faceboo

So I had been off facebook for a while for the sole reason that one day I signed on and everything had changed making me feel as though I had had some kind of stroke that left me discombobulated and confused in what should have been familiar surroundings.

It's no coincidence that the analogy makes me out to be old because that's how I felt when dragging my mouse around the screen to find [hidden] link options. What's wrong with trying to do things by reading? Is that so passé? Isn't it a social commentary when people no longer have to use reading skills to navigate? Yes I know clicking on your profile picture which will then give you the option to change it is intuitive and "easy" but scanning the screen looking for the words "Change profile" requires at most a 3rd grade reading level.

But alas using all the adaptability I could muster I did what I had to do and quickly logged out vowing never to return again leaving those more apt [read younger] at flourishing in this strange new world. I would stick with my all familiar email thank you very much [although I should note that gmail has since also incorporated this finding hidden options by hovering your mouse business].

But then I realized that some people actually only communicate nowadays via facebook. So I was sucked back in.

Resigned to the fact that I could not avoid facebook in the modern world I decided to try to understand how to use it.

Major fail. I tried to categorize my "friends" to limit access to "friends" who's name or face I didn't recognize. Seemed that facebook gave me the option of "Acquaintance" or "Close Friend". What about people in between I thought to myself? Unfortunately I didn't take the time to really consider this since I had 200+ people to go through and categorize.

Maybe there was an option to do mass categorization? Hoovering my mouse around the screen revealed no such option. I only got about 20 people in. Tired I went to bed.

I woke up the next day to find a dozen or so emails informing me that my "Close friends" either posted a link, changed their status, or liked something. I quickly went back to facebook to try and put everything back to the way it was.

Except, I couldn't put people back to just "Friends". I googled "how to change close friend back to friend on facebook" and got no results. Hovering my mouse all over my "manage your friends" page also had no result.

So apparently the only way someone can remain just a "Friend" is if you never ever ever touch this option, which is what I recommend.

My only option left was to make everyone an Acquaintance so if these people are somehow seeing a different profile of me in facebook I am very sorry.

I would "dislike" what facebook has done but, as it seems, there is only the option to "like".

I'll keep hovering my mouse though, just to be sure.

Cendrillon

So a friend of mine had an extra ticket to the ballet performance of Cendrillon
at the Opera National de Paris so I decided to tag along. Not that I know anything about ballet.

But honestly you don't have to. The dancers were memorizing especially the lead female dancer Marie-Agnès Gillot. She was amazing in the way she moved. I mean really breathtaking.





And Rudolf Nureyev who did the the adaptation, choreography and stage direction has an amazing history. Here he is dancing with Ms. Piggy.

His humor and grace show in this adaptation of Cendrillon. Bravo.