I hear there wuz a big glitch in the stock market yestiddy, so I looked in the New York Times for the scoop on it. Turns out stocks fallin’ over 900 points in 2 shakes of a lamb’s tail, an’ people losin’ billions’a dollars wadn’ nuthin compared t’the real calamity.
An’ whut wuz the real calamity you ask? Well jist looky here:
Ri’tare in the NYT wuz this scary piece: “Facebook Glitch Brings New Privacy Worries”
Here’s the thang. “On Wednesday, users discovered a glitch that gave them access to supposedly private information in the accounts of their Facebook friends, like chat conversations.”
Dang! Y’mean all my friend’ve found out whut I really been sayin’ about’em? I never thought I’d live t’see the day! Here’s whut jist one man had t’say… “Facebook has become more scary than fun,” said Jeffrey P. Ament, 35, a government contractor who lives in Rockville, Md.
Mr. Ament said he was so fed up with Facebook that he deleted his account this week after three years of using the service. “Every week there seems to be a new privacy update or change, and I just can’t keep up with it.”
An fokes, air’s a smart man. He’s a gummint contractor’n all. If he’s been spendin’ all at time with the thang f’three years, an he’s got problems with it, there’s REAL trouble in th’world.
Stock market be damned! (Sorry mama, I jist had t’use the REAL D word at time). Billions a’dollars ain’t nuthin in the face’a Facebook glitches. An’ messin’ up ‘at big gummint contractor! Well, he coulda had atomic secrets in his Facebook vault. I mean everbody knows it’s safe t’put your whole life in’air.
The Times went on… “Facebook said it did not think the security hole, which was open a few hours, would have a lasting impact on the company’s reputation.”
I shore hope not. I’d shore hate t’thank whut the world would come to if we couldn’ trust Facebook. I mean th’banks fell in a hole. The gummint’s been stretchin’ the truth (I’m tryin t’be polite, now) f’years an years. An’ everbody knows ‘em boys on Wall Street’s got our numbers. ‘Ey stole ALL our numbers so long ago that we all jist got numb an’ don’t expect nuthin’ else.
So when Facebook came along, I thought I could face life anew. But now? Life’s jist a big question mark agin.
It’s like Siggy said a long time ago. “…we men… find reality generally quite unsatisfactory” –Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis (1910)
