I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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A) Neither Facebook nor VICE actually ran anything about 2G1C on his page. There is a story (randomly selected from current VICE headlines) "asking" (news, duh, they know why, they're just issuing a call to action headline) why the dude behind 2G1C is in jail. Could be that it's related to the whole 2G1C video. But probably it's that he got a DUI or some crap. I mean, it's not really even news, and it's only tangentially related to 2G1C in the first place. Anyone who thinks that Johnny Wonny actually likes 2G1C (as opposed to liking the sort of news that VICE provides, an example of which is front and center) is an idiot who needs to work on basic internet reading comprehension skills.
B) It doesn't change the fact that Johnny Wonny LIKED VICE in the first place. Probably because he liked the sort of news that VICE provides him. Which is sort of the point of liking stuff, isn't it?
Considering Graph Search's capabilities, if you're going to continue to use Facebook, you should probably go unlike EVERYTHING right now...
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