Let me say this right up front – Facebook is one of the most frustrating things in my life at this point. It sucks up a lot of time, they keep mucking around with things, seem to have little regard for the actual preferences of their users (and instead rely on what they think their users want – failing miserably on most every count), have a diminishing regard for the privacy of their users, and to top it all off, many of the users themselves are so negative and annoying that the more you read, the more it seems to suck your will to live.
And yet I continue to go back. I’m like some sort of hybrid addict/sadomasochist who just can’t by without my daily lashings. It’s a sickness I tells ya.
Originally, I’d hoped to post this on Facebook by having it import posts from my blog’s RSS feed and then re-post them to my profile as notes. It’s a fairly simple process that’s worked in the past, albeit slowly. However, when I wiped out my old WordPress install earlier this week and started over, I found that the feed wasn’t registering with Facebook anymore. Simple solution would be to just re-enter the feed location, right? Apparently, you’ve never tried working with Facebook. After slogging through the Fire Swamp and killing at least 5 Rodents Of Unusual Size, I was able to re-enter my feed… which Facebook then couldn’t “find”. Funny, it works just fine in my feed reader – imagine that, something else Facebook messed with and then didn’t bother to fix. So here I am on my own little lonely outpost screaming at the stars like the angry sheepherder. (Wow, that came off a tad depressing and self-indulgent, didn’t it? Best get back on track.)
So I’m taking a week off, starting Friday. We’ll see how long it takes to get the shakes.
