyone's slack and makes everything run smoothly.

 

I just wish everyone could bear with me and try to maybe even help ME for once when I truly could use it. I don't think people realize this is real. It's like they think I'm lying or exaggerating about my hand or that I'm just using it as an excuse or something. Today, one of my bosses said, "Come on David, you're slipping! Courtney would have had this done an hour ago!" I said, "Courtney doesn't have one hand!" No one gets it, man.  I wish I could work faster! Trust me! Next time one of the higher-ups says something, I'm going to ask them if they would prefer me to take some time off and try to get on temporary disability because the fact is, I still get more done than most of the people I work with. I just haven't been at my peak performance.

 

Sorry, I need someone to rant to :(

 

 

do you have a doctor on site.  There are roller bars that your office can buy to help you type. 

Isn't that what happened to Eddie Money? (I think he passed out drunk and did the same thing to his leg.

 

In any regard, you absolutely have rights at work. In fact, your employer has an obligation to provide you with the necessary tools to allow you to do your job. If you can't type, maybe they can put speech recognition software on your computer, or like MTS said, provide you with some aids to allow you to complete your tasks.

 

Your HR department will have the appropriate info to help facilitate this.

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Thanks for the support <3

 

Yeah, I commonly fall asleep like that too, with the same fear. I think I just happened to apply a lot of pressure to just the right area or something. Usually when I do that, I wake up from the lack of circulation and I feel the blood rushing back to my hand and fall back asleep.

 

I'm so used to touch-typing and can't do it now. That, more than anything, is driving me nuts.

 

Do I have legal rights at work? I mean rights against being harassed about my performance while I'm injured or being expected to do certain tasks that I literally can't do or that physically hurt when I do it? No one thinks this sh!t is real and it's p!ssing me off. I want to go postal  :shoot:

 

Have any of you guys ever had Radial Nerve Palsy? This is the craziest condition...

 

I woke up one morning a few weeks ago and couldn't open my hand or lift my wrist. My brain was telling my hand to do all of this bust the signal was lost... I was freaking out... how the f--k? I didn't do anything for this to happen...

 

It didn't go away after four days, so I went to the doctor. The doctor took an x-ray, nothing was broken so she told me it would have to be nerve damage. In my case, "Radial Nerve Palsy". It usually occurs when you fall asleep with your head on your arm. In most cases, it heals on its own but takes weeks, months or even a year to fully heal depending on if you irritated, damaged or killed nerves. I had no idea that pressure on your nerves for a few hours could do that.

 

It's been 2 weeks and there's no sign of recovery at all yet. I can't touch type anymore. It takes me an insane amount of time to get dressed. I can barely cook and do dishes. Everything just  takes... forever.

 

Like I was saying in my status update on Facebook, I have a whole new understanding and empathy for disabled people because of this little taste of it I just got.

 

You know what? This isn't really that big of a deal to me personally, I mean I can suck it up and deal with it for however long it takes but the problem... the REAL problem is at work. It's like everyone thinks I'm exaggerating about the gravity of the injury--especially after explaining how I got it, simply by sleeping in a bad position. You see.. I haven't been able to produce as fast as I used to. I can take all the jokes about how I look like I'm a retard, have cerebral palsy, or accusations about how I got this from jerking off too much with my left hand. It was actually a little funny at first but I can't stand -- and quite frankly, I'm not going to tolerate much longer, people complaining about my performance slipping after this. This is f-king ridiculous. I'M INJURED!! HELLO!? You think I asked for this? My left hand is useless. What, you think I wear a splint to make a f-king fashion statement? Everyone still expects me to do everything and do everything as quickly as I did before. I'm so sick of my boss and colleagues talking about my performance slipping. They only care so much because I'm a star player who picks up everyone's slack and makes everything run smoothly.

