facejournal and sleep

[jazzfish]

cleolinda explains just what the heck is going on with LJ and Facebook and Twitter: basically, LJ's owners figure the number of people coming onboard LJ through Facebook and Twitter will outweigh the number of people fleeing to other sites such as Dreamwidth. And the fleeing users were the ones who were disabling all the useful (for advertising) privacy-invasive features anyway, so they won't be much missed.

(There's also a side trip through the creepiness of Facebook's new "Stalk this person" feature. Which just ick no. I anticipate that by this time next year I'll have done what I can to purge my Facebook account as well.)

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Still tired. Still writing up Key West (it was awesome). Likely to go home and faceplant for eight hours and wake up around two in the morning. Sleeping on planes works better when you can lean back in your seat, and when the guy next to you doesn't insist on trying to ram his elbow into your ribs, and when the flight doesn't arrive 45 minutes early thus shorting you out of three-quarters of an hour of uneasy but still much missed sleep. Bleh.

(Lessons learned: first, stay the hell away from Airtran. Second, with transit costs BWI may not actually be all that much cheaper than National. Third, do not rely on transit to get home from BWI.)

Comments

[rbandrews]

In reverse order: I've had two good experiences and one very bad one with Airtran. I think the secret is to get first class seats. You board first and get free liquor, which makes the interminable wait on the runway less irritating. Also the seats lean back, and if you get there early you're very likely to get row 1 (so plenty of leg room).

I saw an article once (and here it is, thanks Google) about a guy who made a Facebook targeted ad to send a message to his wife. He was able to target an ad to exactly one person using Facebook's advertiser controls. It was rather creepy.

[jazzfish]

I just got stuck at the very back of the plane. At least I wasn't in a middle seat at the back of the plane. And you may be right about first class being better, but I'm not willing to pay that much money for six hours of slightly less discomfort. (At least I don't think I am; I've never checked to see what the price difference actually is.)

ick ick ick Facebook ick ick. Estimated time to account purge dropping.

[rbandrews]

Airtran charges $25 to upgrade to first class for one leg, and you can pay it at check in (in fact, I think you can only do it there). It's totally worth $50 to me to not be stuck in the back of a plane for six hours. : )

And yeah, I deleted my Facebook account (which was unsurprisingly hard to do; you have to put in a request and then log in for two weeks, which means not touching anything that will automatically log you in) when they made the profiles public by default. I think that they do not fully understand why their business became popular. Facebook was the social network you wouldn't get fired over. Now stuff like this is possible, and creepy.