Facebook is for fools....and I refuse to be one.

I don't like Facebook and I refuse to ever have a Facebook account.

Coming from a guy who writes a Blog that sounds odd but I think each blog is unique...no one sets the form or content here but me....NO " Big Brother" setting up the landscape...just me expressing my thoughts on the page.....you can comment or not....it is up to you.

While I understand that makes me out-of-step with the accepted trend of the day, I feel that this is the right thing for me. The idea of what Facebook represents is unsettling. The whole idea of "oversharing" every little detail of my life with anyone else who wants to see it is NOT something I want to participate in....I share somethings here but no one knows where I am or what I am doing...my posts here are like news stories and are edited to make sure I only state my mind not share every little detail with everyone.

I know, on Facebook, you only have to "friend" those you want to, you can limit my access, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry to burst your bubble BUT the minute you upload some data (pictures, names, etc.) it is out of your control and is on a server somewhere. If you believe for one minute that any data on any server is "secure", you are living a fool's fantasy. it CAN and WILL be hacked if someone wants it bad enough.

" I just like to share stuff with my friends." - Who in turn will share it with all their friends, and so on, and so on.....This has got to be one of the dumbest things people do....Updating my status !!
"I'm off to NYC for the weekend !" - Great, you just let everyone know they should come over to rob your place.

The idea of groups of people getting together online sounds great in principle but are you really sure you want to allow so many people easy access to you, your family or your life?? It has NOT been the best course to pursue....

Let's look at a few headlines, shall we??? This is the SHITE I am talking about:


Facebook picture leads to sex assault bust
UPI.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
15 (UPI) -- A Chicago-area man was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl after her mother found a picture of the couple having sex on Facebook

Calif. man admits using Facebook to hack e-mail accounts
Washington Post - Don Thompson - ‎16 hours ago‎
A California man has admitted using personal information he gleaned from Facebook to hack into women's e-mail accounts, download nude....

Girls target former high school friend with lewd Facebook profiles
10 Connects - ‎4 hours ago‎
Two Florida girls have been arrested for creating fake Facebook pages and putting pictures of their former friend's head on prepubescent girl's bodies....

Teenage girl arrested after alarming Facebook postings
WTEN - ‎1 hour ago‎
... a teenage girl with a misdemeanor of Aggravated Harassment in the 2 nd degree, after she used expletive words on her Facebook page regarding.....

Minister gets five years in sex sting
Kansas City Star - Glenn E. Rice - ‎18 hours ago‎
A minister was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for using Facebook to entice someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl to meet him ...


And on and on and on. Not that "social media" is inherently bad BUT the preoccupation that people have developed with Facebook and the narcissistic nature of it has driven obsession to a point where Goldman Sachs recently valued Facebook at $50 BILLION Dollars.....$50B...Are you F&*king kidding me?? They don't "make" anything and the innovation they have created is dysfunctional....I am not against progress but not all "new" ideas are good or should be this integrated into our lives.

Zuckerberg is not visionary as he purloined the idea of Facebook from something different.

" An earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, the prep school from which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, “The Photo Address Book,” which students referred to as “The Facebook.” Such photo directories were an important part of the student social experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to list attributes such as their class years, their proximities to friends, and their telephone numbers."

They also had student directories at Harvard called " Face Books" that gave you info about who lived in the different dorms at Harvard.

Like Bill Gates, who didn't invent Windows (Gates bought DOS off another engineer and copied a system like Windows from a demo system he saw at Xerox) Zuckerberg is only a salesman. Gates is the same....they may be entrepreneurs, BUT they are not visionary.....they used others ideas and try to pass it off as if they were like Edison building the first light bulb.

In this celebrity obsessed society, the media and others push things like Facebook onto people. They prop up the story, promote people like Gates & Zuckerberg as geniuses and try to make it more than it really is. They are really good salesmen but I am not buying it.

Too many people have the "sheep mentality" and allow themselves to be dragged along by the crowd...What many call "quality" and "revolutionary" will soon fade...Facebook will not always be so attractive and it has a shelf life (Like Myspace and AOL, etc.)....people will look back at this from the future and wonder what all the fuss was about or how they could have been stupid enough to indulge in it.....Like a hangover, they will have had their fun and have to pay for the stupid behavior of when they were "drunk" on Facebook ....Like any other hangover they will look at their behavior and wonder why they posted something that cost them a job, a friend (a real friend in real life) or a marriage......stupid is forever and the stupid things people put on the web will be there forever as others copy it and send it along.....

Don't be a "sheeple".....chart your own course and live a purposeful life. Make real friends and if you need to reach someone, send them a e-mail. then, get together in person and speak face-to-face....you'll enjoy that much more. Trust me.

