Why Facebook Keeps Changing.

So why DOES facebook keep changing?
To be honest, I'm not really certain of this answer.

Here is a list of my theories:
1. they're incredibly bored over there.
2. perhaps there was something wrong and we just didn't notice.
3. they're just trying to make it more user-friendly.
4. they think they're doing the world a great service.
5. Tom from myspace is behind all this and is sabotaging facebook so people will go to myspace again.

As you can clearly see, I have no real answer, but I have a strong feeling about number 5.

So my newsfeed is exploding (very much out of order I might add) with two different kinds of people. 80% of them are complaining about the new facebook and the other 20% are complaining about the people complaining about facebook and telling them to quit if they don't like it.
Wow, we're really effective.

Here's the thing though. Yeah, facebook is free, but I feel like I should be allowed to complain about it because if I go to the mall and get a free sample and it tastes like someone's dirty underwear baked in the sun for three months and then soaked in vinegar... I'm going to complain. Anyone in their right mind would complain. Unless you like that sort of thing.
OK, maybe you wouldn't complain to the sample man, but you would complain to whoever you were with about how nasty that was.
Right? Right.
So who cares if someone complains about facebook?

I complained too, here's why:
Before myspace or facebook and even before email was something everyone had, I moved all over the world all the time. I had no way of keeping in touch with anyone... so I didn't. Now, I have the ability to keep in touch with all my old friends, all my family, and all my new friends in one convenient location. I don't have to email all of them individually to find out what's new in their life. Cause who has time for that?
Exactly.
Facebook isn't something I'm in the position to just "quit" when I don't like something. I have to keep in touch with everyone somehow and facebook is the least time consuming, most convenient way to do that.

Social sites are the new keep-in-touch format. It's not going to "go away" and people aren't going to "quit." That's not possible.

On the other hand... facebook IS free, and we should all remember that and be grateful that they aren't charging us. (They make enough money anyways... why would they?)

What was my point here? I don't even remember.
Here, enjoy this hilarious GIF:

and thus began the slow migration back to myspace...

100 Followers Book Giveaway!

Here are some reasons that this book giveaway is not going to be conducted by me:

1. I'm super poor

2. I like my books and I want to keep them

3. I don't have 100 followers

Perhaps if I get 100 followers then I'll give a book away. 

But I have to reach 100 followers or no free books. 

Deal? 

ok.

So until that day comes, how about I just give you the link to a friend's blog? 

She's actually giving away free books. Because she's awesome, and I'm lame. 

Here's a link to her blog. You better hurry. You only have until October 4th. 

http://thewritingdancer.blogspot.com/2011/09/100-follower-giveaway.html

For Lack of a Better Title...

Well, hello there.

Long time no see. I know, I know. It's my fault.
I am shamed.

So what's new?
Er, well, a couple things.


ONE: I finally finished editing a draft.

This is big news because usually I write the draft, get bored with it, have 39482304832 other ideas for a new book anyways, and start on the next book draft and never get back to editing the others.
I've officially sent it off to my editor. You remember Friend, right? She's my editor. <- (not a real one. but actually she's just as smart as one.)

TWO: I finally got into Pottermore.

As you can obviously see, I was placed in Ravenclaw.
Which is not surprising really. I couldn't have been placed in any of the other houses.
I'm lazy = no Hufflepuff
I'm a big fat chicken = no Gryffindor
I'm not cunning = no Slytherin 

THREE: I am now the proud owner of seasons 1-5 of the original Saved by the Bell series.

Anyone who doesn't remember watching Saved by the Bell every Saturday morning was born in the wrong decade. Seriously.
Zack >>>>> Zac
I could never throw enough 'greater than' signs in there.

Speaking of the 90's, who remembers Bookits? That PizzaHut thing they did to make kids want to read?


FOUR: Found my bookit pin.

You'd read books and fill out some paper thing and take it to PizzaHut for a free Personal Pan Pizza. That was seriously the cherry on top of the ice cream cone of being a 90's kid. (a REAL 90's kid... not the ones born in 1999 that think they're 90's kids. No offense to you non-90's.)

I don't know why they ever stopped doing that.
Besides the fact that kids would lie about how many books they read and got a free pizza for it.
Way to provide incentive for a lying society, PizzaHut.

^ That's a joke, I love you, PizzaHut.

So anyways. While I have your attention, I'd just like to take this opportunity to point out that Principal Belding has a Kung-Fu certificate on his wall:


I feel like I've lost a majority of my readers with all this nostalgia so goodbye for now.
I'll find something constructive to blog about soon.