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 |   A tentative blog to test the temperature. |
| Facebook Follies Lately, I’ve been ambushed by Facebook. It’s part of my boot up procedure every morning, although I never bother with it during the rest of the day. I open it just so that, on opening or closing it each day, I can see whether any friends or relatives have commented. Normally, I would spend a couple of minutes there on my way to WdC. But a few weeks ago, it laid a trap for me. It started putting Calvin and Hobbes cartoons every few posts. I have never told Facebook that I love Calvin and Hobbes, so why it should suddenly decide to throw them at me, I have no idea. Just part of the irrational mess that is Facebook, I guess. The problem is that it works. I find myself scrolling further and further down in the hope of another C & H cartoon. And there’s always another one. There are days when I get lost in Facebook for half an hour or more and that’s a fair chunk out of my day - more than FB warrants, that’s for sure. But I can see light at the end of the tunnel. They’re beginning to run out of C & H strips. I can tell because there are more and more repeats. Plus, they’ve started to try out other cartoons on me as well. No luck there, I’m afraid. Never did think much of Beetle Bailey. So it looks as though I’ll soon be able to reclaim those lost hours in Facebook. Though I’ll miss Calvin and Hobbes, it’s true. Word count: 258 |
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