She was going to cheat on you anyway, if you can't recognize that you're an idiot.
If you're wife is cheating on you, your relationship is the problem, not facebook. Whats next, you'll blame Motel 6 for the fact that your wife slept with him cause they provided a bed for them to use while you were off dicking around on Facebook and ignoring her?
Or you could just use a standard IM protocol that everyone supports and encourage your friends to do the same so no one is tied to a specific provider.
Oh thats right... facebook claimed they were going to join the XMPP world... what happened to that again?
As it has been legally supported by court rulings that it's okay to use that information for those purposes (despite the fact that it hinders certain constitutional amendments, the separation of personal and professional life and more),
Actually, any company is free to use the information anyway they see fit. Show me a case that was tried and a ruling issued to the contrary. No, settlements don't count.
If your stupid enough to post information that may show you in a bad light on a public bulletin board, companies have every right to avoid your stupid ass.
If you aren't smart enough to keep your private life PRIVATE, why the fuck would I or anyone else want to deal with you? You think stupidity should be rewarded or something? We won't hire people who have a facebook profile that we can find. Take me to court and sue me, I dare you. The separation of personal and professional life ended when you made personal public. You made that choice, not me. You live with the results of your decisions, not me.
Every site changes, and in social networking those changes are always to bring in more people... and the end result is the end up ruining it by trying to serve the lowest common denominator... which NO ONE ANYWHERE actually wants. MySpace, Livejournal, and Facebook have all done the same thing. Facebook is simply the latest one in the chain, thinking its different shows your lack of understanding.
Let me give you a hint, unless the person is blind or not bothering to actually read your letters, they know you didn't write them.
Any printer thats going to make those letters look like what was scanned is not going to leave an impression on the paper like a pen or pencil would. Also all the letters will always look the same each time they are used, which means the flow will be obviously broken because you don't connect letters in the same way every time, regardless of it being cursive or print, humans naturally pick up on the unnatural perfect repetitiveness of such things.
Scammers/Spammers spend FAR time trying to send you this type of fake letter than you ever are, and you can spot them a mile away as being fake, even when they go the extra mile of trying to fake a real signature on top of the other fake handwriting in a different color.
Short version:
You aren't fooling anyone with eyes good enough to actually read the letter themselves.
Works just fine, it throws them out if they aren't flat enough and they get manually sorted.
FAR FAR weirder things are seen on any given day at any normal post office.
Many government offices still wax seal certain things that get sent through the mail. Its more for tradition than security, but none the less the post office deals with them just fine.
Really? I seem to remember hearing this several times in the past.
Of course what that actually means is that this is a story about some other way of calculating things that shows them losing users in a new and exciting way thats not entirely unlike the previous way they calculated it.
They'll talk to them when they get home? Or they'll call them on the phone?
You do realize people survived and actually communicated with people BEFORE facebook right?
Get this shocker, people (that includes parents and daughters since you seem to not know much about the world) actually were able to communicate without the Internet!
Want to really blow your mind... people can communicate with out telephones or electronics at ALL!
Before you could type, you could write letters! It was fucking CRAZY back then.
Before all that though, if you want to go REALLY REALLY REALLY fucking old school and show how leet you are...
You could just walk into the same fucking room and have an actual conversation with the person.
It blows my mind that anyone would even make such a utterly retarded statement.
How about they're family members and are mortally hurt if you don't friend them?
Well, if they were mortally hurt, then now they are dead and its no longer an issue.
But... since you were probably exaggerating then the proper response is to encourage them to seek counselling, they have self-worth issues.
If someone is hurt because you won't 'friend them on facebook' they have issues way deeper than you can solve by friending them.
Blocking status updates is for people without a backbone. Be honest, you'll get a lot more respect from people. You might think they never will find out, but the reality of it is they already know, you've probably told them about doing that themselves, which already showed them you don't have the courage or respect for them to be honest about it. Instead you'd rather lie because its easier on you.
Grow a spine, and stop being so two-faced and untrustable. Respect is far more powerful than your facebook friends list, especially when all of them know better than to trust anything you say because you're probably just saying it to their face and doing/saying something entirely different behind their back.
