Iāll be interested to read the judgement, should it get to that point: Facebook is being sued over allegedly inflating its audience numbers, and COO Sheryl Sandberg and financial officer David Wehner are also named.
The plaintiff alleges that Facebook has known this for years. The suit dates from 2018 but there are new filings from the lawsuit.
Iāve blogged on related topics for the majority of the previous decade, and in 2014 I said that Facebook had a bot āepidemicā.
Finally another publication has caught on this, namely the Financial Times. The FT notes something that I did on this blog in 2017: āIn some cases, the number cited for potential audience size in certain US states and demographics was actually larger than the population size as recorded in census figures, it claimed.ā Its own 2019 investigation found discrepancies in the Facebook Adsā Manager tool.
The complaint also says that Facebook had not removed fake and duplicate accounts. Lately Iāve found some obvious fake accounts, and reported them, only for Facebook to tell me that thereās nothing wrong with them. On Instagram, I have hundreds, possibly thousands, of accounts that I reported but remain current. Based on my user experience, the plaintiff is absolutely correct.
Facebook only solves problems it puts its mind to, and all seem to be bolstering its bottom line. This is something it could have solved, and since itās plagued the site for the good part of a decade, and it continues to, then you have to conclude that thereās no desire to. And of course there isnāt: the more fakes there are, the more page owners have to pay to reach real people.
Over a decade ago, I know that it cost a small business a decent chunk of money to get an independent audit (from memory, we were looking at around NZ$6,000). Facebook doesnāt have this excuse, and that tells me it doesn’t want you to know how its ads actually perform.
As I said many times: if a regular person like me can find a maximum of 277 fakes or bots in a single night, then how many are there? Iām surprised that not more of the mainstream media are talking about this, given that in 2018 Facebook posted an income of US$22,100 million on US$55,800 million of revenue, 98Ā·5 per cent of which came from advertising. Is this one of the biggest cons out there? Hereās hoping the lawsuit will reveal something. Few seem to care about Facebookās lies and erosion of their privacy, but maybe they might start caring when they realize they’ve been fleeced.
I did say Iād blog when Autocade hit 4,100 models, which it did yesterday. Proof that the hundredth milestones arenāt planned: the model was the Changan Zhixiang (é·å®åæēæ or éæå®åæēæ, depending on which script system you prefer) of 2008, a.k.a. Changan Z-Shine. A less than stellar car with a disappointingly assembled interior, but it did have one thing many period mainland Chinese cars lacked: a self-developed engine.
It shows the nationās quick progress. The Zhixiang was Changanās (back then, weād have written Changāan) first effort in the C-segment, after making microvans, then A-, then B-segment cars, with quick progress between each. The Changan Eado, the companyās current C-segment sedan, might still be rather derivative, but the pace of improvement is still impressive.
After 1949 through to the late 1970s, Chinese cars in the PRC were few in number, with mass production not really considered. The first post-revolution cars had panels that were hand-beaten to the right shape in labour-intensive methods. Some of those cars borrowed heavily from western ones. Then came licensed manufacture (Jeep Cherokee, Peugeot 504, the Daihatsu Charade at Tianjin) as well as clones (CitroĆ«n Visa, SEAT Ibiza). By the 1990s some of these licensed vehicles had been adapted and facelifted locally. The PRC started the new century with a mixture of all of the above, but by the dawn of the 2010s, most Chinese press frowned upon clones and praised originality, and the next decade was spent measuring how quickly the local manufacturers were closing the gap with foreign cars. Itās even regarded that some models have surpassed the foreign competition and joint-venture partnersā offerings now. Style-wise, the Landwind Rongyao succeeds the companyās (and Ford affiliateās) Range Rover Evoque clone, the X7, with a body designed by GFG Style (thatās Giorgetto and Fabrizio Giugiaro, the first production car credited to the father-and-son teamās new firm) and chassis tuned at MIRA. The Roewe RX5 Max is, in terms of quality, technology, and even dynamics, more than a match for the Honda CR-Vāa sign of things to come, once we get past viral outbreaks. Styling-wise, it lacks the flair of the Rongyao, but everything else measures up.
But the Zhixiang was over a decade before these. Changan did the right thing by having an original, contemporary body, and it was shedding Chinese manufacturersā reliance on Mitsubishiās and othersā engines. To think that was merely 12 years ago, the same year Autocade started.
A few days ago, Facebook became disconnected with my IFTTT applet, which takes the Tweets made on the Lucire account (which themselves are fed through another service) and reposts them to Lucireās Facebook page, so that none of us have to visit either.
