Late Night Fiction Avoiding the “kool-aid” everyone likes so much

8Apr/100

Facebook really pisses me off

This, the most popular website in the world behind Google, gets on my nerves. It's the typical story of greed. Look! All these people spend hours a day in our little virtual world! It's control. People have this shit on their phones. On their phones. One of my friend gets a little ching every time she gets a Facebook notification on her Blackberry. What does she do? Pause the rest of the world around her to-- check her Facebook.

I feel like there's a point where being a part of someone's life turns into controlling them. I like Google. I would sell my soul to Google with how much I trust them; "Don't be evil." -- says it all. And I feel like they live by that. Facebook lives by money. Fuck money. Facebook, as a whole, you're an idiot. You don't have a motto like Google-- why? Because when the next opportunity to rake in some cash comes, you want to make sure you don't have any of those pesky morals that will get in your way. No, no. You need your green.

And sure, Google has all the information about every search I've made and what places and directions I've looked for on their maps and even all the websites I've created that host rants like this. But if anything, they have more information about who I really am as a person than Facebook will ever have. Google has my interests, hobbies, places I see, things I see-- like a good friend. Facebook has my social interactions; my social interactions that consist solely of bullshitting and people-pleasing. Google is like my best guy friend and Facebook is the controlling girlfriend that I can never escape. Google is there whenever I need it and doesn't bitch when I go off to do my own thing. Facebook stalks me all around the web and tries to keep me in check.

"Facebook requires all users [...]" -- yeah, exactly.

Fuck you, Facebook.

26Jan/090

A Good Time-Spender

Want to do something that will both expend all your mental energy and produce little valuable experience at the same time? Watch videos on YouTube about varying sides on Atheism (and move through them through the related videos and video responses).

It's like listening to people on video walkie-talkies. Where it takes five minutes to hear a spiel about why a religion is good or bad, only to get a subsequent ten-minute response about why the person is stupid or uses straw-man arguments.

31Aug/080

The Future

Now that I'm in college, things have been changing. Mostly old habits, but one thing that will change is my sites. And by that, of course, I mean FlashStuf. It's always been geared at my own age bracket, and a quick demographics report courtesy of quantcast.com confirmed that the teen crowd is really who my site attracts. Well, I think it's about time for a change so I'm starting to, continuing over the next few months/years, move up an age bracket into the "young adult" audience for FlashStuf and out of the teen audience. How I'm going to do that isn't quite obvious after only two days on my own, but that is the direction I'm headed in.

If you are a FlashStuf visitor or have some ideas that could really take us in this direction, just drop a comment.