Now, to me that seems pretty odd, why so many, why May
Cause its warm and they can just go outside and see their actual friends in real life since the weather is considerably nicer than just a few months ago?
Of course, that very same pattern is seen in almost every business, hence why some businesses have busy seasons in the summer, and some have busy winter seasons.
Though it really is not a tool. Tools are used for doing useful work. Facebook is a cross between a game and jerking yourself off.
I disagree, I've found both gaming and jerking off to be more useful and enjoyable than facebook, and I mean like jerking off with toothpaste as a lubricant and playing ET on the Atari 2600 are more enjoyable than Facebook in some not so insignificant ways.
I have lost a few friends because of facebook and twitter
They weren't your friends.
Actually, its unlikely you know what a friend ACTUALLY is.
People on facebook call acquaintances 'friends'. Just because you know someone and you've had a conversation with them once or twice and you happen to share something in common... that doesn't make you friends.
People only have a small group of friends, less than 10 in real life, generally less than 5 if you exclude family members. If you think you have more, its extremely unlikely you know the difference between a friend and an acquaintance.
Sadly I have a couple friends where pretty much the only way to communicate with them is with it
Wrong. They aren't your friends. If they were, they'd communicate with you. If they don't have the time to write a letter to you (or an email) directly, they aren't your friends. You simply aren't that important to them (compared to whatever/wherever they are now). Maybe in the future, you'll be friends again, but right now, you're old acquaintances.
No young person 'fails' to grasp email, its just that you aren't important enough for them to email. If you happen to be handy and extremely easy to send a one line message too... well then they'll send you a random thought when they notice you on facebook. Thats not communication. Thats not friendship. Thats not socializing.
If you weren't so dependent on approval from others, you wouldn't use Facebook now.
You have low self-esteem, so you've lowered your standards to the point that if someone sends you a random thought on facebook you think of them as a friend. This indicates that your ACTUAL problem is you have no friends and you need to stop fucking around on facebook and get out and meet some people in the real world.
You've never ran into the "friend of a friend guilt" trip, I see.
Actually, its more like we're not all push overs and followers with no ability to think for ourselves.
You sir, are a follower. I'd also be willing to bet you care about how many facebook friends you have, to show your social status as having a bunch of friends.
Is it really hard to say 'I don't friend everyone and I'm not friending you because you're fucking annoying me about friending you'.
Do you depend so much on everyone else liking you that you are unable to like yourself and care about what YOU like?
If you have a problem with 'friending peer pressure' you really need to get some counselling. I'm dead serious, not trying to be an insulting ass like the rest of my post. If it bothers you that much, you need medication. You don't actually need other peoples approval to be happy in life, stop being so concerned with it and facebook will be far less of a problem for you.
Of course, the sad thing is, Facebook is a product of the problem not the actual problem itself. People such as yourself with low self esteem and the need to please others in order to feel value and self worth. You need to learn to live without depending on others for approval and how to like/love yourself before you start worrying about your social network. Once you fix your own issues, your social issues will fall by the wayside as you realize your friends are more like leeches taking advantage of the fact that your self confidence issues make you think you aren't worthwhile without being able to show all your Facebook friends.
Let me give you a hint. No one, anywhere in the world has more than 10 friends (less than that really). You may have a bunch of people you like and hang out with once and a while see occasionally (or regularly like coworkers) that you wouldn't have a problem being friends with, but they are just acquaintances. For instance, when you go to a party, most of those people aren't your friends, so when they say why don't you friend me you say 'because we're aquantences, not friends, the only time I see you is at parties'
Its really not hard. You just needs some self-confidence/balls and a self-esteem boost.
The good news for you is, EVERYONE else on facebook is JUST as fucked up as you. They all have low self-esteem and self-confidence problems (regular users, not just random people who create an account and never look again)... so you're in good company. Well, okay, not everyone, the other group on Facebook is the group of scammers and manipulators taking advantage of people like yourself.
