OT: facebook intrusiveness

Lisa Kachold lisakachold at obnosis.com
Sun May 16 04:46:18 MST 2010


On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:09 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

>
> I don't use facebook much ... mainly only to respond to friends and family
> who send stuff to me.  It just seems rather intrusive and confusing to me.
>
> Recently, facebook has been popping up a window that wants me to confirm
> some links that it "threatens" to put on my facebook page and "forces" me
> to either confirm them all or click on a link with check boxes for various
> things that I am told I have to uncheck if I don't want those links
> included on my page. Everything on my page is grayed out and I am forced
> to respond to facebook's demands in one way or another.  Below is the
> message I see in their popped up window that locks up everything else:
>
> "Confirm the Pages that will be on your profile
> Uncheck any Page you don't want to link to. Linking to education and work
> Pages may also create additional Pages, such as for your major or job
> title. If you don't link to any Pages, these sections on your profile will
> be empty. By linking your profile to Pages, you will be making these
> connections public. Learn more."
>
> I can't even close and exit the facebook page.
>
> So, at the command line, I type "xkill" and blow away my current Firefox
> login. But even then, if I restart Firefox too soon, it restarts facebook
> with the same "do it facebook's way or else" pop-up.  So, I use "xkill"
> again and then I have to wait for a while before I can restart Firefox.
>
> What's up with this kind of "I WILL control you and your every action and
> you can't do anything about it" garbage?
>

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