Sunday, June 21, 2009

Naughty-naughty

I so much as try to edit a Facebook post, and I get this:

“Our systems indicate that you’ve been misusing certain features on the site. This e-mail serves as a warning. Misuse of Facebook’s features or violating Facebook’s terms of use may result in your account being disabled. Thanks in advance for your understanding and cooperation.
Please refer to http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=421 for further information.”

Facebook isn’t like my family’s web-site (“FlagOut”).
The only way to edit a Facebook post is delete and post again.
Doing so gets things out-of-order. If a second post was following the one you deleted, it now appears as your first post — and your repost follows.
You have to delete your second post, and repost it to get things back into order.
I.e. editing a Facebook post can be done, but it’s nowhere near as friendly as FlagOut.
FlagOut gives you an edit-window. Facebook doesn’t.
With Facebook it’s delete and repost.
Do it enough times, and Facebook goes ballistic.
Turgid warnings of gloom-and-doom.
The warning appeared in my e-mail — long after dire Facebook warnings of digital Armageddon.
Techno-Nazies!

  • “FlagOut” is our family’s web-site, named that because I had a mentally-retarded kid-brother (Down Syndrome) who lived at home, and loudly insisted the flag be flown every day. “Flag-Out! Sun comes up, the flag goes up! Sun goes down, the flag comes down.” I fly the flag partly in his honor. (He died at 15 in 1969.)

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