Just over two years ago, I wrote a blog post entitled “Does a rose by 58 other names smell as sweet?” where I talked about Facebook’s attempt to allow users to specify more than just a gender binary of male…
Tag: Facebook
Don’t forget Facebook!
Often I have little snippets of blogette to post and don’t feel like they really belong here on my ‘proper’ blog, so I post them to my public Facebook page instead. Sometimes these are incorporated later into a more formal…
Mini rant: Facebook
I really hate Facebook sometimes (no, bear with me). I saw a post from a friend I haven’t heard from much in a while, clicked on their name to get to their wall, and saw loads of posts that never…
Me: Sort by “Most Recent” please.FB: OK you’re the boss! …FB: Hey! I thought you may have changed your mind! So I put it back to “Top Stories”!Me: Wait.. what? No! I didn’t change my mind. “Most Recent” please!FB: Oh,…
I’m on Twitter!
I’ve been getting increasingly annoyed with Facebook of late. In case you are not aware, ever since Facebook introduced “Promote”, you only see about 20% of the posts that anyone makes unless they pay to promote them. So for getting…
Does a rose by 58 other names smell as sweet?
Facebook recently vastly expanded the gender option you can select for yourself on your profile, adding a bewildering 56 additional gender declarations to the more traditional “male” and “female”. Well, for users of US English anyway; those of us who…