I hate people complaining for the sake of it. You log in to your Facebook account just to feed your cows. Then you read an article on the web saying how bad Facebook is. And then you realise that all of it is true. Your very private pictures and, and, oh, yeah, your mood messages might be visible to everyone on this virtual planet.

May I ask you something? How many people have seen your childhood pictures? Yeah, the ones you are naked on? Not many. Why? Because they are not posted on your front door, that’s why. Pretty simple. Common sense, people would say. And it’s not like you haven’t thought about that. You like “Tokio Hotel”, but you don’t want other people to know you do? Just don’t then, they are disgusting anyway.

Now it’s advertising’s turn. People seem to be afraid of all those really well targeted ads. Companies know you like red socks and offer you some from the sidebar, be it Facebook’s or any other’s. Do you click on them? Do you even see them? I guess not. I hope not. Because, otherwise, you belong to this surprisingly big group of people who do click on random links. So long as this group of people is that big, companies will still use those boring methods of attracting attention and driving sales. And, hey, why do you add information about yourself anyway? Do you really need to have it there, under the “Info” tab? Nope.

What I am afraid of is the so-called “herd behaviour”.

Thing is, you always have a choice. However, if you want to live in a cave, don’t look for one on Facebook. As far as I know, caves are not available in FarmVille either. Yet.

If you are a good programmer, build a better Facebook. If you aren’t, you still have plenty of options. Sharing of pictures? Print and deliver them to the door of your friends. On foot. Just don’t be narrow, please.

No, seriously, if you can say something in two paragraphs, do you really need twenty pages? By using sophisticated words and phrases you don’t look sophisticated to me. It sounds more like gibberish. In high school my sentences were 150 words long. Each. And they were in German, not in my mother tongue. Do you really think that this is what makes you better at what you do? Get yourself together, dude.

Applying for a job through an ugly looking “we-will-filter-you” page, hidden under a long and even uglier domain name is even more boring. Drop-down menus, click here, click there. Just great, makes you feel somewhat desperate, knowing that hundreds of others will do the same. What’s more, most of them will press the very same keyboard buttons in the very same sequence and will choose the same options.

What if I want to do something more than that? You don’t want me to?

The thing is that salesmen in Bulgaria pretend to know everything. You may end up confused because their advices sometimes are worth nothing but forgetting about the product. If I hadn’t been convinced that I want that thing in my pocket, I could have left the store empty-handed. In fact, I did.

Who is winning? Nobody. Then I went back to all these product reviews on the web. I found several articles listing pros and cons. I watched a couple of videos on Youtube as well. Tomorrow I will go and get it, this time without asking for any help. However, not everyone is going to spend a couple of hours looking for such an easy answer to the question “to buy or not to buy”. I doubt even I would if I weren’t somewhat geeky.

Today one of them shared a link to this article: AP, News Corp bosses say pay up. For what, for indexing your content?!

Hey, guys, do you really wanna deny what’s already happening? Internet is about information and information should be free. It will be. If you fail to adapt, you’ll just fail. Power isn’t always on your side.