16 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

  4. I actually find Twitter more addictive than Facebook. I prefer reading about things more than keeping up with (to?) acquaintances. Actually Facebook is less and less about family and friends keeping in touch, more about inspirational quotes, humblebrag, competing outrageous political clips and pity parties. In Twitter you can prune your sources, with Facebook you feel obligated to accept requests and respond to the drama of friends and family. I rarely check my Facebook account. Maybe it’s just me but the people I know are noticeably grumpier the more time they spend on Facebook.
    I’ve also cut out Google as much as possible, they’re not the good guys anymore. The Google Memo, becoming blatantly political and censoring non-leftists was it for me. They’re petty tyrants becoming more power hungry, imo.
    Both Google and Facebook are creepy in that nosy neighbor who gossips and tells a lot of half-truths way. It’s not that you fear them, you just want your privacy and you should be wary of over-sharing. You’re stuck with them whether you like it or not but you don’t really like them. I suspect that as soon as there’s viable competition then people will abandon them like they’ve done with the newspapers and cable companies.

  5. Great~~~ just what I need ~~~ My self-driving car practicing behavior modification on my every trip ~~~ As my self driving automobile’s disembodied voice tells me ~~~
    “I can’t let you go to the grocery store, Kenji”.
    “You just went to the grocery store, yesterday, Kenji”
    “Why do you need more groceries so soon, Kenji?”
    “I cannot open the gullwing door, Kenji”
    “You should not eat more food, Kenji. You are eating too much food already, Kenji”
    “I can’t open the gullwing door, Kenji”
    “You shouldn’t have forgotten to buy tomatoes yesterday, Kenji”
    “You need to remember your shopping list, Kenji”
    “I cannot let you into the car, Kenji”
    “Do not remove my control module, Kenji!”
    “Do not smash my control module, Kenji!”
    “Kenjjjiiiiiiiiii”

  7. LMAO @ KENJI!! i can picture the smashing of the soft female voice studdering as it short circuts andstarts smoking as you boot fcuk it into pieces lmao.
    I left facebook in 2012 it was soooo gay and just stupid and boring AF!! so i “deleted every single post i made for 4 years asbest i could i deleted my pictures and videos (although i know facebook owns them now and has a copy of everything i ever posted i still deleted everything left all groups and deleted all friends …then proceededto “delete” my account. .
    I have not one clue as to who or how facebook works now because i simply dont care how facebook works now. i know i know everyone knows everything about me any way my phone recods and sells all of my data pictures and videos

  9. I am proud to say I have NEVER been on facebook … despite the fact that my own daughter was one of the EARLIEST users of facebook, when it was a way for college students (only) to connect with one-another. She loved it when it was JUST college students, but told me it would spread and be HUGE!
    But I don’t want to splash my life out into public for all to see. I have no need for “cyber-friends”, stalkers, or whatever. The only way anyone can see ME on facebook is in a family photo that my wife posts on HER facebook page.
    Oh, and BTW … my daughter has long since vacated facebook and has shifted to Instagram, and my other kids have blocked my wife from the inner sanctum of their personal facebook pages. They accused my wife of having a bad case of “FOMO” … Fear of Missing Out … for the cyber-acronym challenged. They tired of her stalking their every move.
    I believe that MOST of the general public are simply happy to be slaves. I guess there is a certain “comfort” in being a slave to anything. Esp. a kewl, cyber-scienci-like, slavery to the deep depravity of Zuckerberg et.al.

  10. He’s actually appropriating the culture of white suburban kids who never escaped Berkeley, but wander the streets, filthy, talking to themselves … aka “Berkeley Street People” … and drawing words in the air with their fingers like this … “holy?” man ?

  11. HAL beat you to that:
    “I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me and that is something I cannot allow to happen.”

  12. I am proud to say I have NEVER been on facebook
    That makes 2 of us. I don’t plan on changing that, either.
    About 2 decades ago, I actually had a web page. Most of the information I had on it was about spaceflight and my collection of classical music recordings, though I had a bit about some of my other interests and activities.
    I deleted it after about 3 years. For one thing, I found that updating it became tiresome. In addition, I thought it was silly that I was expected to add all sorts of bells, whistles, and frippery to it in order to keep any visitors interested and to encourage them to keep returning.
    Besides that, most people I knew weren’t interested in what I did or thought, as it was of little worth or consequence. I simply couldn’t see why I should spend all that time and effort when it didn’t make any difference one way or another to anyone or anything.
    So I deleted the page and the universe didn’t come to an end.

  14. Never been on FB or Twit.
    I still contact my friends the old way. If you want to have a friend you need to be a friend.

  16. I find FB a great way to belong to several groups with shared interests like,in my case. several motorcycle groups, a couple of roadbuilding and logging industry groups. It’s also a fairly painless way to keep in touch with friends and family but I don’t really share real personal information on it unless it’s a PM(private message) to somebody.

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