99 Days of Freedom, anyone?
Of course, if you've been a regular visitor to this blog since the days back when I actually wrote about things other than gardening, you'll know that I've been "free" for much longer than 99 days. (Well, free from the scourge of the FACEBOOK... Twitter newsfeeds, now that's another story...)
I doubt any of the FB users I know will participate in this 99-Days thing, to tell the truth. I haven't even heard any of them commenting on the whole "controversial mood experiment" conducted by the creepy powers-that-be at FB. If I were on FB, I'd probably have seen them forward (or whatever the proper terminology is) the story-- or "Like" it-- or comment on someone else's post to express their dismay-- and then I'd watch as they promptly forgot all about it and went back to their FBing as usual.
...The thing is, I don't get the impression that people cared enough about the secretive "mood experiment" to do anything so drastic as quitting FB. They find the site too rewarding, too ingrained a part of their daily lives. Kind of like how I feel about my Twitter newsfeeds. Every now and then I'll actually take a serious break from them, but it's rare. Even if there are things I don't like about Twitter, it's part of my routine, and I find it useful and entertaining.
Oh well...
I continue to wait for a true uprising against the tyranny of THE FACEBOOK... One day it will come... ;o) (Probably only when/if FB is challenged by a snazzier, cooler, more invasive social network. Of course, by then we may all be "cyborgs" with surgically implanted Google Glass-type do-dads...)
