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Facebook Friend Swap
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Now this is just an idea, but take a look at the "average" facebook user and you'll see that they have 100, 200, 300 or more friends.
More friends than one could ever possibly keep in touch with on anything approaching a meaningful basis. But there's a sort of prestige to this social networking thing, defined by your number of friends, so people keep on collecting them despite the fact they never chat, see each other or in anyways meaningfully communicate. I'll ignore this though as it's irrelevant to the purpose I'll describe.
This is it: Once a year - We'll call it "Facebook Friend Swap Day" (or "FFSD" as the internet loves acronyms). On that day facebook will automatically send you a list of friends (and a simlar list to your friends, and all users) that you/they haven't communicated with for, say, 6 months.
6 months is arbitrary, depending on how the idea takes hold we can adjust this. It's 6 months for the sake of argument.
Now with this list is a letter suggesting that they or you perhaps recommend to them friends more to your/their tastes. And so you drop them and take on a new friend request - someone with whom you'll doubtless have a little more in common with. It doesn't even have to be a "drop", which by implication is negative (and who likes to drop or be dropped?), it could simply be recommendation to a new friend, the acceptance of which constitutes a "swap".
Single people (Note the bare-chested profile photos of "Men interested in Women") will certainly benefit, as obviously they weren't doing so well if they're still single and they'll have a whole new cadre of unsuspecting suckers friends to try their charms upon. Those not single will benefit by having new friends possibly a little more to their tastes. And everyone will have a chance to make new friends and to exchange (without seeming rude) those friends they've very little in common with.
Facebook Friend Swap Day. I should start a group.
Under Siege
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm in a tower - medieval, inside the tower there's a queen sized bed, around the bed there's a deep moat and all around both the moat and the bed there's the walls of the tower.
We've stashed all the furniture in the moat, all my possessions, and we're under siege. Missiles are coming in through the top of the tower, landing on the heaps of furniture in the moat, so far, at least, they're missing the bed.
It's George Bush and his son, George Bush, I don't know what I've done to offend them but the missiles still keep falling, still missing the bed. They're mostly squibs, small explosions on the furniture, and they seem to be getting more intermittent, they're running out of ammunition. I'm glad, I don't want all my furniture to be wrecked.
The Introduction
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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Like almost all the books I read, I haven't read this one and so start at the beginning.
I'm funny that way, I start at one cover, then read straight through until I reach the other. The only exception is when the footnotes and annotations are compiled in an index in the back of the book, then I sometimes flip back and forth, but generally reading for me is a linear experience.
But there's often the introduction to consider.
The Introduction, as you might guess, introduces the book, it puts the book, the author, the characters, in context with the time and culture in which it was written.
I have no problem with this, in fact in can be helpful.
However I do have a problem with the tendency of the plot to go a little "too" in depth on the plot, with the revealing of crucial plot points and character developments all so that whatever hack was commissioned to write the introduction can further his academic credentials. This is unacceptable. If anything is to be given away - plot, events, characterwise - then let the introduction follow instead as an epilogue, where it will spoil nothing. I'll still read it, I mean, if the book is so ominous that it requires an introduction or epilogue then of course I'll read it, if only to compare interpretations, but my reading of the authors text will be fresh and new as the author intended.
1884 - Yesterdays Future
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This could be interesting. Terry Gilliam, when not great, is at the very least interesting, but we'll have to wait and see...
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