caraig | Friendittorito. Tangy nacho flavor.

So... yeah. Saw snippitts about this, and did some reading.

My interpretation of it: Some people got uptight about 'internet drama' happening. Okay, we've all seen it: the things that make no sense being blown totally out of proportion. I'm comfortable in saying that I haven't seen it with folks on my friends list, but we've all been exposed to examples of posts that make one scratch their head and wonder what the author is getting uptight about.

Okay, so people who saw the stereotypical LJ run of 'internet drama' did what most people with a vindictive streak and little compassion for anyone around them would do: instead of ignoring the 'drama,' they mocked it.

Apparently, that wasn't enough, since they got banned from LJ and the people they mocked proceeded to make posts private anyway. They came up with a tool, Frienditto, where you can now log in to their site, give it your LJ name, password, and the URL of a post -- public or private -- and said post will be made publicly available on an RSS stream from the Frienditto site.

Hmm.

For some reason, this puts me in mind of a poem that Cliff Nerfherder utters in Diary of a Crazed Mimbanite:

Who is more foolish, more bullishly dim?
The fool or the fool who follows foolishly him
Who is leading the fools on a mission precarious
To the Death Star cell block; it won't be hilarious.
To get fired on and shot at, dodge blasts, beam, and bolts
And they won't even duck, so foolish these dolts!
So the following fool is an uncommon twit
He's following someone he knows is a nit
And should ne'er be followed (or so it would seem)
Lest they be hollowed by a laser gun beam!

Heh... I'm more foolish than either fool.

So basically, these people chose, instead of ignoring what they saw as foolishness, to mock it instead, then go ahead and commit a couple different types of privacy violations to expand upon the concept? You see this sort of thing with Portal of Evil, too, in their 'never-ending crusade' against furries. "They must be exposed!" they say. "They must be brought into the harsh light of reality and woken up with mocking laughter directed at them!" Nevermind that that's a bullshyte answer. I mean, come on. They're not in it to educate or 'wake up' other people, they're in it only for the joy and happiness that can only come from pointing and laughing at someone else from a reasonably secure position.

Geez. Get a grip. It's sort of like six of one, half dozen of the other. In the process of mocking others, you are undertaking the very behavior you're so ardently mocking. Way to go, Rocket Scientist. You're a real evolution of the Human psyche.

Gods, some days I despair of civilization. Might be easier if someone just hit the Cosmic Reset Button.

Maybe my patience for assholes has been winding down of late. I'm certainly on a shorter fuse. And I'm uncomfortably reminded of the fact that I NEED to NOT go all Quick-Draw McGraw verbally when I get this way. And I'm a lot quicker to curse than I used to be. So maybe I'm writing in anger and in a very real way this will come back and bite me in the butt; I tend to be torquing off my karma lately. And maybe I'm the one who needs to get a grip. Either way, the Frienditto issue is now officially closed for me. Wont use it, won't deal with folks who do, won't otherwise care about it, and won't even bother to pity the people who made it. They can go be hollowed by a laser gun beam for all I care.

Bellus. Er, I mean, Pax.