The problem with this retarded change in version numbers is that their target audeince isn't going to be affected by the version number game. We geeks don't give a fuck what the version number is, and we know you're bullshitting with the stupid version number increases. We all still know firefox is just as buggy, bloated and overall broken on 'version 5' as it was on version 4, except now there are a few NEW half implemented features that no one cares about and/or will never be finished properly.
All they are doing is pushing themselves further from the business environment and relegating themselves to more of a geek toy.
Mozilla has become Netscape. It is no longer useful. Just a bunch of over paid douche bags who sit around and write code they want to write rather than actually producing something useful.
Its too bad they didn't do a better job of cleaning house the last time netscape failed, looks like they left enough of the old guard that its happened again.
I don't want to hate Mozilla, but for fucks sake give me a little help here, Mozilla has turned into an example of how not to do it. Its as if their goal is to demonstrate all the wrong things to do when trying to produce a respectable high-end OSS application.
Aluminum cans have other uses besides exchange for money.
Aluminum cans can be used as tools for cutting, scooping, of course holding things and many other things I don't have on the top of my head.
Monopoly money and Pokeman cards can be used to play the games they came from, so they have value on their own.
Bitcoin has absolutely no use other than as a fiat currency.
The fact that they took bitcoins in the first place puts serious doubts into my mind about the understanding of technology at the EFF. Typically its clear they have a clue, however this is one of those moves that makes you wonder. Well not this one, this one makes sense. It was the accepting them in the first place part that boggles my mind.
*Mandate* that all carriers use a specific cell technology or implementation, and have absolutely no alternatives? Yeah. That's going to be just swell.
Yes, EXACTLY.
That doesn't prevent progress, it doesnt prevent new technology, it doesn't prevent competition, it just requires that everyone be on the same page.
It'll work out JUST fine as long as it was put in place and put the entire brunt of the pressure on the providers and not back down when they do their best to make it fail from the start.
It won't fail, the providers won't let it, they wont' throw away all that money just because they want to 'lock people in', the major carriers lose and gain from each other pretty much equally in general, even with all the bullshit they do to prevent it. Its not like people run from AT&T to T-Mobile because their phone will work there, most assume it won't so switching from AT&T to T-Mobile is no more attractive than switching to Verizon... of course, this is all because phones are locked to a fucking provider, even after the contract expires.
But, back to the point, rather than go out of business, verizon, at&t/mabell/tmobile, and all the rest would get with the program and make it work.
They'd kick and scream and tell us it was impossible... RIGHT UP to the point where customers started switching to something else... which is a major risk, as we may just find something completely better than the current carriers and dump them all together even if they change their minds and started putting effort into serving their customers.
We can control them, stop being such a pussy. The only reason it wouldn't work is because we let them tell us no. We won't of course, the instant gratification of cell phones pretty much has them in complete and total control til the end of human civilization or until someone else finds another fad for the idiots.
I live in America, use my cell phone daily and have travelled to Europe with it and never missed a beat.
Of course, my phone is a multiband GSM phone and not from of the carriers that still using something other than the rest of the world.
On of the reason I won't use Verizon is because I want my phone to work outside of the US, not because I do much travel outside the states (about 3 times in my life) but because I don't want to support someone who doesn't put effort into compatibility.
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If she was a nympho then he wouldn't be spending time on facebook ... unless its to talk to his gay friends.
Either way, he clearly doesn't rock.
Right, its facebooks fault your wife is a whore.
She was going to cheat on you anyway, if you can't recognize that you're an idiot.
If you're wife is cheating on you, your relationship is the problem, not facebook. Whats next, you'll blame Motel 6 for the fact that your wife slept with him cause they provided a bed for them to use while you were off dicking around on Facebook and ignoring her?
Or you could just use a standard IM protocol that everyone supports and encourage your friends to do the same so no one is tied to a specific provider.
Oh thats right ... facebook claimed they were going to join the XMPP world ... what happened to that again?
