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Preemptively Hating the New Facebook “Timeline”

September 24, 2011 1 comment

Facebook released a video with a preview of the new “timeline” profiles to be released… they keep changing the date.  They last said Wednesday for beta, but other sources have been pushing the date back.

The tag says “Tell your life story with a new kind of profile.”

But I don’t want to tell my life story with a new of profile.  Because my life has largely been boring if you don’t count the drugs.  Most people are insanely boring.  When everyone you kinda talked to at a party that one time and was kinda interesting has their own page of individuality and stream-of-conscious thoughts, you stop paying attention to everyone.

Apparently, the trending thing in social media is “timelines.” Twitter has a “timeline.”  You know how often I look at Twitter?  Once a day.  And I manually click on the comedians I like  to see if they have funny one-liners and that’s it.  If I leave the window open for 5 minutes, 2o people will post 100 tweets I don’t give a shit about.  Sorry @BarackObama.

I associate the word “timeline” with crappy 7th grade history class projects where the hippie teacher was too lazy to actually grade people on what they learned so they graded you on who could print the best pictures from the Internet and glue it to a date on a posterboard.  Nobody care about what happened to you in 1993 unless you invented the cure for cancer or did something hilarious that they can use it now to embarrass you.

Because too much shit has happened in history at every moment in time.  Literally, there are 7 Billion on this planet and each one has shit more than once.  And then they have babies and pets and they shit.  How many trillion shits is that over time?

If you want me to pay attention to you, make a blog, say funny things, and I’ll bookmark you and read you when I want to.

People on SodaHead hate the changes that were already made. Infographic in the link.

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$16 DOJ Muffin Story is a Lie and other Bulleted Randomness

September 22, 2011 Leave a comment

Mother Jones doesn’t like dubious math:

So did DOJ really pay $16 for muffins? Of course not. In fact, it’s obvious that someone quite carefully calculated the amount they were allowed to spend and then gave the hotel a budget. The hotel agreed, but for some reason decided to divide up the charges into just a few categories instead of writing a detailed invoice for every single piece of food they provided.
  • I don’t like the new toolbar at the top that WordPress implemented for its bloggers.  I felt like the last one was better organized.  This one breaks down links into too many sub-categories and some of them are redundant.
  • Anyone who remembers Myspace, i.e. over 21, remember Tom?  He’s got a Facebook.  And he’s apparently a Facebook corporate whore now.
  • Speaking of FB, it keeps making chatty noises at me when I’m not actually getting IMs.  I’m not sure what it means.  Is this the side news feed thing that everyone thinks is useless?  Whatever it is, it’s annoying.
  • I will not be live blogging the debate tonight, mostly because Fox says it’s going to be 2 hours long and I like not sitting on my ass for 2 hours.  It’s 9:30 and mostly it’s just been talking point after talking point, “You’re book lies!,” and a classic Fox-noxious crowd.

◦Who the fuck is Gary Johnson?