02.28
Sunday evening I made predictions of how coffee I would ingest and how many hours of sleep I would get. I got 24.75 hours of sleep and drank 8 cups of tea/coffee. These numbers are slightly skewed because througout the week I took about 2 hours or so worth of power naps and had 4-7 cups of iced tea/”flavored water,” which very well may have been caffeinated. I just don’t know.
Now on to the topic of why Facebook pisses me off. When I joined Facebook, it must have been my sophomore year of high school. At the time none of my friends from high school were on, but I had friends in the Greater Chicago Region that were on, so I joined for them. As time progressed more people joined Facebook. By the time I was a junior/senior in high school “everybody” was on Facebook. At the time I saw a trend on facebook; when it was somebody’s birthday, a large majority of their friends were notified and all proceeded to write a birthday message. I decided to change my birthday on Facebook, so all my “friends” could write me birthday messages when it wasn’t really my birthday. Tons of people fell for it. I could go back to my wall and check how many, but the number is insignificant. You can no longer change your birthday on Facebook. This is probably due to security purposes, but where’s the fun in that?
Sometime last year I decided I wanted to be in a relationship with myself on Facebook, so I made a second account. Later in the year, I changed my main Facebook account so it would have my middle initial “C.” At that time I did not think about the second acount, but when I went to change it, Facebook would not let me add the “.” after the C. Again, the point of that was security so you do not have names that look like “JaRe.D.”
Just a week or two ago, Facebook changed their terms of service to what appeared to be that you no longer own your information that you submit to the website. Now they implented a more Democratic method of changing the Terms of Service by including users in the decision making process. Facebook was already selling your information to advertisors, so what did it really matter if they owned your information or not? Most recently and what irked me most was that Facebook removed the “is” from the status update. Since I’ve had a Facebook, every status update of mine had “is” in it; now I have to manually type it. Not only am I on Facebook way too much for my own good, but they have pissed me off multiple times (their chat function sucks too) since I created a profile. I am highly considering deleting my Facebook. Yet again, what would be the point of this, they own MY information.
This blog post is looking more like it should be three different posts, but I’ll continue anyway.
As you can see on the right side of the blog, I now have a Twitter account. You can now follow me here. I came across this NYTimes Article this morning and realized that not only is SecretTweet and PostSecret are the same thing, but they are also the same exact thing at fmylife.com. I can’t wait to see who sues who first!
@JaredKastriner