07.16.13
Two Facebook Tech Tips for Today
Tech Tip 1. Start unliking stuff in your movies, music and tv tracks. Facebook’s Open Graph search in league with corporate America and random busybodies will only use it against you. No good will come of it. Seriously, do have any real ‘friends’ who like you for your canonical list of movies and books? Your corporate ‘likes’ are of no value to you. Why should anyone else get value from them? You think Facebook and corporate America will get friendly with you some day and just dispense a benefit in return, one you never saw coming? While you’re unliking stuff, use your smartphone and call your doctor to say you won’t be needing any more refills on the prescription for stupid pills.
Tech Tip 2. Block someone. FB is not a democracy of free speech. Mark Zuckerberg would secretly laugh at you for thinking so. America is not about free speech, it’s about corporate fascism. And neither is your “timeline” about free speech. It’s your virtual backyard micro app, one you have slight control over. So when a stranger you’d never share a drink with starts getting on your nerves in a “share” comment line and doesn’t take a hint, block. Block with vigor, block with elan. It makes you feel good, too. Refresh the page and watch their silly little face or avatar replaced by a blank silhouette. Now they can’t see you! It will take a moment for them to grasp what has happened, just as they were sharpening another rudeness. It will spoil their fun for a bit and you’ll have enjoyed stepping on someone. Trust me. I’m a professional.