 

I just wish everyone could bear with me and try to maybe even help ME for once when I truly could use it. I don't think people realize this is real. It's like they think I'm lying or exaggerating about my hand or that I'm just using it as an excuse or something. Today, one of my bosses said, "Come on David, you're slipping! Courtney would have had this done an hour ago!" I said, "Courtney doesn't have one hand!" No one gets it, man.  I wish I could work faster! Trust me! Next time one of the higher-ups says something, I'm going to ask them if they would prefer me to take some time off and try to get on temporary disability because the fact is, I still get more done than most of the people I work with. I just haven't been at my peak performance.

 

Sorry, I need someone to rant to :(

 

 

Almost everybody who works a blue collar production job in Columbus is bitter as hell since we're such a white collar city. You gotta keep that in mind when working them. Use those college-learned PR skills to smooth things over with those cranky South Siders.

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I found this very funny for some reason...must be the lack of sleep..

 

 

So I recently got a hoax message on fb from a former hs teacher

 

 

 

But it has good intentions, no?

That's a hoax message? I got that from someone on FB.

That's a hoax message? I got that from someone on FB.

Yeah it started about 2 weeks ago

I don't get it.  What's it supposed to do?

Some of them don't do anything except get gullible people up in a lather over nothing. I have a few acquaintances who forward to me every alarmist thing, including some that are technically completely implausible, that they read on the internet. Some people with nothing better to do just like to start rumors and hoaxes to see how far they will spread.

It will cause you to no longer see their comments and "likes" in your stream or whatever the hell FB calls it. It doesn't solve the problem brought up in the first paragraph. You'd need to change a whole host of other settings to achieve what they're supposedly asking. It's practically impossible and FB has no interest in providing such a service. Should probably just be pen pals.

Some of them don't do anything except get gullible people up in a lather over nothing. I have a few acquaintances who forward to me every alarmist thing, including some that are technically completely implausible, that they read on the internet. Some people with nothing better to do just like to start rumors and hoaxes to see how far they will spread.

 

And this is why Google+ is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than facebook.

^ I actually used the 'hangouts' feature last night to video conference w/ a couple friends back in NY last night. Works pretty well, and it was neat to be able to talk to more than one person at a time.

 

I think Google+ benefit to me is the one thing they're trying to change, i.e. there's very few people I know personally on the site, so I use it more like I do Twitter, to follow interesting people / media / companies, and read about things I don't get out of traditional media. I think if everyone I knew was on, posting the same nonsense they do on FB, I wouldn't like it as much.

I'm so tired of peoples 'agendas' on FB. It drives me nuts. The worst is bored middle-age people, particularly housewives or the unemployed. I've deleted most of those people except I can't really do that with relatives--I guess that wouldn't be right.

 

Do any of you guys have to deal with that too?

 

All these lame agendas... people are obsessed with spreading awareness for things that are kinda trivial or don't even make sense (in the case of the conspiracy theorists.) It's like they need it to help define themselves.

 

I have an aunt and her agenda is animal rights. My news feed gets blown up by people like her. In her case it's sharing news articles about animal that were tortured or something. The background on her profile page is a damn advertisement for a local missing dog - with a picture and contact info in hopes of its retrieval. She blows up my news feed with all these graphics with cute puppies or graphics with captions about how Pitbulls are great pets, it's the owner's fault, blah blah blah.

 

Then you have, like Ian said, the parents who constantly post pictures of their new-borns (hell, even ultrasound photos - YAWN.) When school started earlier this month all the mothers were posting up pics of their kids heading off on their first day of school. Why do people expect all their friends on FB to hold the same level of excitement, interest or pride or whatever when it comes to stuff like that?

 

The lame graphics have seriously got to stop. The pictures with captions. There's just too many and because it is so easy to share what someone put up, you get more than one of your friends posting the same lame captioned graphic.

 

I don't know, maybe it's just me and the people I have to put up with but FB sure isn't what it used to be. It definitely wasn't as trashy back in '06 when I joined. People didn't use it so much to escalate drama, air out dirty laundry, get info on people to spread gossip or any other malicious intent.

 

I think I've spent probably 2 hours deleting over 100 people lately who at one point I went ahead and accepted their request just to appease them but went on to just irritate me.

