CSotD: You’re gonna like this one
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Jen Sorensen hits the mark with today's Slowpoke.
Being on Facebook has been interesting. I've made new friends and connected with some old ones and come across things I'd have never found on my own. And I've learned to "hide" all the posts about stupid and annoying games without hiding the people who post them, because I understand that there are people who are just there to play and have fun. And I wouldn't have friended them in the first place if they didn't occasionally have news that I wanted to hear.
But Slowpoke raises the issue of the latest stupid and annoying thing Facebook is putting in our Faces, which isn't a game: This thing of following you around the Internet, talking over your shoulder, posting who "likes" what on various pages. Like the friends who announce every meal they consume, Facebook just doesn't seem to know what's interesting to other people and what isn't, or when to back off and leave me alone.
Facebook doesn't understand that working in the same office doesn't make you best buddies, that living next door doesn't mean you're best friends. Facebook is like Rick Moranis in "Ghostbusters," popping out of his apartment and following Sigourney Weaver to her door every time she gets off the elevator.
In short, Facebook is becoming a noodge.
And I've tried hiding the annoying things Facebook does, but it just doesn't seem to get the message.
Look, Facebook, I like you. Even though I know that you're a gossip and you like to tell advertisers things about me, I don't mind. Whatever I say on Facebook is open to the world. But I don't spend my entire day on Facebook, and some of the other things I do don't have anything to do with you. You really need to just sit over there and be quiet until I ask you a question.
Don't make me unfriend you.
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