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 07:53 pm (UTC)Yeah, I agree, particularly since that brouhaha where Zuckerberg e-mailed someone to say he thought privacy was stupid or whatever that was all about. I remember them suggesting they didn't care about privacy kind of from the beginning, though.
If I can up and admit that I'm in it for the pretties, might as well go where the medium is visual.
It's not even really that I'm in it for the pretties--although they're nice--it's that I simply can't find (enough) fandom for some things I watch on LJ. I would prefer fic and long discussion posts or essays, but if pictures are all they've got, I'll take pictures.
An axe murderer is gonna find lower-maintenance targets.
Exactly. :D