As it has been legally supported by court rulings that it's okay to use that information for those purposes (despite the fact that it hinders certain constitutional amendments, the separation of personal and professional life and more),
Actually, any company is free to use the information anyway they see fit. Show me a case that was tried and a ruling issued to the contrary. No, settlements don't count.
If your stupid enough to post information that may show you in a bad light on a public bulletin board, companies have every right to avoid your stupid ass.
If you aren't smart enough to keep your private life PRIVATE, why the fuck would I or anyone else want to deal with you? You think stupidity should be rewarded or something? We won't hire people who have a facebook profile that we can find. Take me to court and sue me, I dare you. The separation of personal and professional life ended when you made personal public. You made that choice, not me. You live with the results of your decisions, not me.
Every site changes, and in social networking those changes are always to bring in more people ... and the end result is the end up ruining it by trying to serve the lowest common denominator ... which NO ONE ANYWHERE actually wants. MySpace, Livejournal, and Facebook have all done the same thing. Facebook is simply the latest one in the chain, thinking its different shows your lack of understanding.
Tools don't dynamically reconfigure themselves without any user interaction to do something the user clearly never wanted to happen.
Facebook does. Often.
Its not a tool, its users are.
No, but from a practical perspective, people typically do one are the other, not both. Doing both is pretty rare.
The problem is that people drawn to social networking sites are generally those people that already have issues with social interaction.
push the power button, wait for ACPI shutdown.
alt-control-delete, and power off when the disks aren't mounted.
pull the power cord, you are using a journaled file system right?
Its a good thing you aren't a geek cause man you'd suck at it.
Let me give you a hint, unless the person is blind or not bothering to actually read your letters, they know you didn't write them.
Any printer thats going to make those letters look like what was scanned is not going to leave an impression on the paper like a pen or pencil would. Also all the letters will always look the same each time they are used, which means the flow will be obviously broken because you don't connect letters in the same way every time, regardless of it being cursive or print, humans naturally pick up on the unnatural perfect repetitiveness of such things.
Scammers/Spammers spend FAR time trying to send you this type of fake letter than you ever are, and you can spot them a mile away as being fake, even when they go the extra mile of trying to fake a real signature on top of the other fake handwriting in a different color.
Short version:
You aren't fooling anyone with eyes good enough to actually read the letter themselves.
Works just fine, it throws them out if they aren't flat enough and they get manually sorted.
FAR FAR weirder things are seen on any given day at any normal post office.
Many government offices still wax seal certain things that get sent through the mail. Its more for tradition than security, but none the less the post office deals with them just fine.
Really? I seem to remember hearing this several times in the past.
Of course what that actually means is that this is a story about some other way of calculating things that shows them losing users in a new and exciting way thats not entirely unlike the previous way they calculated it.
They'll talk to them when they get home? Or they'll call them on the phone?
You do realize people survived and actually communicated with people BEFORE facebook right?
Get this shocker, people (that includes parents and daughters since you seem to not know much about the world) actually were able to communicate without the Internet!
Want to really blow your mind ... people can communicate with out telephones or electronics at ALL!
Before you could type, you could write letters! It was fucking CRAZY back then.
Before all that though, if you want to go REALLY REALLY REALLY fucking old school and show how leet you are ...
You could just walk into the same fucking room and have an actual conversation with the person.
It blows my mind that anyone would even make such a utterly retarded statement.
How about they're family members and are mortally hurt if you don't friend them?
Well, if they were mortally hurt, then now they are dead and its no longer an issue.
But ... since you were probably exaggerating then the proper response is to encourage them to seek counselling, they have self-worth issues.
If someone is hurt because you won't 'friend them on facebook' they have issues way deeper than you can solve by friending them.
Blocking status updates is for people without a backbone. Be honest, you'll get a lot more respect from people. You might think they never will find out, but the reality of it is they already know, you've probably told them about doing that themselves, which already showed them you don't have the courage or respect for them to be honest about it. Instead you'd rather lie because its easier on you.
Grow a spine, and stop being so two-faced and untrustable. Respect is far more powerful than your facebook friends list, especially when all of them know better than to trust anything you say because you're probably just saying it to their face and doing/saying something entirely different behind their back.
