I work inside a giant robot!
Mar 8, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
Last night, I was feeling really, really, bored at work. Seriously, I must have the most boring job on the planet, so, in an effort to relieve my boredom, I decided to take the company’s interstellar shuttle for a quick jolly. Strictly speaking, I am forbidden from flying the old jalopy, but hey-ho.
So, there I was, passing overhead the office when I looked down and noticed something truly amazing:
The building I work in is shaped like a giant robot, I mean, I work inside a giant robot!
Superb!
In unrelated and slightly less exciting news, I have now added Facebook’s Open Graph tags to my site. I am undecided if this is a good thing or not, but as part of an ongoing personal project to be more sociable, I think it is important not to ignore Facebook — which I have tried to do for years.
I know many people involved in the free/libre world consider Facebook to be the tool of the devil, and to some extent, I do to, but I also know that to many people, Facebook is the Internet, and I see no reason to spare them from the same drivel I subject everyone else to.
Now, “like” this page and you will be forever blessed with good luck and fortune, or do not like this page and be forever haunted by 200 dead monkeys! :P
4 responses to “I work inside a giant robot!”
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Mar 8, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
Yet that, more than privacy concerns and whatnot, is the real reason Facebook is evil: Deactive by cdent
Mar 8, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
@FND, interesting content behind that link, thank you for sharing. I have read many other similar thoughts on the subject and I am not ignorant to why people feel like that, but I have decided to opt-out of the opt-outing.
Regarding the use of “evil”, I know that I referred to Facebook as “the tool of the devil”, but I only did so to express a point — we all know that Facebook is just another website and as such is completely amoral, right? ;)
Mar 13, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
@FND: Nice read indeed.
I, too, think it’s highly problematic that Facebook has reached the dominant position it is in now. What’s really concerning to me is that Facebook on one side heavily relies on the open nature of the web (many of the posts I see are just links to publicly available web sites), but on the other side it doesn’t give much back. A lot of what happens on Facebook – including discussions about external content – is practically invisible from the outside, basically forcing you to join if you want to know what’s going on.
Maybe this might change to some degree if Facebook gets more competition from other social networking services like Google Buzz or Diaspora, but at the moment I highly doubt that they can create enough attraction especially for the non tech-savvy user base.
That being said, I’ll now go and hide in the basement before your company building activates, reaches consciousness and starts tearing down the sky.
Mar 13, 2011 (about 1 year ago)
Years ago, when it was first becoming popular, I looked at Facebook, and began filling out all the info they asked for. It occurred to me half-way through it that they were asking the same questions that my bank asked in order to access my account on-line! Yipes!
I decided that I didn’t really need a Facebook account after all. Twitter, Identi.ca, and the forums are enough for me… even with a blog, I sometime have you reign myself in to keep from criticizing my company’s management, so I think I side-stepped a bullet, long term.