This is by way of a public service announcement for those who are ‘friends’ of mine on Facebook, or think they are but aren’t, or who would like to be, or for people who think they are ‘friends’ of mine but aren’t, because I have ‘unfriended’ them in the cause of the housekeeping I am about to describe.
Facebook seems to have gone all peculiar lately and I am having a hard time keeping track of its privacy settings. It could be that I have misunderestimated it. Notwithstanding inasmuch as which, in the cause of Saving Gee’s Privates Private Gee I have decided to interact with the Facebook world through this page, which I invite you to ‘like’, as over the course of the next few days and weeks I’ll be ‘unfriending’ everyone from my regular profile (typically, you have to do this one ‘friend’ at a time… and I have a lot of ‘friends’.) I might have peremptorily ‘unfriended’ you already – but please don’t be offended by this. I blame that nice Mr Zuckerberg.
You’ll find I am also on Google Plus, and keep getting announcements from people of whom I have not herd heard that I’ve been added to their ‘circles’ whether I want to be so added, or not. I’m going to have to go in there and clean that up, too. Augean Stables? Phooey. Hercules had it easy.
Someone adding you to a “circle” on Google Plus has absolutely no impact on what part of your output they can see or not. It’s literally equivalent to them bookmarking you in their web browser. Google is perhaps going overboard in notifying you of them, but I guess it’s better to know.
Thanks for that reassurance – in that case it’s no different from people ‘liking’ my new FB page.
I keep on saving Facebook – my hard drive is getting rather full now.
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Yet another reason I have no interest in either Facebook or Google+. How anybody can keep track of all of this stuff is beyond me.
One assumes that the recently deleted Mr. Wildye was a spammer, but I thought his comment was rather sweet, so I’m taking the liberty of quoting it:
Henry, how can you hide your light under a bushel? This poor man had an “absolute hard difficulty” and your professionalism shone through so much that he actually cried with delight. You should be roud to have lifted the spirits of these poor spammers.
That’s when I took another look at the envelope and saw it was addressed ‘to occupant’.
What were you doing occupying an envelope?