^ I actually used the 'hangouts' feature last night to video conference w/ a couple friends back in NY last night. Works pretty well, and it was neat to be able to talk to more than one person at a time.

 

I think Google+ benefit to me is the one thing they're trying to change, i.e. there's very few people I know personally on the site, so I use it more like I do Twitter, to follow interesting people / media / companies, and read about things I don't get out of traditional media. I think if everyone I knew was on, posting the same nonsense they do on FB, I wouldn't like it as much.

I love the hangout feature.  My grandfather is the king of hangouts.  He doesn't use the phone, he invites you to a hangout.  He is off the chain with those things.  The kids use it all the time to talk to one another.  Even during the day, when the kids come home from school they will video with their parents.

 

I also love Google's Party Mode picture service.

 

I don't know, maybe it's just me and the people I have to put up with but FB sure isn't what it used to be. It definitely wasn't as trashy back in '06 when I joined. People didn't use it so much to escalate drama, air out dirty laundry, get info on people to spread gossip or any other malicious intent.

 

We might be seeing the life cycle of a social networking site emerging. It's all fun and games until the lameos show up.

Exactly. I was watching on TV-- I guess Justin Timberlake bought Myspace?! He's trying to revive it... I think we all know how that's going to play out. Especially if we all would be forced to be his friend, as was the case with Tom.

Justin Timberlake is the front man for a company that bought MySpace, but he does have some sort of minority stake in the business. Supposedly people that have been pitched say it's not as totally horrible as you might expect, but still it's a horrible market to try and get into.

i heard the myspace is actually making a small rebound recently because the youngs have bailed out and left the facebook to the oldens. i seriously doubt it could ever comeback and overtake the twitter tho, the twitter is just way too popular.

 

 

You can always make it so that people's updates don't show up in your news feed.

You can always make it so that people's updates don't show up in your news feed.

 

Yes, but its so much more difficult than google+.  In addition, Google+ mobile app is killer.  Google+ is handsdown a better social network than Facebook.  Quantity doesn't equal quality in this case.

I'd like to ask what you guys would like to see on your feeds, or whatever on FB. I'm laye to the party, but it seems like the kid pics and the recycled jokes have merely supplanted the drunken party pics from 2005. Both get are tiresome in their own right. So what's in everyone's ideal news feed?

"So what's in everyone's ideal news feed?"

 

Photos of special events are great, but preferably taken with something other than the typical smartphone. For god's sake, we now have a majority of the populace who think grainy and poorly lit images are fine, that people having eyes that glow like a raccoon in headlights is perfectly okay, and that applying some wackadoodle sepia/insta filter makes their image profound.

I'm so tired of peoples 'agendas' on FB. It drives me nuts. The worst is bored middle-age people, particularly housewives or the unemployed. I've deleted most of those people except I can't really do that with relatives--I guess that wouldn't be right.

 

Do any of you guys have to deal with that too?

 

All these lame agendas... people are obsessed with spreading awareness for things that are kinda trivial or don't even make sense (in the case of the conspiracy theorists.) It's like they need it to help define themselves.

 

I have an aunt and her agenda is animal rights. My news feed gets blown up by people like her. In her case it's sharing news articles about animal that were tortured or something. The background on her profile page is a damn advertisement for a local missing dog - with a picture and contact info in hopes of its retrieval. She blows up my news feed with all these graphics with cute puppies or graphics with captions about how Pitbulls are great pets, it's the owner's fault, blah blah blah.

 

Then you have, like Ian said, the parents who constantly post pictures of their new-borns (hell, even ultrasound photos - YAWN.) When school started earlier this month all the mothers were posting up pics of their kids heading off on their first day of school. Why do people expect all their friends on FB to hold the same level of excitement, interest or pride or whatever when it comes to stuff like that?

 

The lame graphics have seriously got to stop. The pictures with captions. There's just too many and because it is so easy to share what someone put up, you get more than one of your friends posting the same lame captioned graphic.

 

I don't know, maybe it's just me and the people I have to put up with but FB sure isn't what it used to be. It definitely wasn't as trashy back in '06 when I joined. People didn't use it so much to escalate drama, air out dirty laundry, get info on people to spread gossip or any other malicious intent.

