rant time! i don\u2019t rant enough. or maybe i do, but they\u2019re dispersed amongst any number of websites through my pithy commentary. oh look\u2026a new social network has emerged. and from google no less. and while i am all for early adoption of new media, it\u2019s not because i\u2019m forward thinking or anything\u2026its really because i like to reserve my names and handles early on. though in the case of google+, it\u2019s tied to my gmail name anyway. *shrug<\/i>* oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
so now i\u2019m on google+, and some friends find it less than exciting, others already pointing at the death of facebook. which got me wondering\u2026huh? let\u2019s backtrack a bit. before google+, there was a discernible chorus of people complaining about facebooks privacy issues, etc\u2026and that they would like to bail on it for really\u2026anything like facebook, but not facebook. which had me wondering a bit to myself. what the fuck were people posting on facebook that was soooo important as to be deemed \u2018top secret\u2026don\u2019t steal my info brah<\/i>\u2018. the fact that you were drunk last night? your shit stain looked like jesus? you like nyancats<\/a>? oh fuck\u2026they\u2019re on to you! if you added your email, phone number, etc\u2026then that\u2019s on you. but really\u2026what then? nobody cried when phone books were delivered in the past. the point is, nobody gives a fuck about you. there is no secret department within facebook noting every minutiae of your life via your profile and news feed. and even if there were, their weekly reports would be something along the lines of \u201cwatches shitty movies, likes reality tv, gets drunk alot<\/i>.\u201d but let\u2019s get this straight\u2026if you had issues with fb\u2019s privacy issues, oh yes, google would be a much better place. the company that knows everything about you already. yea the perfect alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n i continued wondering some more\u2026about modern society\u2019s need to clearly define the new and the obsolete. that if they\u2019re not rebuilding the shrine every 20 years, that they become irrelevant. this topic of course extends beyond just social networks (for instance dumbasses buying a new iphone every year), but with social networks, it worked a bit differently. do people really love rebuilding their profile and friends list every few years? because i sure as fuck don\u2019t. it was first friendster, then myspace, then facebook, and now google+. while i\u2019m all for keeping up with the progression of technology and bemoan those that refuse to adopt, in this particular case it wasn\u2019t about a technological progression. friendster was a first step, myspace was eyeball herpes\u2026but facebook had everything most need and expect from a social network. the facebook newsfeed is their crowning achievement and gift to social networks everywhere. google+ brings circles. yea, taking bets how long before facebook brings out a similar update. what else? not much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n the point of this rant isn\u2019t to say i wont be on google+, since i am. it\u2019s to question the necessity of another social network, and as a corollary, people\u2019s oddly misguided malignment of facebook when they clearly want what they offer. from google\u2019s perspective, of course another network\u2026their network\u2026is necessary. but from a user standpoint, it seems kind of pointless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" rant time! i don\u2019t rant enough. or maybe i do, but they\u2019re dispersed amongst any number of websites through my pithy commentary. oh look\u2026a new social network has emerged. and from google no less. and while i am all for early adoption of new media, it\u2019s not because i\u2019m forward thinking or anything\u2026its really because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}