Get off my lawn!
Jul. 5th, 2011 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieDear God. Apparently Google wants to be the next Facebook. Their campaign appears to be based on, "We have all the features of Facebook, but unlike those fools, we have PRIVACY. Sooo much privacy! You know who's got privacy? We do! Look at all this privacy up in here!" Plus features that I didn't pay much attention to because I don't have a smart phone.*
I truly believe that one day, we will wake up to find that Google has taken over the governments of every nation on Earth, and has a unified world government in beta.
* One day in not too many years, a cell phone that's more computer than voice-transmission device is going to be required to join modern society, much in the way landlines were in the middle of the twentieth century and computers with internet access are becoming now, aren't they? Ugh. I don't deny they're handy, but I reject the notion of being accessible at all times on principle. I might be doing nothing more than staring at a wall in my free time, but it's still mine, and not to be infringed upon. As well, I've really grown to dislike the experience of trying to talk someone when they're interrupted by texts every twenty seconds. It's so rude! I just want to slap the phone out of people's hands when they do that.
...I have officially turned into an old lady.
I truly believe that one day, we will wake up to find that Google has taken over the governments of every nation on Earth, and has a unified world government in beta.
* One day in not too many years, a cell phone that's more computer than voice-transmission device is going to be required to join modern society, much in the way landlines were in the middle of the twentieth century and computers with internet access are becoming now, aren't they? Ugh. I don't deny they're handy, but I reject the notion of being accessible at all times on principle. I might be doing nothing more than staring at a wall in my free time, but it's still mine, and not to be infringed upon. As well, I've really grown to dislike the experience of trying to talk someone when they're interrupted by texts every twenty seconds. It's so rude! I just want to slap the phone out of people's hands when they do that.
...I have officially turned into an old lady.
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Date: 2011-07-07 07:47 pm (UTC)Okay, that I do find it difficult to do. I want the option of checking e-mail and LJ, just not the obligation. Picky, I know. ;)
That's one of the things I do like about Dreamwidth, actually; it's much more articulate-geek-centric, and I miss that elsewhere.
I actually haven't noticed a lot of difference in that area, but I think it's because I avoid the areas of LJ that aren't articulate-geek-centric. Though come to think of it, when someone gave me some paid time over there, I perused my "network" a few times, and it was definitely more interesting to read than my friendsfriends here, which I avoid like the plague. (Though if there was a way to just read personal journals on friendsfriends, rather than be subjected to the communities--UGH, ONTD--I'd be more interested.)