What hath Facebook wrought?

Tehachapi (“tuh-HATCH-uh-PEE”) Loop.
(Tehachapi Loop, in south-central California, is probably the most famous railfan pilgrimage stop on the entire planet. It’s the Southern Pacific Railroad’s climb of the Tehachapi Mountains, at the south end of the San Joaquin valley; thought to never be possible. It’s an engineering triumph, partly because it includes a loop over itself. Santa Fe Railroad has trackage-rights.)
—I’ve seen it.

I uploaded a photograph (the one above) to PhotoBucket®.
PhotoBucket is where I store all my image-files.
The photo you see is from PhotoBucket; the image-source is PhotoBucket.
My PhotoBucket account is nothing special. I ain’t storing artsy pictures by myself.
I only went with PhotoBucket because my BlogSpot picture storage maxxed out — I think it was Picassa.
Nothing artsy there either.
Just illustrations for these blogs.
Quite often they aren’t even my pictures; just screenshots of stock photos by unnamed photographers available for free use.
Upload complete; now name photograph.
I click that, but what do I see?
“Link this photograph to your Facebook.
Be first to ‘like’ it.”
For cryin’ out loud!
Facebook is barging into everything.
Reports are on the news about web-sites linking to Facebook to grab your profile information.
Facebook claims you can avoid that by making your profile information private.
All you hafta be is a techno-maven.
I have a Facebook myself, although I consider it a “fast-one” on Facebook’s part.
I received an e-mail “friend” invite from another Facebook user.
I responded, not knowing I was thereby setting up a Facebook of my own.
I’d like to kill it — I don’t pay it much heed anyway — and it has locked my computer.
But I can’t — at least, not that I can see.
About all I can do is walk away from it.
I keep it open because I have friends who use Facebook.
Makes a lotta sense.
Be first to “like” your own photograph.
And it wasn’t even mine.
It’s a screenshot of a Wikipedia Commons stock photograph.

• I’m a railfan, and have been since age-two — I’m currently 66.