In the past I've found the best way to avoid sex at bedtime is to pick your least favorite late night news item (which in my case is often my partners favorite) & argue about it. Often reducing it to only one story is the hard part, however a couple of nights ago TV3 Nightline ran a story on facebook users...of which I am one, but for the record never have, or ever will, hold any illusions about the world's favorite social platform.
According to Nightline there are a large (& please be embarrassed if this pertains to you) number of facebooking faring folk who were unaware that applications like farmville = information theft. Theft I say...pfffft - how ridiculous! I mean, did you really think facebook was free & that as a facebook user you have no virtual footprint? Well, apparently the news is (or should I say was) that no information is anonymous even if otherwise stated. Sorry guys, there is a high chance that what you had for breakfast is not just between you & your 500 friends. Now give me a farmville chicken & in exchange for your humiliation I would like to inform you that nothing is safe. Facebook is selling your information to marketers & advertisers - because this is how facebook makes money, albiet lots & lots of money. The only part about this that scares me is apparently 1/2 of you didn't know that farmville is about more than swapping barnyard animals & getting down with the pixelated crops (gross!)... I think if you're silly enough to waste time on such things (bejewelled does not count, I repeat bejewelled does not count) then I guess you would be surprised to find out that while you're playing farmer Joe facebook is busy distributing your particulars.
And while we're on the subject of gumboots & swandris, since when did kiwis need a real-life farm simulation experience? Haha, real life - that's cute! Even urban city dwellers like myself only need to travel at most 40 minutes either way to find sheep, and what's more generally you don't even need to visit a farm.
For once my partner & I agreed, sometimes Nightline really does set the mood.
For once my partner & I agreed, sometimes Nightline really does set the mood.
