FUD of the Day

I follow a bunch of people on twitter and sometimes I wonder why. I won't say who posted this (since most people I know wouldn't be the least bit interested) but this was a retweet posted today:

RT @identityg: They change the rules all the time. Here's the latest on recent Facebook security updates! http://ow.ly/99ZFf #IDTheft

I don't follow identityg.

When I see something like this the first thing that pops into my head is... Well Damn!!! Facebook has changed its privacy policy or settings AGAIN. So what do I have to look for now??? What do I have to change?

And of course I go to check the link. Which turns out to be...

A story about how the Koobface gang and their servers were finally shut down. Oh yeah... and a warning that there is another trojan out there to take its place.

Really? That's what you've got? And you post a tweet saying "They change the rules all the time." What am I missing? What rules changed? Where in the linked story do they tell me that facebook changed something so users have to check their accounts and fix them again?

Oh the story doesn't say that? Well then your tweet is FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) to get people to read your article. Good going!

The people who tweet this crap and those who retweet it should be smacked - or unfollowed which is what I did (unfollowed not smacked much as I would love to find the person and do that - ha). That worked out well for them didn't it.

While the story itself is not a bad story - the hype to go read it is severely misleading. The bottom line... facebook has not changed anything and this presents nothing new when it comes to keeping your account secure. It's merely a news story about the shutdown of a gang - newsworthy yes, causing changes to your facebook account? Not at all.

So now that I have unfollowed the culprit in spreading the annoyance I shall return to my regular Sunday afternoon browsing.

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Not So Super Anymore

I just finished watching my last Super Bowl (maybe even football game).  This has been coming on for a while, but tonight I decided I've had enough.

We watched most of the game with the sound muted because the "National Call" is simply dreadful.  They vacillate between one team and the other being "the best ever".  They fawn over players to the point where you want to tell them to get a room from crap's sake. There's so much inane blather I want to throw things at the television.  It's too much. 

If one was at a bar where other things were going on it might be tolerable.  But sitting at home with only the game on, it's too dreadful for words.

Sadly the radio call here is even worse.  I have no idea where they got those two guys, but wow, bad doesn't even begin to describe it.

Of course then we have the game itself.  It's so full of show off showboaters I cringe after nearly every play.  So, a guy who makes a bazillion bucks tackles someone on the other team and he dances or does a little praying thing or points at the crowd, or flexes his biceps or whatever... Dude why are you showing off for doing your friggin' job???  It gets worse every year.  Pretty soon we'll have entire teams out there doing some sort of salsa dance after every play.  Just because the play is over and aren't they great...

Seriously?

What happened to the football games I used to watch with my dad all those years ago?  The guys went out and did their job.  If they won the game they celebrated.  Otherwise they played the game.  They didn't suck oxygen on the sidelines, they didn't dance in the end zone, and they didn't need a lawyer on the field to figure out which hits were okay and which were bad or did they really catch the ball or not.  

Oh and let's not forget about the play reviews... why do we bother with refs on the field?  Just have cameras do all the work.  Now that the guys in stripes know every play will be reviewed they don't even watch well enough to make good calls - the on field mistakes happen more and more often.  Of course it might help if the NFL would decide they want to be a professional sport and actually hire their refs full time... you know like other sports do. 

I'll stick with hockey.  It's way more fun to watch, the players are tough as nails and the local call is always good (no matter which team it is).  Of course now that hockey is getting more attention with HD TV it may go the way of football and baseball and become completely unwatchable.  I hope not, but I won't be surprised. 

I guess then I'll have to see if I can find some Rugby to watch.  Sheesh.

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