E-Dribble

Man, Facebook is taking a lot of heat lately.  Who would have thought that people shortsighted enough to hand over all of their information to a pre-pubescent megalomaniac with no sense of propriety would get so upset over having their information used to make money in spite of their having selected the option to keep the data private.

So, it’s no wonder that Facebook decided to change the way they monetized on the information you chose to make private.

Nah, I’m just shitting you.  They hired a regulator from the Bush administration to defend their actions in the face of a governmental investigation.  Because if anyone can defend the stripping of the peoples’ rights, it’s someone from the Bush administration.

Anyone that has read a couple posts of mine is at risk of thinking that I’m either Amish or just a curmudgeon that abhors the new social society.  Not true.  I simply was never willing to sign up for Zuckerberg’s sham of a site.  I would love nothing more than to have a prospective employer find out I’m a proud member of the “Gay Lovers of Balloon Animals” or reconnect with that first woman I disappointed as well as my childhood friend that asked if he could play “hide the sausage” with me. I just need a system that isn’t as flawed as Facebook to do it with.  I would wager all of my chips on Diaspora(I refuse to include the damned asterisk).  A new social system developed by a few nerds that really dislike Facebook, it’s the first I’ve seen that actually looks like it might come to fruition.  They’re still in early development, so you’ll just have to wait a while before you can friend me so you can watch me change my status from “bored” to “hungry”.