Toy not with the Master!

Another stunt by Hollywood and the dreaded media. (Photo by Bryan Mahoney.)

“FER HEAVEN SAKE!” I yelled at my iPhone.
“Facebook wants a log-in. Sometimes it does, most often it doesn’t.
This some ‘every-couple-days’ thingy?” I asked.
I put my iPhone back in my pocket.
My iPhone also gets my e-mail. So I get Facebook’s e-mail notifications of postings by my “friends.”
My good friend Bryan Mahoney, a reporter at The Mighty Mezz when I was there, an actual friend, who now lives in L.A., was as in ‘Nam, and posted the above pic to his Facebook.
I got a Facebook e-mail notification, so viewed his picture on my iPhone. No problems, a slam-dunk. Later I got another e-mail notification Mahoney “liked” a comment I made, so I clicked that to “view on Facebook.”
Uh-ooooooh; Facebook wants me to log in.
What is it with you guys? Sometimes you want me to log in, but most times you don’t. —And of course I never get this on my laptop, perhaps because I never “log-out.”
I never log-out my iPhone either, that I know of.
This morning another Facebook e-mail notification from AnMari Linardi, also ex of the Mighty Mezz, also a Facebook “friend.”
I clicked it: boom-zoom; viewed her comment on Facebook. I guess she was on Facebook, because I immediately got another e-mail of her response to a comment I made.
CRASH; Facebook wants me to log-in.
Yet another unknowable from SuckerBird and his lackeys.
Engage guile-and-cunning.
My iPhone’s Safari browser still has two Facebooks running. One is AnMari’s original post, and second is Facebook demanding I log in.
Uhm, if AnMari’s original post is running, I’m already logged in. I guess I better not kill that, thereby avoiding their most recent log-in entreaty, which I dumped.
So now if I fire up Safari on my iPhone, I get AnMari’s original post. I dare not kill that lest Facebook want me to log in.
“Take that, SuckerBird!” I say. “I just ran rings around yer logic;” quoting Monty Python’s “Penguin” skit .

• The “Mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired 12 years ago. Best job I ever had — I was employed there almost 10 years — over 11 if you count my time as a post-stroke unpaid intern. (I had a stroke October 26th, 1993, from which I recovered fairly well).
• “SuckerBird “ is Mark Zuckerberg, founder and head-honcho of Facebook.