Wednesday 13 June 2012

too stupid for facebook

after what seems like months, and is quite probably years, of people telling me i should be on that facebook i've finally decided to dip a toe into the waters of the devilish media. not that i can actually use it. i had to go via other people's pages in order to find out what it was supposed to look like. even more stalkerish than google maps! i kind of thought there might be a search thing (and apparently there should be) but not on my page. i look at it blankly. i google stuff to tell me how to work it. they tell me i have menus that i do not have, basic commands to use that it seems are absent from my account. they should be there but they are not. aim the unusability of it all!


normally i'd be in a computer induced rage by now. and yet i am not. i know all the arguments for why i should 'engage' and even if i'm able to let go of my many reasons for not using it up to this point i'm still left with apple's kindly spellchecker insisting i should capitalise the f. for that reason alone i feel happy to admit that i, alone among my peers, am too thick for facebook. i shall try to bear up under the ignominy....

11 comments:

Marion McCready said...

welcome to the ultimate time-wasting activity :) I shall search you out!

swiss said...

ha! i'll need to make it work first! lol

Rachel Fox said...

just in time for the mass boycott... maybe...
x

swiss said...

i've been boycotting it for years - always swimming against the tide!

swiss said...

which was fine when i thought i could work it if i wanted. not quite so fine now that i now i can't!

Marion McCready said...

I take it you're not the morgan downie with the supermario as your profile pic lol

swiss said...

i'm not the morgan downie anyone right now as really, i can't get it to work!

Niamh B said...

Ha, my current post is fbook related too, an awful time sucker it is, b sure and friend me, tho i don't use it much

Niamh B said...

Ha, my current post is fbook related too, an awful time sucker it is, b sure and friend me, tho i don't use it much

swiss said...

fear not, as soon as t shows me the error of my ways...

Claire A said...

Don't do it! If you're out of it, stay out of it. I have been using it for years and just recently, I'm boycotting... and I have HOURS of my life back that I didn't know I was wasting on this drivel. Resist!