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Once I realized that FB was controlling what posts I see, I started the painful process of deleting my account. I was furious that a friend of mine was in town

by dade_ 5y ago

Once I realized that FB was controlling what posts I see, I started the painful process of deleting my account. I was furious that a friend of mine was in town, posted on FB but they filtered the post. Then I realized that they were blocking my posts from being seen my actual friends (not FB 'friends'). It was 2014, FB DELETE (disable? Who really knoes with those bastards). Wish I never signed up to the toxic dump of a website. Check out Neal Stephenson Fall or Dodge In Hell. As usual, Neal called it.

cratermoon 5y ago
At this point the only reason I stay on Facebook boils down to "squatting" my own identity.
JonathanMerklin 5y ago
Two questions, since I enjoyed the few Stephensons I've read: 1) a quick search of FoDiH brings up that it's from the perspective of a character in Reamde, which is one of his I have not read yet. Is it a mandatory prerequisite, a good-to-have but optional prerequisite, or essentially unrelated? 2) that search also brings up that it came out in 2019, but your comment says "It was 2014" w.r.t. something to do with FB (I actually had a lot of troubling parsing the meaning of that specific sentence and am still unsure, but that isn't the point). Can you really say he "called it" if he's reasoning a posteriori?
- gshubert17 5y ago
  >> a quick search of FoDiH brings up that it's from the perspective of a character in Reamde, which is one of his I have not read yet. Is it a mandatory prerequisite, a good-to-have but optional prerequisite, or essentially unrelated? I read Reamde about 8 years before FoDiH. I recognized some of the characters but I had forgotten the details. I never got the feeling I needed to go back and reread it. And I enjoyed FoDiH for its own sake.
- ruined 5y ago
  reamde is essentially unrelated. you could enjoy fall without it, stand-alone.
jazzyjackson 5y ago
I wish there was a class action lawsuit for people who missed events (from venues they subscribed to) because facebook holds audiences hostage behind "organic engagement"
fouc 5y ago
https://www.nealstephenson.com/fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html https://www.nealstephenson.com/fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html

by dade_ 5y ago

cratermoon 5y ago

At this point the only reason I stay on Facebook boils down to "squatting" my own identity.

JonathanMerklin 5y ago

Two questions, since I enjoyed the few Stephensons I've read: 1) a quick search of FoDiH brings up that it's from the perspective of a character in Reamde, which is one of his I have not read yet. Is it a mandatory prerequisite, a good-to-have but optional prerequisite, or essentially unrelated? 2) that search also brings up that it came out in 2019, but your comment says "It was 2014" w.r.t. something to do with FB (I actually had a lot of troubling parsing the meaning of that specific sentence and am still unsure, but that isn't the point). Can you really say he "called it" if he's reasoning a posteriori?

gshubert17 5y ago
>> a quick search of FoDiH brings up that it's from the perspective of a character in Reamde, which is one of his I have not read yet. Is it a mandatory prerequisite, a good-to-have but optional prerequisite, or essentially unrelated? I read Reamde about 8 years before FoDiH. I recognized some of the characters but I had forgotten the details. I never got the feeling I needed to go back and reread it. And I enjoyed FoDiH for its own sake.
ruined 5y ago
reamde is essentially unrelated. you could enjoy fall without it, stand-alone.

jazzyjackson 5y ago

I wish there was a class action lawsuit for people who missed events (from venues they subscribed to) because facebook holds audiences hostage behind "organic engagement"

fouc 5y ago

https://www.nealstephenson.com/fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html https://www.nealstephenson.com/fall,-or-dodge-in-hell.html