{"id":8519,"date":"2011-12-20T14:26:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8519"},"modified":"2011-12-20T14:56:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T21:56:56","slug":"attack-of-the-brain-eating-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8519","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Brain-Eating Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, scare-mongering media, what will you terrify us with next?<\/p>\n

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Well, what more can one say about that?\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Brain-eating ameobae.\u00a0 I’ll never put anything up my nose again.\u00a0 Not even a finger.<\/p>\n

More current news, as seen on Facebook:<\/p>\n

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Anent the Dear Leader’s demise, I couldn’t help making a few jokes, but I’m saddened to see so many of my fellow netizens making fun of the North Koreans weeping over Kim’s death<\/a> in that video going around.\u00a0 Those poor people have no choice in the matter.\u00a0 They’re crying for their careers, their families and loved ones, their very lives.\u00a0 We have no fucking idea what it is to live in a dictatorship.<\/p>\n

TV news shows have been flogging the meme that the world was unprepared for Kim Jong-Il’s passing. That’s nonsense.\u00a0 He’d been in poor health for years.\u00a0 Anyone with a brain (i.e., anyone who doesn’t use a neti pot) was prepared for his death. What the world is unprepared for is what’ll happen next.<\/p>\n

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By now, probably, most of you have seen the story about the small-time politician who called for the assassination of Obama and his family<\/a> on Facebook. I won’t repeat his statement here, but you can read it at the link (be warned, it’s bad, and I almost didn’t include the link).<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, though he’s taken down the assassination post his Facebook profile remains wide open.\u00a0 Normally I blur out Facebook users’ faces and names, but this asshole is so proud of himself I decided to leave the following screen grab intact.\u00a0 It’s a post about the aftermath of his call for Obama’s assassination:<\/p>\n

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It’s good to know the Secret Service is on it.\u00a0 They have to be working overtime, what with a mixed-race president in the White House and legions of mouth-breathing cretins at large in the land.\u00a0 I absolutely love the part in this follow-on post where Mr. Manson (no doubt a close relative of Charlie’s) says he thinks the Secret Service will go easy on him because he cooperated.\u00a0 Right.\u00a0 That’ll be the right there on the cover page of the indictment, just below “Subject openly advocated the assassination of the President and his children.”<\/p>\n

Oh, and examiner.com<\/a>?\u00a0 Calling what this twat said on Facebook a “faux pas” is like calling the North Korean famine the “Dear Leader Diet.”<\/p>\n

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Not strictly Facebook-related but close: I closed my Diaspora account yesterday.\u00a0 Only four Facebook friends were on Diaspora; over a span of two months not one of them posted anything.\u00a0 I didn’t do much better.<\/p>\n

Google+ is a different story.\u00a0 Although only a few of my Facebook friends also use G+, they post there, and what they put on G+ is of a different nature than what they put on Facebook, more in the nature of commentary on ideas, books, and current events.\u00a0 It’s altogether a more intellectual place.\u00a0 I follow several authors and popular bloggers on G+ and a few of them follow my posts in return.\u00a0 G+ is a keeper, but it won’t be replacing Facebook anytime soon, at least as a place to keep in touch with friends and relatives.<\/p>\n

Twitter?\u00a0 I check in a couple of times every day, frequently catching breaking stories hours before the big-name blogs and news sites pick up on them.\u00a0 It’s where I first learned of Kim Jong-Il’s death, and the killing of Osama bin Laden.\u00a0 Very useful, often quite fun.<\/p>\n

Social media?\u00a0 Count me in.\u00a0 Except for Diaspora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, scare-mongering media, what will you terrify us with next? Well, what more can one say about that?\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Brain-eating ameobae.\u00a0 I’ll never put anything up my nose again.\u00a0 Not even a finger. More current news, as seen on Facebook: Anent the Dear Leader’s demise, I couldn’t help making a few jokes, but I’m saddened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,27,2,6],"tags":[278,145,174,181],"class_list":["post-8519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-media","category-memes","category-personal","category-a-series-of-tubes","tag-diaspora","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8519"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8545,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions\/8545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}