Leaving Facebook

I’m pretty sure I am going to close my facebook account next week.

I’m a very open guy about my life – hell I documented everything I did for years on my old site Scotsmanality, with pictures and everything. There’s not much people don’t know about me. But the more I think about it, the more I realize how creepy and fucked up Facebook is.

I was having a conversation with a friend about a month back. He had just hooked up with a new girlfriend, and he was telling me about her. He said “But check this weird thing she posted on her facebook” and proceeded to post a status update with her name attached to it.

Within 5 minutes, I was able to know all the intimate details of her life. Just by searching her name, I was able to find her profile. From there I was able to see pictures of her growing up, pictures of her with her family, what her nephews looked like, where she spent last Summer on vacation, what books she just finished reading, what TV shows she liked to watch. Hell, I knew she had an iPhone, what concerts she was planning on attending – everything. From there I was able to view her friends list, and if I so desired look at her parents facebook pages and find out everything about them.

That’s fucked up.

Me and my friend then had a long conversation about privacy on facebook, and how there isn’t any. Plus one thing that I always find fucked up is you don’t know who is viewing your profile, or who is spying on you. So I decided to do a quick test: my facebook profile and everything on it was currently open to everyone. Any random googler could find out everything about me, see pictures of my family, see what I did for a living, and everything else.

So I blocked it all.

I did all the privacy settings changes, so that only people on my friends list could see any information about me. Everyone else who was e-stalking me were completely shit out of luck. I wondered if the people that visited my profile regularly would then add me as a friend. I figured I might get 2 or 3 requests, but that would be it.

35 requests. in 48 hours. From people I barely knew, people who were friends of a friend, people who I went to school with, people in the industry I work on. 35 different people had visited my profile, saw it was all private, and wanted to add me as a friend.

Again, very fucked up.

I just don’t know how people can use facebook, especially with all the trust issues. Hell, there was a super easy exploit to view other peoples live chats history just a few days ago. God knows what they are doing behind the scenes at facebook.

I’ll sleep on it, but I’m pretty sure I am done. And seriously – if something like this creeps ME out, then it should really be making you think twice.

photo upload test

Just testing how the photo upload shit works with my blackberry. If no photo is attached to this post then consider this a massive failure of epic proportions!

Kids say the darndest things

Actually just testing out posting from my Blackberry here.

Anyway on our front porch it looks like some birds are starting to build a nest. I pointed this out to the kids, and their responses couldn’t be more different.

Ella: “cute!!!”

Mason: “They are moron”
“They’re not morons. ”
“Well they’re idiots then. ”

A proud moment I shall treasure forever for sure. Can’t ever argue with kid logic.

Better Blackberry = More Blogging!

Been having a lot of problems with my Blackberry Bold 9000 lately. Just slow as shit, battery life crap etc. Decided to do a whole factory reset and then get the latest software. On top of that I bought the Memory Booster App which really helped matters, and now it’s super fast again.

To take advantage of the new found speed, first thing I did was get a new theme for the Blackberry to spice it up again. So my home screen has went from:

to:

If you’re thinking “Hey, that looks similar to an iphone layout” then it won’t surprise you to find out the name of the theme: Miphone 3G. I really like that layout though, as it’s a lot better having that many icons on the screen as it saves me from having to go a menu deep the majority of the time.

Along with that I installed a bunch of new apps, including the WordPress for Blackberry App, hence the whole reason for the title of this blog. It’s not the greatest app in the world but it works well enough, and will allow me to blog with ease. I’ve never really been a fan of Twitter(I’m sure that surprises um – zero of you) so it’ll be good to have the ability to mobile blog.

Other than that what is going on? Well I’ve been very busy. May is going to be a write-off for me when it comes to work. I’m off to Edmonton for a few days in May. Also in the first two weeks of May my mom is visiting, then the second two weeks my sister is visiting. Add in a trip to Montreal for UFC, my daughters birthday(we’re having a fucking PETTING ZOO) and not much work is going to be done in May.

So I’ve been working like CRAZY the past couple of weeks, just so I can take the majority of May off and not have to worry about anything, hence the real lack of blog posts. I haven’t even played video games in a long long time – I still have Bioshock 2 sitting gathering dust for example. I haven’t even watched much TV other than sports. I’ve watched up to and including episode 512 of Lost, and I plan on wrapping up season 5 then watching season 6 during my flight to and fro Edmonton.

I started watching My Name Is Earl as my background show while I work, but meh. It’s an okay show, but nothing special at all. A couple of funny moments in it but not something I’d recommend to others. I’m way behind on actual TV too – I’m only 4 episodes into the Celebrity Apprentice for example, and haven’t watched shows like HIMYM, Big Bang Theory or The Office for weeks.

That’s the problem come playoff time – it’s on every night, and it’s tough to watch anything else. Not that I am complaining – love NBA & NHL and wasting my nights watching it is great.

That’s pretty much it for me. Back to work!