Comments on: Basefook http://theadversary.yellowgrey.com/uncategorized/basefook Weblog of the [very-nearly-a] writer Rob Burton Wed, 26 May 2010 10:16:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Borobadur http://theadversary.yellowgrey.com/uncategorized/basefook/comment-page-1#comment-4 Borobadur Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:17:39 +0000 http://theadversary.yellowgrey.com/?p=25#comment-4 Nice blogpost. I couldn't agree more with you about most things you wrote. When we were in London and Dad was a more active member of the Socialist Workers Party we had our phone tapped so I have grown up with the idea that we are all monitored by the government. I have also always presumed that somewhere in Government is a fat file on my Dad and a slimmer one on myself as a 'fellow traveller' as they would no doubt call me. I've already signed the petition regarding Facebook as I see it as yet another drip in the leaking tap of the Government using supposed anti-terrorist laws to routinely monitor the population. I don't like Facebook in general but feel that if I want to keep up with what my friends and family are doing then I have to be on it. But I hardly ever post status updates or any of my info on it. I like having the choice over whether I maintain my privacy or not and I don't like the info you have to give it to be on it. Facebook wished me a happy birthday when I logged on this morning and I find that frankly unsettling. I'm not particularly in the mood to celebrate it this year, so how dare they presume that I would want to be wished a happy birthday by them and I find the anthropomorphising of machines weird. However ironically I have recently started twittering. I like that they don't ask any info about you to start and see it more like having a stream of consciousness outside my head which is interesting for myself to look at and is helping me work out some thoughts that I need to deal with. I don't see it as something necessarily there for the benefit of other people, but if they want to watch it I don't care. When it comes to Jade I wouldn't wish what happened to her on anyone but I feel that she was a dislikeable person in many respects and a damning inditement of our society and its many failures and fascinations. What really irked me about all this outpouring of supposed emotion was that if people were really that worked up about people suffering in this way why don't they get out into their local community and help someone who really needs it and doesn't have the ability to raise such sums of money, alibi in a way that I would guess she didn't find comfortable or respectful. There are loads of people going through this sort of similar experience all around us so if you really give a shit then go help them not do a Princess bloody Di over one person in the media. And bloody Brown commenting on it to look like he is caring is a joke, why not actually do something about caring for other people in that situation rather than scoring an easy soundbite. The only positive about it is the rise it has caused in young women having tests for cervical cancer. Nice blogpost. I couldn’t agree more with you about most things you wrote. When we were in London and Dad was a more active member of the Socialist Workers Party we had our phone tapped so I have grown up with the idea that we are all monitored by the government. I have also always presumed that somewhere in Government is a fat file on my Dad and a slimmer one on myself as a ‘fellow traveller’ as they would no doubt call me.

I’ve already signed the petition regarding Facebook as I see it as yet another drip in the leaking tap of the Government using supposed anti-terrorist laws to routinely monitor the population. I don’t like Facebook in general but feel that if I want to keep up with what my friends and family are doing then I have to be on it. But I hardly ever post status updates or any of my info on it. I like having the choice over whether I maintain my privacy or not and I don’t like the info you have to give it to be on it. Facebook wished me a happy birthday when I logged on this morning and I find that frankly unsettling. I’m not particularly in the mood to celebrate it this year, so how dare they presume that I would want to be wished a happy birthday by them and I find the anthropomorphising of machines weird.

However ironically I have recently started twittering. I like that they don’t ask any info about you to start and see it more like having a stream of consciousness outside my head which is interesting for myself to look at and is helping me work out some thoughts that I need to deal with. I don’t see it as something necessarily there for the benefit of other people, but if they want to watch it I don’t care.

When it comes to Jade I wouldn’t wish what happened to her on anyone but I feel that she was a dislikeable person in many respects and a damning inditement of our society and its many failures and fascinations. What really irked me about all this outpouring of supposed emotion was that if people were really that worked up about people suffering in this way why don’t they get out into their local community and help someone who really needs it and doesn’t have the ability to raise such sums of money, alibi in a way that I would guess she didn’t find comfortable or respectful. There are loads of people going through this sort of similar experience all around us so if you really give a shit then go help them not do a Princess bloody Di over one person in the media. And bloody Brown commenting on it to look like he is caring is a joke, why not actually do something about caring for other people in that situation rather than scoring an easy soundbite. The only positive about it is the rise it has caused in young women having tests for cervical cancer.

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