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.

[tango.livejournal.com]

I've done well with AirTrain, what about them bothered you?

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Re 'stalk this person' I can just as well go to someone's page and read there. I guess the difference is that you'll get it in Notifications, but there doesn't seem to be any further difference.

I've got a few friends who seem to do nothing other than play games, with once in a blue moon an actual update. And if I go to their page I'll have huge amounts of gamestuff to scroll through before I get to anything of substance. If "subscribe" lets me choose which types of posts I get notified about I'd be all over it.

[tam_nonlinear]

At this point I'm more than a bit adverse to Facebook, so something that encourages people to migrate from there to LJ does not make LJ more appealing to me. Thanks for the DW invite code.