Now, to me that seems pretty odd, why so many, why May
Cause its warm and they can just go outside and see their actual friends in real life since the weather is considerably nicer than just a few months ago?
Of course, that very same pattern is seen in almost every business, hence why some businesses have busy seasons in the summer, and some have busy winter seasons.
Though it really is not a tool. Tools are used for doing useful work. Facebook is a cross between a game and jerking yourself off.
I disagree, I've found both gaming and jerking off to be more useful and enjoyable than facebook, and I mean like jerking off with toothpaste as a lubricant and playing ET on the Atari 2600 are more enjoyable than Facebook in some not so insignificant ways.
If someone doesn't have 'the time to deal with you', they aren't your friend, problem solved.
If you didn't have a self esteem/confidence problem, you wouldn't be concerned with trying to call people who don't have the time for you friends.
So basically, you think its socially acceptable to do on facebook what you wouldn't consider doing anywhere else.
Did you ever for a second question WHY you act differently ...
Oh yeah... alienating people over something as asinine as Facebook is so much better than the alternative.
Yet you let people do it to you all the time, that is in fact your exact complaint about these people are parties.
You don't know what a friend is, these people are not your friends if they're bugging you about being friended.
I have lost a few friends because of facebook and twitter
They weren't your friends.
Actually, its unlikely you know what a friend ACTUALLY is.
People on facebook call acquaintances 'friends'. Just because you know someone and you've had a conversation with them once or twice and you happen to share something in common ... that doesn't make you friends.
People only have a small group of friends, less than 10 in real life, generally less than 5 if you exclude family members. If you think you have more, its extremely unlikely you know the difference between a friend and an acquaintance.
Sadly I have a couple friends where pretty much the only way to communicate with them is with it
Wrong. They aren't your friends. If they were, they'd communicate with you. If they don't have the time to write a letter to you (or an email) directly, they aren't your friends. You simply aren't that important to them (compared to whatever/wherever they are now). Maybe in the future, you'll be friends again, but right now, you're old acquaintances.
No young person 'fails' to grasp email, its just that you aren't important enough for them to email. If you happen to be handy and extremely easy to send a one line message too ... well then they'll send you a random thought when they notice you on facebook. Thats not communication. Thats not friendship. Thats not socializing.
If you weren't so dependent on approval from others, you wouldn't use Facebook now.
You have low self-esteem, so you've lowered your standards to the point that if someone sends you a random thought on facebook you think of them as a friend. This indicates that your ACTUAL problem is you have no friends and you need to stop fucking around on facebook and get out and meet some people in the real world.
You've never ran into the "friend of a friend guilt" trip, I see.
Actually, its more like we're not all push overs and followers with no ability to think for ourselves.
You sir, are a follower. I'd also be willing to bet you care about how many facebook friends you have, to show your social status as having a bunch of friends.
Is it really hard to say 'I don't friend everyone and I'm not friending you because you're fucking annoying me about friending you'.
Do you depend so much on everyone else liking you that you are unable to like yourself and care about what YOU like?
If you have a problem with 'friending peer pressure' you really need to get some counselling. I'm dead serious, not trying to be an insulting ass like the rest of my post. If it bothers you that much, you need medication. You don't actually need other peoples approval to be happy in life, stop being so concerned with it and facebook will be far less of a problem for you.
Of course, the sad thing is, Facebook is a product of the problem not the actual problem itself. People such as yourself with low self esteem and the need to please others in order to feel value and self worth. You need to learn to live without depending on others for approval and how to like/love yourself before you start worrying about your social network. Once you fix your own issues, your social issues will fall by the wayside as you realize your friends are more like leeches taking advantage of the fact that your self confidence issues make you think you aren't worthwhile without being able to show all your Facebook friends.
Let me give you a hint. No one, anywhere in the world has more than 10 friends (less than that really). You may have a bunch of people you like and hang out with once and a while see occasionally (or regularly like coworkers) that you wouldn't have a problem being friends with, but they are just acquaintances. For instance, when you go to a party, most of those people aren't your friends, so when they say why don't you friend me you say 'because we're aquantences, not friends, the only time I see you is at parties'
Its really not hard. You just needs some self-confidence/balls and a self-esteem boost.
