05.04.12
Taking out the trash
After a week or so of posting on how to take out the trash on Facebook, the ‘friend’ list is purged to less than 50 percent of its former size. Getting rid of one layer of picture/article/charticle spammers at a time, only to reveal still another, like the peeling of an onion.
Once you get going you realize you’ll have to give at least 90 percent of them the chop. Alternatively, you can demote individuals in your feed with Facebook’s option to see only their ‘most important’ updates. However, for the most efficient and highly rated Facebook spammers in your list, it may not work.
You’ll again wonder why I’m actually on Facebook.
Facebook is for bootlicks and gobble-wallahs, and like the other super social network — Twitter — it’s principal demographic is people who are easily offended by criticism and hard words from anyone who is not an officially designated celebrity or authority figure. Daily, Facebook astonishes with hordes of Americans imprinted with a stupid-from-eating-lead-paint-chips-as-a-child Norman Vincent Peale-like belief that, above all else, it’s important to be sunny no matter how wretched and intelligence-insulting conditions get.
The ‘thumbs down’ has no constituency on Facebook.
So the social network and me — a terrible match.
Why then?
I stupidly followed someone else’s advice.
On Facebook — from the archives.