How do You Blackmail People Into Using Useless Facebook Apps and Twitter?
Visited 378 Times Published by Rico October 16th, 2007 in How, Internet, Rico's Ramblings, Spam and Tech.A few weeks ago, some active Twits (quite a suitable name for people who use Twitter, doncha think?) conspired to get me on the micro-blogging service. They called me by forbidden names, knowing that since I don’t have a Twitter account, I wasn’t around to impose my will.
More recently, I found out that I was someone’s “pet” on Facebook. People were selling and buying me like property, and I couldn’t keep that from happening because I didn’t install the Facebook app that let me do so. Honestly, what’s so great about treating your friends as pets? What happened to respect and keeping it realz? Still, my friends consider me a dog or something with impunity.
In other words, the best way to blackmail people into using useless Facebook apps and Twitter is to make them feel excluded or non-participatory if they don’t. I guess you can call that “marketing”, since everything I’ve narrated here is about creating a need that was previously non-existent. But it’s still a strange world when I suddenly feel that I have treat other people as animals or share the minutae of my life just to fit in.
Oh well, I guess I have to reiterate: I will never let the world know about my boring life (imagine reading “Just came from the toilet. Ah… crapping is so great!”), nor will I stop having high-standards regarding the Facebook apps I install. Never!
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So essentially you have been twitted into twitter by twits who twit you without mercy.
Oh how twittering !
There is one app in Facebook you should get you will see by the end of the day
I have yet to receive the invitation, nor have I checked my Facebook profile.
What is it?
The MySpacification of Facebook has begun!
It’s either you or somebody else. Which one will it be? Hmpft.
Eugene: Oh noes! At least Facebook won’t let you change the look of your user profile into something totally illegible and garish. At least not yet!
Sasha: How ’bout nobody?
Is ethics dead in the cyberworld?
The anonymity of the online world has killed ethics a long time, but I still think you’re taking my post too seriously.
Ah! So I guess that is when you stopped sending me those Facebook app invites.
The list of my notifications and invites at Facebook is never ending. Haha. :-p
Vyoma: Yes, I realized how irritating they could be! Haha!
Prudence: Oh no, not you too?!
hehehehe