The good news for you is, EVERYONE else on facebook is JUST as fucked up as you. They all have low self-esteem and self-confidence problems (regular users, not just random people who create an account and never look again) ... so you're in good company. Well, okay, not everyone, the other group on Facebook is the group of scammers and manipulators taking advantage of people like yourself.
Back to my original statement, get counseling.
Translation:
Firefox 5 == Firefox 4 Beta 1 ...
Firefox 6 = Firefox 4 Beta 2
Firefox 457 = Firefox 4 RC 1 alpha.
The problem with this retarded change in version numbers is that their target audeince isn't going to be affected by the version number game. We geeks don't give a fuck what the version number is, and we know you're bullshitting with the stupid version number increases. We all still know firefox is just as buggy, bloated and overall broken on 'version 5' as it was on version 4, except now there are a few NEW half implemented features that no one cares about and/or will never be finished properly.
All they are doing is pushing themselves further from the business environment and relegating themselves to more of a geek toy.
Mozilla has become Netscape. It is no longer useful. Just a bunch of over paid douche bags who sit around and write code they want to write rather than actually producing something useful.
Its too bad they didn't do a better job of cleaning house the last time netscape failed, looks like they left enough of the old guard that its happened again.
I don't want to hate Mozilla, but for fucks sake give me a little help here, Mozilla has turned into an example of how not to do it. Its as if their goal is to demonstrate all the wrong things to do when trying to produce a respectable high-end OSS application.
Aluminum cans have other uses besides exchange for money.
Aluminum cans can be used as tools for cutting, scooping, of course holding things and many other things I don't have on the top of my head.
Monopoly money and Pokeman cards can be used to play the games they came from, so they have value on their own.
Bitcoin has absolutely no use other than as a fiat currency.
The fact that they took bitcoins in the first place puts serious doubts into my mind about the understanding of technology at the EFF. Typically its clear they have a clue, however this is one of those moves that makes you wonder. Well not this one, this one makes sense. It was the accepting them in the first place part that boggles my mind.
Force everyone to be compatible?
*Mandate* that all carriers use a specific cell technology or implementation, and have absolutely no alternatives? Yeah. That's going to be just swell.
Yes, EXACTLY.
That doesn't prevent progress, it doesnt prevent new technology, it doesn't prevent competition, it just requires that everyone be on the same page.
It'll work out JUST fine as long as it was put in place and put the entire brunt of the pressure on the providers and not back down when they do their best to make it fail from the start.
It won't fail, the providers won't let it, they wont' throw away all that money just because they want to 'lock people in', the major carriers lose and gain from each other pretty much equally in general, even with all the bullshit they do to prevent it. Its not like people run from AT&T to T-Mobile because their phone will work there, most assume it won't so switching from AT&T to T-Mobile is no more attractive than switching to Verizon ... of course, this is all because phones are locked to a fucking provider, even after the contract expires.
But, back to the point, rather than go out of business, verizon, at&t/mabell/tmobile, and all the rest would get with the program and make it work.
They'd kick and scream and tell us it was impossible ... RIGHT UP to the point where customers started switching to something else ... which is a major risk, as we may just find something completely better than the current carriers and dump them all together even if they change their minds and started putting effort into serving their customers.
We can control them, stop being such a pussy. The only reason it wouldn't work is because we let them tell us no. We won't of course, the instant gratification of cell phones pretty much has them in complete and total control til the end of human civilization or until someone else finds another fad for the idiots.
I live in America, use my cell phone daily and have travelled to Europe with it and never missed a beat.
Of course, my phone is a multiband GSM phone and not from of the carriers that still using something other than the rest of the world.
On of the reason I won't use Verizon is because I want my phone to work outside of the US, not because I do much travel outside the states (about 3 times in my life) but because I don't want to support someone who doesn't put effort into compatibility.