Today I went to Walmart and well I hate Walmart, I’m not sure if I have really ever said that on here but just so you know I hate Walmart. Its not even the whole chine's thing or that they pay there employs shit its because there are so many people there and most of them I wish just wouldn’t open there mouth. But these people are the common windows users witch scare me.

I was checking out and the lady doing it was older but had no clue what she was talking about she was talking to the older lady in front of me about the computer she got recently and went on to say how she got vista and how she doesn't know it but she said she had XP before that and now she has to learn ware things are allover again and she wished that there was classis to learn vista but she only find place for windows 2005(and what the hell is that the only thing I could think of is windows server most likely).

So I under stand she was old computers are a whole new world for her but i really think that computers Windows or Mac are not that hard to get use to. But normal people go into this with the whole thought of ooo computers scary and so they make it allot harder than they should be.They wont try things cause they think they are going to brake it but I really find that not true. I was like that for awhile I will admit when I got my first PC when I was in 3rd grade but then I learned to back up and what the restore disks did and I was never afraid to do anything. Now I still don’t touch anything in the BIO settings but I think that is a give in unless you know what you are doing.

Also these people don’t know how to secure them selves online either and in that case they are a danger to them selves and others. These people don’t update there computer and think as long as I got Nortan anti virus I'm safe and nothing can hurt my computer. That right there is scary to me too and the anti viruses companies don’t really correct that either. Then when you tell them the truth they say “Well why do I need a anti virus then if it doesn't help me” and you have to try to tell them is more a safety net.

Its a mess out there and I really wish there were more people like well Leo Laporte cause I think he dose do a good job of explaining to the normal user these things. A lot better than I can I try as I might but there just so much I can do because of the generation gap its easier for him because well he is older and can relate to them than a 18 year old could to a 50 year old. When I try to explain something to my friends who are around my age I can relate things to them and they can under stand what I 'am talking about.  Maybe there will be one day where people understand computers a little bit more then they do now but until then I still have to run to my grandparents just so I can restart there computer and say and its fixed lol.

-Mike

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The other day I was talking about the new privacy changes facebook made and today they have changed them back. I love this quote from them.

“Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.”

I think they did the right thing here to go back to the old one. The newer one just gave them too much power over our stuff. Witch is OUR STUFF. Though it makes you think… what are they cooking up at facebook that would make them want control over that and dose this mean they my try to do something like this again. Hopefully they will not I do like facebook a lot more than I ever liked myspace.

-Mike

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I think at this point we know about the  change in facebook privacy policy. I we can all agree that its just wrong but incase you have no idea what im talking about, Facebook changed there privacy policy to basically say that any info that you put on your facebook page or any content you put on your facebook page is there's and they can do what ever they want with it. You can read more at mashable.

What I think we are going to see is facebook selling are info to ad agencies and company's so they can make ads that they can make ads that appeal to us. Witch will probably not work. But they could do other things with this too if you want to that into it. They can sell pics that we put on our pages to ad company's so when it shows one of thoughs meet hot girls in your area, it could come up with a pic of a a girl on your friends list (or guy).

I know it is a quick way to make money Facebook but really you don’t own us and you maybe able to use our stuff even if we leave facebook but if we do leave we will find some place elts that will not take our info and the ad company's will no longer want you. So what im really saying is don’t mess with your users.

-Mike

*update: In the time I wrote this facebooks mark Zuckerberg has responded to the conserns of this chang witch you can read as well on mashable.

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For the longest time I loved myspace and I would move to Facebook. For the lonest time I thought what seperated myspace users from facebook users was myspace was for middle to lower class people wile facebook was all upper class. Well I finnaly see what really seporats myspace users from facebook users. Facebook users just had enof of the slow wait times to get to other peoples pages and had enof of peoplee being dumb and haveing these like never ending pages with huge pichers that take up the hole screen and pages that will never render right.

 

Wile Myspace users well they will never learn they dont under stand and they will keep doing it till myspace gose out of business. Witch is sad myspace is a good social network they just have so many dumb ass that don’t know how to make a web site cause thats what the custumizeable options are for there is to make your myspace more for a web site.

 

Facebook can be custemized its just limited as to what they will let you do. Some might think that is a bad thing but it works no matter what facebook page you go to it works. I mean they let you have applections and they were the first to do so. Yes most of the appes there now are kind of well bad but there is so much protenchal to make good appes and I think it might be a plat from that deveplopers will look at as we try to do more and more in the cloud.

 

Though at this point im toren only because I have friends that have facebook pages and ones that I can only talk to on myspace if I could I would only have my facebook page. I can see a day when good apps come out for facebook or myspace but one of them has to go frist. Though there are new social networks that come out everyday so for all I know theyy could be better than myspace and facebook combind.

 

-Mike

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