Althouse: What a life I live, brimming with memories!

December 28, 2017

What a life I live, brimming with memories!

15 comments:

mockturtle said...: I'm so glad I never got involved with FB.; 12/28/17, 8:59 AM
Ann Althouse said...: If you maintain a sense of privacy on Facebook, the features designed to warm the hearts of effusive users make you look shockingly pathetic.; 12/28/17, 9:01 AM
tcrosse said...: Has Zuckerberg bought Hallmark now ?; 12/28/17, 9:23 AM
Birches said...: Hahaha. I showed this post to my spouse because he also hates the memory feature. He says you can turn it off.; 12/28/17, 9:28 AM
Fernandinande said...: Dingoes ate my pumpkin.; 12/28/17, 9:41 AM
Sydney said...: If you maintain a sense of privacy on Facebook, the features designed to warm the hearts of effusive users make you look shockingly pathetic.

Exactly. My memories on Facebook are a lot like yours. I seem kind of pathetic if viewed only through a Facebook lens.; 12/28/17, 9:46 AM
Curious George said...: Funny!; 12/28/17, 10:14 AM
RigelDog said...: Burst out laughing, this is great--- They like you, they really do!; 12/28/17, 11:14 AM
Kathryn51 said...: Birches said: He says you can turn it off.

That's good to know - FB only pings me about once a week with a suggested "memory" post.

But that doesn't stop the daily "memory" posts from some of my FB friends - usually 20-30 of the damn things every day.; 12/28/17, 12:02 PM
William said...: You have to look twice. I thought it was a fresh, hot turd on a cold, frosty morning.......,There should be a waste disposal system for memories. Most of them are useless, and the most vivid ones are generally toxic. I'm bloated with useless and sad memories.; 12/28/17, 12:25 PM
Birches said...: But that doesn't stop the daily "memory" posts from some of my FB friends - usually 20-30 of the damn things every day.

The fb feed is the worst. I stopped using fb conventionally almost a year ago, but decided to scroll through Christmas Eve and Christmas Day because I figured so many people would be posting Christmas pics and I wanted to see them. It was nice to see so much I'd missed (some friends pregnant again, somebody's dad died, etc), but it also reminded me why I don't do it regularly.; 12/28/17, 1:32 PM
Leslie Graves said...: I am extremely glad to discover I can turn that FB feature off. If FB had a decent algorithm, it would know better than to yield unto me the memories that it yields unto me.; 12/28/17, 2:01 PM
RMc said...: Nothing says, "Winter's early this year!" like a frozen pumpkin.; 12/28/17, 4:41 PM
jaed said...: Facebook posted one of those "One Year Ago!" memories on a friend's feed.

It was the first anniversary of her husband's death. They posted a repeat of the death announcement to her.; 12/28/17, 8:30 PM
glam1931 said...: I find the memory feature handy, and check it every day. While the featured post may be nothing, I always click "see more memories" and take a tour of where I was one, two or more years ago. I am reminded of which of my plants flowered at the same time as this year (or didn't), how my pets looked (or if they have since died), what the weather was like, and generally what I was up to at this time of year. Like flipping through an old diary except with pictures, it can be quite entertaining. And hey, it's free.; 12/29/17, 10:19 AM