One of my Friends -- a family friend I've known since the late 70s -- posts:
Hi Bunco girls........we are changing Bunco at my house to Jan 25th instead of the 18th. Please pass this onto the group if you are friends with them on FB.I reread that in shock. Holy fucking crap. How fucking rude is that? Expecting people to know you've changed the date because you put it on Facebook, and asking other people to tell them if they don't see it there.
J_s_s F_ck_ng Chr_st. But I am stopping myself from further rantage. No one here needs any more explanation.
Okay, that was my drive-by post of the morning. Off we go.
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And yeah, I can see how maybe it's a Facebook-network-only bunco group. That might work. But bah.
I told you Facebook was BS. Didn;t I? maybe not. Anyway, this is a trend that cuts across our society. No one calls people anymore, or writes letters on paper. I include myself, but I've decided to reverse the trend. I'm sick of sending emails that don't get answered when I want to say hello to someone. Those folks will get phone calls. I miss using a pen, so I'm gonna start sending handwritten notes, just to see what will happen.
Well, if you have to use paper, make sure it gets there by sending it via a clever boy on a fast horse.
For me, email is the only real way. I see it, and I can't lose it ... if it goes to the right address ...
Shit, more stories to tell. Back to work.
There are two irritations in that Facebookery, IMO. The first is that she's relying on effing FB to communicate important information rather than calling peeps. The second is that she's broadcasting a localized message to everyone in her friend list.
Of the pile of teeny, inconsequential things that irritate the crap out of me, it's when someone sprays personal messages to the world at large, cluttering the world-at-large's news stream.
Another is when someone "likes" a product or company hoping to win a free iPad but only serving to force an advertisement down my throat.
I have to wonder if all those blurbs that tell me so-and-so "likes" Walmart and such-and-such "likes" Samsung are really because those people "liked" the thing or is it just Facebook stealthily stealing our identities for use in advertising? Who the hell would press the Like button for Walmart? Or Wells Fargo Bank?
I "like" things such as local restaurants cuz they will alert me to specials, and I will "like" big national brands, such as Nestle chips, cuz they will post recipes, but I agree that it's a bit weird to "like" a bank.
A lot of companies are offering chances to win something if you like their FB page. Or coupons or whatever.
Um, Bunco. What did you expect? THEY PLAY BUNCO.
I always thought bunco was a swindle in which an unsuspecting mark gets cheated so running the date change on the Facebook makes perfect sense.
FWIW, FB has one fewer letter than AOL.
AOL started in 1983 as GameLine for the Atari 2600 video game console. They grew to have just about every user on the Internet but by about 2000, when they merged with Time Warner, members started realizing it was a scam and left.
Facemash, the Facebook’s predecessor, opened in 2003. I wonder if they can make it to 2020?
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