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I know several people that are quite bright in real life but only post cat pics and unfunny quotes on facebook, then like random useless uninteresting crap. The

by antocv 13y ago

I know several people that are quite bright in real life but only post cat pics and unfunny quotes on facebook, then like random useless uninteresting crap. They are ruining the "experience of facebook/social networking" for everyone on their friend-list willfully as a slow sabotage. That is kind of the best thing one could really do to subvert the facebook. It isnt enough to change name, or to misinform or deactivate etc, the best thing is really to offer the lower the quality of everything below crap, to drive others away too. To more fertile and free lands of networking. Whatever that is, it will be somewhere soon enough.

sillysaurus2 13y ago
... What? Wouldn't people just block your posts?
- antimatter 13y ago
  If enough of your friends did this and you had to block all of them, you'd have no use for a facebook account.
  - lmm 13y ago
    Which would be different from if the same people just didn't sign up for facebook accounts how?
    - antocv 13y ago
      When we signed up long time go when we trusted the tech community and facebook, we went in with good intentions. But then facebook breaks our trust and sells us out to anyone who is willing to pay, something they explicitly said they wouldnt do when we signed up. Slowly and carefully like a psychopath working its victim, facebook is removing any sense of control and privacy from its users. Like for example removing this feature in the headline. Back in time I remember we users had control of our news feed, we could actually stay in touch with friends, these days we have very little control of what gets shown the news feed, we dont even know how the algorithm works. Far too often we miss important information because facebook decided to post ads was more important. Well. Bring it on facebook, here is more inane crap.
      - lmm 13y ago
        Rose tinted glasses. I remember what facebook was like in 2005; if anything there was less privacy (you could search by course, or by relationship status), and the news feed was so full of junk as to be useless.
  - crystaln 13y ago
    If enough of your friends had the desire to do this, you'd have no use for a facebook account to begin with.
jstalin 13y ago
I love it. I'd sign up for a service that automatically posts inane crap.
- jamesbritt 13y ago
  How inane are we talking about here? I'm thinking of a script that grabs a random YouTube comment more than N characters long and posts it someplace else completely out of context. I'd expect the results to be like @Horse_ebooks, where "horse" refers to heroin.
  - jstalin 13y ago
    I was thinking more like random sentences from a gutenberg book... and of course cat pictures.
- nexox 13y ago
  Sounds like you might be interested in this function that I keep in my bashrc, which prints a random line from Uncyclopedia (note, output may contain NSFW language and mangled unicode characters): mknoise(){ curl -Ls http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Random/ | sed -n '/<p>/,/<\/p>/p' \ | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e '/^*$/d' -e '/article/g' | \ perl -MList::Util=shuffle -e 'print shuffle(<STDIN>);' | sed -n '/^.\{35\}/p' | head -n1 }

by antocv 13y ago

sillysaurus2 13y ago

... What? Wouldn't people just block your posts?

antimatter 13y ago
If enough of your friends did this and you had to block all of them, you'd have no use for a facebook account.
- lmm 13y ago
  Which would be different from if the same people just didn't sign up for facebook accounts how?
  - antocv 13y ago
    When we signed up long time go when we trusted the tech community and facebook, we went in with good intentions. But then facebook breaks our trust and sells us out to anyone who is willing to pay, something they explicitly said they wouldnt do when we signed up. Slowly and carefully like a psychopath working its victim, facebook is removing any sense of control and privacy from its users. Like for example removing this feature in the headline. Back in time I remember we users had control of our news feed, we could actually stay in touch with friends, these days we have very little control of what gets shown the news feed, we dont even know how the algorithm works. Far too often we miss important information because facebook decided to post ads was more important. Well. Bring it on facebook, here is more inane crap.
    - lmm 13y ago
      Rose tinted glasses. I remember what facebook was like in 2005; if anything there was less privacy (you could search by course, or by relationship status), and the news feed was so full of junk as to be useless.
- crystaln 13y ago
  If enough of your friends had the desire to do this, you'd have no use for a facebook account to begin with.

jstalin 13y ago

I love it. I'd sign up for a service that automatically posts inane crap.

jamesbritt 13y ago
How inane are we talking about here? I'm thinking of a script that grabs a random YouTube comment more than N characters long and posts it someplace else completely out of context. I'd expect the results to be like @Horse_ebooks, where "horse" refers to heroin.
- jstalin 13y ago
  I was thinking more like random sentences from a gutenberg book... and of course cat pictures.
nexox 13y ago
Sounds like you might be interested in this function that I keep in my bashrc, which prints a random line from Uncyclopedia (note, output may contain NSFW language and mangled unicode characters): mknoise(){ curl -Ls http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Random/ | sed -n '/<p>/,/<\/p>/p' \ | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e '/^*$/d' -e '/article/g' | \ perl -MList::Util=shuffle -e 'print shuffle(<STDIN>);' | sed -n '/^.\{35\}/p' | head -n1 }