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There has been backlash against Facebook after it was involved in a psychology experiment that manipulated the news feeds of 700,000 users without their knowledge to see if "exposure to emotions led people to change their own posting behaviours" (i.e. if being exposed to negative posts meant users were more likely to post negative comments themselves).
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Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
(Score: 5, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday June 30 2014, @03:33PM
Yup, Facebook is shit. In fact, it's all shit. Facebook, this site, me, you... everything. I mean it's all just so completely crap and cynical, the whole world, and everything in it. Like dolphins. Fucking dolphins, they're especially shit, jumping about and splashing and clicking all over the goddamn place with their little smiley beak-mouths like everything's fine. I don't trust 'em, no sir. I bet fucking dolphins would like facebook, if they had like, waterproof phones and thumbs and shit, the smug, cetaceous little bastards. I can just imagine them, posting kissy-face selfies of themselves in front of baitballs and "liking" mackerel. What's so fucking great about mackerel? I tried it, it's just fish for crying out loud. Eat a salad or something for a change you aquatic freaks. Not that salad is any better, if I'm being honest. I mean what's a salad but a bunch of stupid overpriced lettuce leaves? And what are lettuce leaves but slightly crunchy water? So why not just drink some godammned water? Oh yeah, that's right, because it's WATER and not, like BEER or something almost worth drinking. Except that beer is all pretentious, cynical, over-marketed bullshit nowadays too. You can't just go and buy a fucking beer now, it has to be craft-brewed from imported mountain spring water and organic recycled Fairtrade Peruvian hops and premium fucking barley lovingly moistened betwixt the thighs of Nepalese maidens before being roasted over the whisky-soaked embers of original rum barrels from the motherfucking HMS Trafalgar. Pretentious much? Get over yourselves and leave me alone you pissgargling narcissistic flipper-loving beer snob bimbos!
Sorry, I'm not normally like this. The negativity of the parent post seems to have changed my posting behaviour... Hmmm, someone ought to do some research on that.
(Score: 2) by metamonkey on Monday June 30 2014, @04:06PM
/slowclap
Okay 3, 2, 1, let's jam.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday June 30 2014, @04:33PM
That's an impressive rant. I wish that I could moderate it +1 Offtopic.
1702845791×2
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 01 2014, @01:08AM
You better not.... its funny as hell.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday June 30 2014, @04:48PM
You missed the part where male dolphins separate females from the herd and deny them food and sleep until they give in and have sex with them.
Oops...I think I'm reinforcing your point. Or debunking it. Or something...shut up, I'm eating mackerel! :)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Monday June 30 2014, @06:24PM
If I'm not mistaken, he's posted a modification of a George Carlin rant. Sounds like him, anyway.
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 2) by redneckmother on Tuesday July 01 2014, @05:04AM
Nah - s/he is proof of reincarnation (of Hunter S. Thompson, Jr.).
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 1) by Horse With Stripes on Monday June 30 2014, @06:02PM
I recommend that you start a Facebook group so others that share your beliefs can become virtual friends, share virtual feelings and all in all give a virtual shit about this.
(Score: 1) by darkfeline on Monday June 30 2014, @09:36PM
This is Douglas Adams, right? I'd go back and re-read it, but I seem to have misplaced by Douglas Adams anthology, much to my dismay.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 01 2014, @08:39AM
I don't recall ever seeing such a density of "shits" and "fucks" in Douglas Adams' work, but I could be wrong.