When you resist the temptation to join this stupidity, don't post the pictures of you and your friends getting drunk or doing something stupid (which in turn your new perspective employer WON'T see because they are not on Facebook), you'll thank me.

Really....why would you share details about all these things with 500 million other Facebook users you wouldn't like to tell your Mom??? Think about it..... and if you don't believe me, type "anti facebook" into Google and see what you get back.

The Dumbing Down of the News - Journalism keeps sinking to new lows

Another " Really? " Moment..... Has journalism sunk this low?

I like to read the news, always have and always will. I became a news junkie at a very young age of 4 when my Dad would bring home three newspapers each day and I would go through them to find the Comics. I loved them and it was cool to be able to read the different papers as each offered pictures and other cool stuff.

I still like to read the news and presently, the Internet offers a news junkie's delight as there are website galore that are dedicated to providing the latest news from around the world.

The news that I see and what is presented as NEWS is what troubles me....That some of what is sent along could actually be important enough that it constitutes a "news worthy" item...

For Example, the headlines today are a perfect example of what I mean:

" Great Britain's Prince William and his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton are engaged. " - OK, the Royal Family are famous but is this really that big enough news that it rates a Headline?? Social page maybe but not top headlines unless you live in England

" Thanks, Sarah Palin: 'Refudiate' Dubbed Word of the Year " Sarah Palin is either scorned or cheered but again, is this newsworthy? Unless she declares to run for President, then it may be newsworthy. Until then, not so much.

" Did Jessica Simpson Pay for Her Own $100000 Ring? " - Seriously, who flippin' cares?

" The Price 20-Somethings Pay to Live in the City" - A fluff piece in the NY TIMES about the plight of the youngsters who want to live in NYC but have trouble affording it or finding a place that " suits them " - One idjit in this story has his MOTHER paying his rent - " Does his mother, who’s paying his rent, worry about him? " Again, how is this NEWSWORTHY that some 20 year old knucklehead has his Mother paying the rent so he can live in NYC?? And this is important how?

" Kanye West Vs. Matt Lauer: The Feud Escalates " AND " Jay-Z decodes life through lyrics with new book; defends Kanye and Obama" - Really?? Do any of us need to know anything these two mouth-breathers have to say about anything? Kanye West & Jay-Z are NOT important to what the rest of us need to know and their opinions are anything BUT important. They are two marguinal talents propped up by the youth obsessed culture that treats what they do as art. If what they do is art, so is the sound made by my Old Jeep.

Listen to this idiot spout his drivel - Jay-Z: " I wanted to tell the story of a generation. Through my story, I'm telling the story of a generation of kids, and we grew up in one of the worst eras ever"

REALLY?? One of the worst eras ever??? In comparison to the Depression era, WW2 Era, The Cold War Era, The Vietnam Era, Etc?? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME ?? Up until the last two years, America and the standard of Living has been at it's highest levels ever over the last 50 years so what is he talking about??? Jay-Z spends much of "Decoded" talking about his career as a drug dealer - REALLY?? As if that is something we want to glorify with glowing tributes to his written words - NO, We Should not. He should not be able to brag about the drugs he sold and the pain he caused others.

This is more drivel and to support OBAMA and Kanye West shows that this cretin has no integrity, honor or standing as he supports the dumbing down of America.

The news should be information we need to know and help keep the public informed on important issues. What some celebrity thinks about a Political issue is as important has what the guy who sells newspapers on the corner thinks about it... Just because people pay idiots with a microphone like Jay-Z or Kanye to make "music" (allegedly) doesn't mean they are experts on other subjects that deserve recognition, no more than the guy who repairs your car should be consulted about world affairs.

It is a symptom of a larger problem of a celebrity / youth obsessed culture in our country, driven by the idea that we must tailor our world to the lowest intelligence level and the 14- 25 year old demographic. The MTV age group is somehow regarded higher than those who work, pay the bills and put food on the table each day for their family...

I am decidedly middle-aged but far from "out-of-it". It bothers me that all the rest of society eats up this terrible drivel without looking at what is served up and saying, " Really? As if this is worthy of my time or effort."

If we rejected this crappola for what it is, maybe (just maybe) the media will stop serving it. One could only hope.

Meanwhile, while idijits are focusing on the wastrels of Hollywood, we have true American Heroes fight & dying for our freedom and trying to keep us safe from those who want to kill us and our country....Maybe that is worthy of a little more attention after all.....I believe so and so should any sane citizen. Tell the Oprahs and the Kanye West's of the world to take a flying leap, we are going to focus on what really matters. The news will be devoted to issues that truly effect our lives and not a bunch of self-obsessed, shallow, dumb-it-down idijits acting out.

That would be news and HIGHLY newsworthy.