What I Did On My Blogidays (Continued)
January 15, 2008
You know you’ve been blogging too much when you get on the bus and sit next to someone you’ve never spoken to before and you get out a book and he says:
“No laptop today, then?”
I laughed and said: “Taking a break. Too much work. Resolutions.”
It seemed I’d also given up using proper sentences and instead was talking like incapacitated superheroes used to in comics right before they opened a can of whoop-ass.
They don’t do that now – superheroes are much more eloquent. I miss the whole thing of: “… MUST FIGHT… BUT … TOO …- STUPID…”
Now it’s: “I SUMMON THE POWER OF FLAMOID TO DESTORY THE EVIL SOUSAPHONE WARLORDS.”
They probably turn their noses up now at canned whoop-ass, too. In all likelihood they get their whoop-ass flown in and have it prepared in a wrap with porcini mushrooms and raspberry coulis.
Meanwhile, back on the bus…
“Start as you mean to go on, I say,” he said, which was obvious because I had finished talking, such as it was.
I went back to my book, which I’ll tell you about another time, because we’re all out of Tuesday. Tomorrow I’ll do the My Week In Media meme that Meg tagged me with. It’s from the first week of New Year, so, it’s somewhat backdated, but if I’d have been posting it’s what I would have written.
Also – Facebook friends: Please stop trying to get me to add funwall, video galleries, happy cams, widget heaven, etc. If you want to send me something, send me an email. It doesn’t get any better than the sneezing panda, and that was 2006, OK?
17 comments
You are SO 2008 now.
Do you use Firefox, Cliff? If so, install Greasemonkey and then this script. Not only will those application invitations disappear by magic, it will also automatically block the applications.
Thanks Pete, I’ll give that a try.
Hey! Who’s this writing on my Funwall? Not once, but TWICE?! Must be another CLiff Jones!
Turncoat.
That was the old Cliff. I think facebook needs to calm down with its applications.
I definitely agrre- the problem is, those applications don’t cpme from Facebook, but rather third party developers. I don’t know what they get out of it but most of them require that you invite at least 20 friends to share in the app before you get to see your ‘results’, so it’s just a crock. I’ve lost interest in Facebook.
The developers are all selling advertising space on their applications, that’s why they want you to invite as many people as possible.
I’m seriously considering total withdrawal from Facebook, I’m not sure what I get out of it that I didn’t before, it just adds a complicated social dimension to my life when it needs to be simpler.
“… MUST FIGHT… BUT … TOO …- STUPID…”
I love that. It’s great to have my almost-daily TIT back, too.
yes, I love TiTs.
Ah, Pete’s Facebook-Foxing Masterclass. He rocks. Pete! I said you ROCK.
I can’t use Firefox on my Mac so I have to block every application I’m invited to join. There is a certain grim satisfaction in watching the list of blocked applications get longer and longer and longer.
Katy – Why can’t you use Firefox? I can use it on my still water-damaged macbook. I’ve installed those scripts above and they work great… Thanks Pete!
All in a days work, dudes.
I sense that total Facebook withdrawal may be on the horizon for me, too. I’m starting to get “social network” malaise too. I deleted my Twitter account last week, for instance.
Yeah, it’s rubbish. I mean think facebook is great, but I want it on my terms. Same with all media, actually, and I don’t see why that’s unreasonable.
Social Network Malaise. SnM. Just saying.
“Must resist… puns…but… too… strong… Errgggghhh!”
I’m facebooked out too (but I stole a couple of towels). Too many people you don’t really know, sending stuff you don’t really want, about things you don’t really care about, in applications that don’t always (or only sometimes) work, which are only intended to make you feel “left out” if you don’t accept. Not good.
There might be hope on the horizon. A recent update to Facebook allows you to group your contacts into lists. I’ve created one called “Plonk” in the hope that one day they’ll allow you to check a box saying “Ignore all status updates and application messages from everyone on this list.”
It mainly contains people that I went to school with.
Gah, I just used the phrase “on the horizon” in two successive comments (three, now). What’s wrong with me today?
Leave a comment. Play nice. I will turn this blog around.