It’s two weeks since Google decided to unleash unwrap their social networking project “Buzz”. From the get-go, problems were noticed. Noticed by people who didn’t even want to use “Buzz”. Noticed by people who didn’t use Gmail. Noticed by people who don’t even have a computer.
I usually ignore Google Ads. They’re always there, in the margins, on our own Wordsmoker and of course, on Facebook. But every now and again I glance over and sigh. Yes, I’m 35 and single. Thanks, Google Ads, I know. It’s OK, really. Test a Pink Mac? Why sure, that seems reputable. And who wouldn’t want a Barbie Laptop?
Like Stalin himself once said “I’ve got a bad feeling about this”, just before he sold-out Lenin Calrissian to Boba Khrushchev in The Empire’s Five Year Plan Strikes Back, a Lucasfilm production. I have no idea what I’m on about, because I seem to have angered the Facebook Gods in some manner, maybe by not clicking on enough Dutch adverts for cellphones or wanting my penis extended by Miley Cyrus. Anyway – I can’t log into Facebook to promote your posts (and this one) for some reason, and my millions of 178 friends must be missing me by now and the spam I force their way via electricity.
I just checked and my profile is still there. And no doubt people are crying and wailing, especially Senor Wences because he loves me. So, my Facebook presence hasn’t gone completely. Just – I can’t do anything with it, and it’s been two hours since I requested a password reset to my 17 different email addresses over all 12 continents – so please accept my apologies in the interim, and for the sudden decline in page-views/upsurge in quality.
Why, you may ask? Oh lawwwdy, for many a reason. Here goes my top ten list for why this would be totally awesome:
1. Obviously, this would mean that any response to how I feel about a subject (whether it be one regarding news in politics, technology, science, entertainment, feminism, etc etc etc) I could just fade it out and pretend like it never happened. Oh wait, I already do that HAHAHA
It may be the nicotine patch talking but for some reason, I am compelled to share this. Commentator Culture sure is interesting…
Hello browser-cursers!
Wordsmoker Customer Service (Raul and Tony) have had two complaints regarding the performance of Wordsmoker articles under the festering heap of horror-code commonly referred to in whispered tones amongst web developers as “Microsoft Internet Explorer“. It seems that some, though not all (great, that makes it easy to bug-hunt. Ed) articles produce an anti-Pro-Choice message or something saying “Operation Aborted” in fuckoffhuge letters on your computer boxes.
Time was the only milk available anywhere in the world was from a teat. Even today, with the stuff available in little cartons and gallon-sized plastic jugs, some argue – a few perhaps a little more aggressively than others – that breast milk is still the best thing to feed your baby boy or girl. Now Facebook has stepped into the fray by banning photos of the savage, ungodly, otherwordly practice of FEEDING BABIES MILK because it might be deemed offensive.
