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Social Media Madness
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013 12:53 pmIt took me a long, long time to get the idea of FarceBørk, but eventually I took to it and now use it quite a lot. Actually, I use it rather more than ‘quite a lot’ I probably use it more than I should do.
That might be about to change. I have a Google+ account, too. That rarely gets used if only for the simple reason that few other people seem to use it, either. It’s a kind of vicious circle, I guess. No-one uses it much because no-one uses it. It’s all self-reinforcing.
That said, I am contemplating shifting the twaddle I post up on a daily basis (the stuff that falls far short of being a properly written LJ entry) away from FarceBørk and moving to Google+. Further, I am considering simply deleting my FB account and calling it a day.
The thing is, I have been fed up with the constant privacy setting changes that get applied with every update as defaults, meaning that I have to keep editing them back to a level I am happy with. I am fed up with sponsored adverts popping up disguised as recommendations from friends, I am fed up with constant ‘games’ requests, even though I have supposedly blocked all games requests (see fist gripe, I guess).
And now, I am fed up with their editorialising.
Back in May, they found – or were informed – that some people were posting up, if you can believe it, pictures and movies of beheadings. So they banned it and quite rightly so. The pages were taken down and new ones stopped. I don’t know what happened to the posters, but the offending media were removed. Now they have reversed that policy subject to the comment that they will be permitted provided that they are only included for condemnation.
I don’t need access to beheadings to condemn them!
More widely, I am more than happy with their desire not to encourage porn of anything off-colour. That’s all too freely available on the web anyway, so there’s no need for it on FaceBook. But the guidelines make no sense. For example, pictures of breastfeeding are lumped in with sexually explicit images. Now, I don’t particularly want to look at pictures of breastfeeding in much the same way I don’t want to look at pictures on many subjects.
But it’s hardly offensive and yet it’s banned in the same way beheadings aren’t…
That might be about to change. I have a Google+ account, too. That rarely gets used if only for the simple reason that few other people seem to use it, either. It’s a kind of vicious circle, I guess. No-one uses it much because no-one uses it. It’s all self-reinforcing.
That said, I am contemplating shifting the twaddle I post up on a daily basis (the stuff that falls far short of being a properly written LJ entry) away from FarceBørk and moving to Google+. Further, I am considering simply deleting my FB account and calling it a day.
The thing is, I have been fed up with the constant privacy setting changes that get applied with every update as defaults, meaning that I have to keep editing them back to a level I am happy with. I am fed up with sponsored adverts popping up disguised as recommendations from friends, I am fed up with constant ‘games’ requests, even though I have supposedly blocked all games requests (see fist gripe, I guess).
And now, I am fed up with their editorialising.
Back in May, they found – or were informed – that some people were posting up, if you can believe it, pictures and movies of beheadings. So they banned it and quite rightly so. The pages were taken down and new ones stopped. I don’t know what happened to the posters, but the offending media were removed. Now they have reversed that policy subject to the comment that they will be permitted provided that they are only included for condemnation.
I don’t need access to beheadings to condemn them!
More widely, I am more than happy with their desire not to encourage porn of anything off-colour. That’s all too freely available on the web anyway, so there’s no need for it on FaceBook. But the guidelines make no sense. For example, pictures of breastfeeding are lumped in with sexually explicit images. Now, I don’t particularly want to look at pictures of breastfeeding in much the same way I don’t want to look at pictures on many subjects.
But it’s hardly offensive and yet it’s banned in the same way beheadings aren’t…