Damn You Zuckerberg!13

by Bob Suicide

I have this love/hate relationship with all kinds of social networking — mostly because I’m anti-social. But, also because I often feel like new “features” are thrust upon me when I never felt like I was utilizing the existing features to their full, socially invasive potential.

So it goes without saying that I warily accepted an invite to Google+. And, even now, I’m not entirely sure that it’s a platform I want to “boldly go” to. You know what they say: “MySpace me once, shame on Tom. Facebook me twice, shame on me.”

Every time I check my RSS feed I find out Facebook has “secretly” rolled out some new “awesome” feature that I have to go through seven rings of hell and the fires of Mordor to de-activate. It drives me crazy — although it does give Lifehacker something to blog about. The geeky side of me wants to be involved in the ongoing evolution of online interaction, but the 70-year old man in me wants Zuckerberg to get off my virtual lawn.

So, with Facebook’s recent implementation of face recognition functionality, and the announcement of a Facebook phone and rumored new Facebook integrated Skype-powered video chat feature, I fear that I for one do not welcome our new networking overloads, and a little bit of geek in me dies.

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