 

I think I've spent probably 2 hours deleting over 100 people lately who at one point I went ahead and accepted their request just to appease them but went on to just irritate me.

 

Anyone that makes their child their profile picture receives an automatic de-friend from me.  I've defriended 2 cousins and 1 friend from college for this.  One of them emailed me on the issue, asking if something was wrong.  I told her the last thing I want people to see on my timeline in the Friends box is a picture of little kid.  That's just creepy.  No one will understand that this is actually my cousin's child.  Facebook only shows a name and a picture. 

 

 

I don't mind bad photography.  Though I don't like extremely close zoomed in photography.  Amazes me how people's fat faces will sometimes fill the entire frame.

 

"So what's in everyone's ideal news feed?"

 

Photos of special events are great, but preferably taken with something other than the typical smartphone. For god's sake, we now have a majority of the populace who think grainy and poorly lit images are fine, that people having eyes that glow like a raccoon in headlights is perfectly okay, and that applying some wackadoodle sepia/insta filter makes their image profound.

 

+1 and I ain't talkin' Google.

^CDM- Your ideal would be nothing but old music videos from the 90s on youtube.

 

David, I kind of like the lame-O posts they make me feel good about myself. I haven't totally gone lame yet. I think peoplr censure themselves a lot more than they used too on FB. Especially once you get out of school.

 

I am in my early 30s, I noticed one thing since right now a lot of our friends are having kids. My friends are unattractive. Boy I have seen a lot of ugly baby pictures in the last few years. My friends are apparently not attractive on the whole.

 

 

LOL!!!

^^Was I drunk this morning when I wrote that? Jeez. English is my first language, although you would never have guessed it based on that post. In my defense I am an engineer. Whatever that is worth...

No vertical videos in news feeds! If a video comes out vertical just can it. I don't what the content is; it could be tomorrow's winning Powerball numbers and I still won't watch it if it's vertical.

^CDM- Your ideal would be nothing but old music videos from the 90s on youtube.

 

David, I kind of like the lame-O posts they make me feel good about myself. I haven't totally gone lame yet. I think peoplr censure themselves a lot more than they used too on FB. Especially once you get out of school.

 

I am in my early 30s, I noticed one thing since right now a lot of our friends are having kids. My friends are unattractive. Boy I have seen a lot of ugly baby pictures in the last few years. My friends are apparently not attractive on the whole.

 

 

 

 

I was talking about this at the bar tonight.  While it's really time in my age group to start having kids, there was some of my high school friends that had children very early on.  The girls really let themselves go.  Whatever, as long as they are happy I guess.  But I've noticed it's a trend with people that really didn't go to college and just stayed back in the small town.  I mean there really isn't much else to do except get married and raise a family.  Thank God I went to a great school that forced me to explore a bigger world out there.  Settling down can wait.  And I want to be sure I'm making enough money to take care of my kids.  Seems like 99% of my friends from college agree with that.

 

 

I've noticed my friends had kids in waves. There were a few "surprises" when we were in college, there were a bunch all at the same time in our early 20s, then a bunch more in our late 20s/early 30s (when my kids came), then another batch came around 35 as people started getting scared that they were running out of time.

 

As far as ugly baby pictures, I'm of the opinion that every infant (except your own) looks like either Ghandi, Winston Churchill, or boiled chicken. It takes a few months for a kid to turn cute. (Based on my kids' baby pictures I had a boiled chicken then a churchill.) What's sad is after a few months when some friend posts pictures of their kids and I really want to ask who the parents are because the kid is so much better looking than its parents.

^let me add to that..We haven't gone totally lame despite having 3 kids. We had kids early, it was  oops and then we just ran with it. Things have worked out fine. The ones that really didn't do anything too exciting with their lives in their 20's and now are having kids. They are painfully lame....

 

Not that there is anything wrong with that.....

We had kids early, it was  oops and then we just ran with it.

It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye gets pregnant.  :-D

^haha. So true.