Annotated 29-5
Oh, man, remember Google Plus? Not sure if she’d have an Instagram if we did this today. Definitely no Snapchat or TikTok.
I really hate lorem ipsum like we used in panel 5. It’s like seeing a boom mic in the edge of the shot for me. But it’s the lesser of two evils here. Writing an article that’d be too small for you to read would frustrate you, me, and Phil to no good end.
Researching the deactivation pages and “you deactivated us” pages of Facebook and Twitter was pretty fun. I always feel like I’m one or two big frustrations away from giving up my own accounts, but I haven’t felt that final push yet.
Been Facebook free for years now, with only the occasional regret. I tried to delete my account, but it kept popping back to life, so I just ignore it completely.
Twitter has entered my life though, and except for hunting for cool art, it mostly stresses me out. It just feels so hard to actually have a dialogue, and very easy to say something short, snippy, and easily taken out of context.
Remember Google+? It’s hard to forget after the scarring event of them trying to fuse YouTube and G+ for a while. Holy Christ.
Sadly, yes.
I also remember Google Wave. Those were good times. Better times.
When it actually worked, at least.
The single most useful thing they made other than a search engine, and they brought about its death with all the dignity of a truck nut whose obsession with their pristine, kid-glove-tended pick up truck has just been gravely insulted with the words “I bet you don’t even use that for any real work”.
And that is why Google will never again receive my praise for anything else they do. Because they can’t comprehend the utility of anything that doesn’t make them money, and can’t contemplate being a magnanimous service to society even occasionally.
Sorry, small tangent. Gets my hackles up.