my thoughts on face book and the people who use it. while being very careful not to use the word cretin.

Well while it might seem a bit of a aggressive starting point for a blog post, I thought I'd get my main point across straight away. As my friend Chris pointed out, my hate of Facebook is like a smoker who used to smoke and then moans about it to people who do. Fair point, however while I used to like Facebook for communicating with people and putting ideas together, sharing jokes... What I don't like is their theft of information, storage of it, manipulation. I also don't like the effect it has on people, the ease it gives to people who would be stalkers and can easily be. The product links that you don't actually have to endorse without other people being told you do. The joy of every word you make in a dumb late night conversation with your dumb friends being Discoverable under your name on google. And there are more reasons.

It's lazy communication. It promotes bad use of languages, makes communication insignificant and pointless. Makes YOUR bullshit opinion a matter of record for everyone to see. It's like when you don't like Harry potter, people accuse you of thinking you're a pseudo intellectual who thinks they are better than them. I guess like not voting for the nazi's in the 1930's (too far?). Let's idiots tell you what their stupid kids are doing, let's robots offer you computer sex (how would that work in a literal situation? Answers on a postcard to anywhere but me). Makes lonely people feel more lonely, facilitates the 'liking' of someone's comment, the ultimate action in fuck-lazy conversation where you don't even RESPOND you just click a thumbs up. The ability to bear witness to the depressing break down of relationships and friendships and in the uk a number of people have been stabbed etc for 'dissing' someone on Facebook. Obviously this brings me to my point, that anyone who would murder someone for a rude comment on a social networking site has got to be mentally unwell or intensely fucking stupid. Obviously if Facebook wasn't used it wouldn't be what it is. It is the apparatus. But it's one that appeals on a mixture of Social pressure to join or miss out on technological advance, because if you don't use it you are some kind of anti social dinosaur (not like people who add you as a friend but wouldn't recognise you in the street) and the idea that by somehow not using it you are some kind of humbug Christmas carrol figure who throws cold potatoes at scurvy ridden children when you can't find any coal. Yeah it is a tool. But so is a hammer and lots of people manage to misuse them too.

Oh and join the dust piggies facebook group or otherwise no one will like you.

Soup. More interesting than the stupid fucking internet.