{"id":263,"date":"2009-11-02T20:41:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/02\/dear-social-networks\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T03:41:02","slug":"dear-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/02\/dear-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear social networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Facebook,<\/p>\n<p>You know all those people with whom I have mutual friends? The ones you like to suggest I befriend? Did you ever wonder if there might be a reason why I am not friends with those people?<\/p>\n<p>Please stop telling me who you think I should be friends with, or suggesting that my friends need more friends. <\/p>\n<p>Also, please stop telling me who to poke. That sort of thing is best left to those of us with a speck of human judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>\nNon-Poker <\/p>\n<p>Dear OKCupid,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for telling me, on my receipt of a message from a new sender, that you think we both like &#8220;Vegetarian&#8221;, &#8220;Ender&#8217;s Game&#8221; and &#8220;Hiking.&#8221; Because there&#8217;s no possible way I could figure that out for myself.<\/p>\n<p>Also, &#8220;you both like Vegetarian&#8221; is not grammatical.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>\nAdjectives are not Nouns<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone else annoyed by the way social networks seem to be positioning themselves as knowing far more than their users do about who their users want to interact with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Facebook, You know all those people with whom I have mutual friends? The ones you like to suggest I befriend? Did you ever wonder if there might be a reason why I am not friends with those people? Please stop telling me who you think I should be friends with, or suggesting that my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,19,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}