{"id":1380,"date":"2010-07-12T20:47:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T00:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2010-07-12T20:48:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T00:48:38","slug":"for-some-reason-ive-decided-to-be-very-vocal-about-my-distaste-for-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"For some reason, I&#8217;ve decided to be very vocal about my distaste for Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/anti-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1381\" title=\"anti-facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/anti-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/anti-facebook.jpg 189w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/anti-facebook-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s not just that I don&#8217;t like the abuse of private information. \u00a0That&#8217;s been well-documented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/\">Dana Boyd<\/a> and others. \u00a0I also find the smug attitude to be more than I can stand. \u00a0 As a casual Facebook user, I find that I am constantly being told what to do &#8211; play this game, give us access to your Gmail Contacts &#8211; look at all your &#8220;friends&#8221; who did the same thing. \u00a0It&#8217;s nauseating.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve spent a little time lately ranting and raving like a lunatic to see what happens. \u00a0Facebook is one of the great data miners out there. \u00a0Will they react to my profanity-laced insolence? \u00a0Only time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>In the interim, however, Facebook is making an excellent punching bag; it therapeutic! \u00a0Bad day at work? \u00a0Yell at Facebook. \u00a0Dog peed in the house? \u00a0Facebook&#8217;s fault. \u00a0Phillies on a losing streak? \u00a0Fuck Facebook! \u00a0Try it, you&#8217;ll like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just that I don&#8217;t like the abuse of private information. \u00a0That&#8217;s been well-documented by Dana Boyd and others. \u00a0I also find the smug attitude to be more than I can stand. \u00a0 As a casual Facebook user, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[526],"tags":[140,1123,1122,1124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}