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EVERYBODY DOES IT | I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that every time Facebook updates its home page it significantly affects my life.
Like all updates and improvements I recognize their intent is to better serve their users and highlighting the statuses and posts of the friends you communicate with most frequently as your primary News Feed, seems to make sense on the surface level. But it also introduces a whole host of other problems. Not only is the sad and surprising realization of whom my Facebook world has been narrowed down to troublesome, as well as the relatively limited flow of information, but also the knowledge that any of my late-night errant updates will now suffer the sober scrutiny of my ‘closest’ friends the following day.
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NOT SAFE FOR FACEBOOK Nothing says, “Good morning” like a bit of porn on the Facebook, don’t you think? For a few hours last week a person listing him/herself as Jimmy Eddeh posted a pornographic picture as his/her profile picture before the FB police shut it down. We took a few screen grabs before the profile was removed. So, although it’s not clear, who Jimmy Eddeh is and why he or she is posting homo-porn-pics of BJ’s on FB, what is clear is that a majority of Eddeh’s “friends” have washboard abs. Sigh.
Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.
NSFW SCREEN GRAB POST JUMP.
Right after I check my email every morning, I check my Facebook profile. If there’s nothing new — No events, no updates, no potentially criminal photographs tagged of me or my friends — I log off.
About an hour later, depending on how my day is going, I’ll repeat that same process untill my eyes can no longer suffer the LCD screen and I pass out in bed (my computer still on…it’s glow hovering over me…)
A few nameless friends of mine recently added the Facebook for cell phone feature. So that they can receive status updates on their iPhones, or via text, or osmosis, or whatever, while they wait in line at Duane Reade.
Facebook has created an entire new level of relationship status. There are Facebook friends who I’m actually friends with. Those with whom I share face-to-face meals with and enjoy 3-dimensional cocktails and conversations with. Then there are the other Facebook friends. You know. Those people you went to high school with, who you aren’t really friends with, but since they sent you a friend request, you now stalk every so often, but mostly, you don’t care too much. Yes. Them.
Dog Fight — For Democrats choosing a nominee has been nothing if not a hot mess — with Hillary and Barack tearing at each other’s exhausted limbs amidst those blood stained blue and white picket signs. Business as usual right? So, with all that’s going wrong with our political system, I was super stoked when my BFF (he doesn’t know it yet) and model, Ronnie Kroell, posted pictures of his gorgeous smiling face next to Bill and Hill on his Facebook page. Fingers crossed that Ronnie will call me tonight urging me to vote.
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