[kj] OT: I dislike Farcebook

[Darren A. Peace]

Are you admitting to being Pete West?

 

J

 

Darren

Hungerford, UK

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of The Exorcist
Sent: 29 March 2009 18:44
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: I dislike Farcebook

 

Which is why I never put on any real or relevant information on any site. 
I also Mix up nicknames, use a REAL FAKE identity as well so I don't get
confused, and tons of other crap like that. 
Facebook is NOTHING compared to the Google machine.

At 01:11 PM 3/29/2009, Stephen Lawrence wrote:



no brendan you have a good rant ..it'll make you feel better and much more
healthier than to bottle it up ..personally i wll never get involved with
these things which as you rightly said show how shallow   some people are
and totaly obsessed with the cult of personality ..i have never lost sleep
worrying whether or not people like me ..then again the trick is to like
yourself and not do anything that might change that self perception ...i
have also heard that facebook is a haven for identity theft so it was
probably a good idea that you quit ...stick around with the gatherers where
everyone tells it like it is [ i hope ] 
 

  _____  

From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:21:34 +1100
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: I dislike Farcebook

Doesn't bother me who agrees and disagrees with me Mil, I just reached the
end of my rope with the thing. I type fast and multitask on a PC pretty
quick so the speed issue grates, and my last dozen or so facebook
experiences involved getting emailed to hear that an application being used
by a friend of someone I worked with 8 years ago (and didn't like but
friended out of awkwardness and wanting to look like I'm really popular and
catch up with those heroes with 336 'friends') wanted to bug me about some
crappy quiz about my sex life of stupid Hollywood movies, and hey it thought
it'd spam the living shit out of EVERYONE starting from that person's circle
of 'friends' all the way to Kevin Fucking Bacon, and all you have to do is
click on this email link, sign in, wait and wait and wait and wait and wait
and reload the page and wait and wait and try another site to make sure it's
not your internet connection, and kill your browser session, clear your
cache, restart your router, in the process accidentally knocking over the
stack of 50 blank DVDS onto the floor, pick them back up and throw away the
bottom 4 that are fucked, go peel and eat a carrot and silently chant the
Mantra of Calmness to find your happy place, come back, go through the whole
process again, and then if your little data load wins the sperm race and
beats all the billions of other little data loads in to the Deathstar's
servers, YAY! you get the chance add the application PERMANENTLY into your
life and get bugged ever more frequently and thereby give some bunch of
soulless nerds access to all of your personal data so that you can take the
quiz or kill an undead ninja pirate in some pathetic 'game' that doesn't
match Pong for graphics or playability, all in order to garner demographic
information about who you are, who you talk to and what you like and WHAT
THEY CAN SELL YOU and the only way to delete your data permanently is to
delete your whole profile, all your friends, photos, every single message
you've sent or received, all the stupid wall and super wall and poke and
super poke and endless notifications about what other people are thinking
and blah blah blah blah blah blah and jump through dozens of fiery barbed
hoops turning all the notification options off, each time waiting for the
laggy piece of shit site to catch up cos it's busy driving millions of other
people insane and rendering the entire online world yet stupider and more
shallow, and THEN ask Facebook personally, via email (?!) to kindly delete
your account, and wait A WEEK, then take their word for it that they have,
while they no doubt make sure to reload all your info from backup straight
into the CIA's servers and highlight your account because you were one of
the very few who not only wanted to leave the Matrix, but managed to find
out how and actually take the time to delete every single annoying piece of
data on the stupid, fucking, thing.

 

Anyway. I hate it and my last handful of experiences with it have sapped my
will to live. But hey.we can still be friends J

 

PS: Anyone who takes me too seriously when I go on like this, please turn
down your credulity. 

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