"Membership in the family of God is neither inconsequential or something to be casually ignored. The church is God's agenda for the world. Jesus said, "I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it." The church is indestructable and will exist for eternity. It will outlive this universe, and so will your role in it."
- Rick Warren
Monday, September 26, 2011
. . . thank God that your life has so little hardship that a change in a social networking interface can hold your attention.
Also, to commemorate our chronic lack of posting, here's a picture of a monkey.
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Comments on "If You Hate the New Facebook and are Complaining About It":
3. Bill
- 09/26/2011 9:52 pm CDT
For what it's worth . . . probably not much, but now that you've made me feel like cr@p . . .
Even if I wasn't a believer I'd probably feel this way about all the FB whining. As an observer of our weird, 21st century culture, I do think there's something interesting and troubling about the "problems" most of us have.
But my intent was to be light-hearted (the picture of a monkey kinda was a giveaway :-)
8. jez
- 09/28/2011 5:24 am CDT
Most of the facebook complaints are lodged on facebook itself, because people tend to vent about tools while they are using them. At the moment you're using them, you might well talk at length about how "the wrench that Ikea supplied completely sucks" or "this new ratchet is way better than my old one!" but that absolutely doesn't mean the wrench is the most urgent problem in your life or that your new ratchet has replaced Jesus as the most important thing in your life. It's momentary.
(As a side note, IMO a tool has achieved perfection when it has become an extension of yourself, and you no longer notice it, contrary to the all but avowed aim of certain technologists to provoke a "wow that's awesome!" response wherever possible.)
I haven't met many people who talk much about facebook outside of facebook (aside from "I saw a funny thing on facebook..."). But if you look at a random person's wall, you'll find a disproportionate amount of comments about facebook, because that's the tool they're using at the time.
9. Bill
- 09/28/2011 5:30 am CDT
That's an excellent point, Jez. Very true.
Also - "IMO a tool has achieved perfection when it has become an extension of yourself, and you no longer notice it"
Well said!
10. Tony
- 09/28/2011 8:59 am CDT
oops. Facebook doesn't seem to be "free". We are paying customers. We're paying FB, Google and Apple our "private" information. So, we have a "right" to complain? Hmmmmm, food for thought.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2042573/Facebook-privacy-issues-Social-network-watching-youre-logged-out.html
"'We didn't mean to track you' says Facebook as social network giant admits to 'bugs' in new privacy row"
Facebook has admitted that it has been watching the web pages its members visit – even when they have logged out.
In its latest privacy blunder, the social networking site was forced to confirm that it has been constantly tracking its 750million users, even when they are using other sites.
We didn't mean to track you - liar, liar pants on fire.
11. Bill
- 09/28/2011 12:00 pm CDT
Tony
Great point. (On the side, I do want to point out that I never said people don't have the right to complain)
I long ago figured out that we are, in many ways, rats in the maze of market research for Google, Facebook and others. They make a lot of money off of watching us. Of course, the food pellets we get are so tasty, it gets kind of addicting :-)
You're correct. it's not really 'free"
Now Thinklings . . . Thinklings is free!
12. Tony
- 09/28/2011 2:08 pm CDT
Now Thinklings . . . Thinklings is free
Except for the Captcha :D Sorry, I had to get that in there. It seems like that thing gets tougher and tougher to "pass" as time goes on - lol.
"I never said people don't have the right to complain"
Yes, indeed. It is interesting how other idea's that I've read a bit earlier on the Internet get "interposed" with your simple blog post. Your title with "Facebook" and "complaining" as keywords brought about recent articles that I read how persons shouldn't complain about the FB changes because it is a "free" service. Thus my less than focused comment. Also, it was one of those "I don't have my own blog" to post about this FB "atrocity" against mankind and embedding it within your somewhat on-topic subject seemed satisfactory for 2 minutes anyway :)
Anyway, keep up the good work. I just got caught up on the Gungor post comments (I can't believe I missed this). Good discussion.
and now the dreaded Captcha...There I did it :D
13. Bill
- 09/28/2011 2:31 pm CDT
Heh.
And after all that, the spambots are still getting through the Captcha on another Bloo site. I'm working on a better, Bloo-specific version (reCaptcha is a google service and evidently they are starting to dope it out).
It's good to know someone else understands the Facebook menace :-)
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