IFTTT is good enough to send an email to tell you things are broken, but all their ‘Fix it’ links that you get taken to do not remedy the problem. You’ll just get IFTTT’s ‘There was an error during check process.’
After an hour, which actually necessitated my visiting that horrid Facebook site to see if there was anything there (there isn’t), I found the solution. This is from my reply on Reddit to someone asking something similar, when they got stuck (it seems with both Twitter and Facebook). Italics added other than the one in the last sentence.
This should show what you need to link, in my case, FacebookāI clicked on that, it took me to a verification page on Facebook, I allowed it. Twitter will be the same, and I think youāll have to select Twitter as well.
Then head to https://ifttt.com/my_services
Select My Services
Choose Facebook pages
Go to Settings
Select Edit your account info
For Twitter, I imagine you would have to go to the My Services page again and choose the Twitter account you want to connect, and tinker with the settings.
Then if you head back to your list of applets, run the check again, and it should work.
I’ll leave this here for anyone else who might come across this problem. It may well be me, since this is the third time I’ve had to do it in the last few months, once because I tried to delete my Facebook account and this was holding me back.
Itās true. I spent time on business development, answering emails, doing tech stuff on our sites, and generally kept on top of things. I often wonder if I would have become an active Facebooker or Tweeter had they been invented and come into my orbit in, say, 2002. We all may have been too busy with our own ventures. The fact they surfaced (for me) in 2007, and became part of my routine the following year as the economy slowed canāt be a coincidence. Instagram, in 2012, also falls into this period. I convinced myself that these social media would provide some advantage, or bring opportunities that otherwise couldnāt be readily located elsewhere, but that wasnāt the case. Like Linkedin, Iām not sure if any of these websites have brought work opportunities that resulted in an invoice.
Once you fall out of the habit, then the device itself isnāt that useful, either, for someone who never really embraced the cellphone as a primary means of communicationāI maintained a landline all these years. I never even had a regular cellphone number till 2006: I got people to call my colleagues who did carry them (I was paying for the damned things, after all). Iām not sure I want to be contactable in my waking hours that readily. Iāll take work calls in my office, thank you, and personal calls elsewhere; and if Iām out, then Iām driving or meeting with someone, and neither is a good time to be interrupted. The landline has this amazing feature called an answerphone, and it records and plays back messages when I’m good and ready to hear them. Since Dad passed, thereās one fewer need to be contactable day and night, and realistically I only see it as something that other members of my family and close friends should reach me on now. The number has never appeared on a single business card of mine, for good reason. As we head into the 2020s Iām hoping each of us decides where lines should be drawn. I think mineās right here: no more cellphones for work; at best, they’re a last resort. I need to organize my schedule better and cellphones just donāt help, apps even less so. It comes back to this crazy belief of mine that technology is here to serve us, not the other way round. By all means, if your cellphone serves you, then use itāI can think of countless professions where it is a must. But for the rest of us, it’s a relief not to be burdened with it.
I see Billie Eilish is singing the next James Bond title song, and it sounds pretty good.
The last one, āWritingās on the Wallā, wasnāt one of my favourites and while I didnāt mind Sam Smithās composition, I felt a female voice might have suited it better. On a Bond music forum on Facebook (when I was still using it), I voiced disappointment, only to get comments in the thread essentially saying, āEveryone who dislikes this song is a homophobe.ā
Up until that point I had no clue about Smithās sexualityādidnāt care then, donāt care now. I didnāt think much of this until tonight, when it dawned on me that when I say Iām not a fan of Brexit, on busier social media threads Iāll get, āStop calling British people racists.ā
In neither case was homophobia or racism even hinted but it puzzles me that people can somehow go into Mystic Meg clairvoyant mode and see things that arenāt thereāand get it completely wrong. And that has to be one of the things wrong with social media these days: people far too much in their own heads to even see what is right in front of them, letting their imaginations run riot. Could they be projecting? In any case, a discussion, or even an argument, is pointless if parties are unwilling to stick to the facts in front of them, preferring to go into snowflake mode and fling out accusations. It does them little credit.
And folks wonder why so many of us have social media fatigue and would be quite content if certain sites vanished overnight.
My early 2000s Microsoft Intellimouse 1Ā·1 is still the perfect shape for me. After getting the second-hand one into service last year, I thought that I needed a spare. Iāve several other mice, including no-brand ones, that are a decent size, but I got used to having the forward and back buttons on either side.
Microsoft makes a Classic Intellimouse these days, but itās based on a later design, and it appears the side buttons are on the left only, which seems to be the convention in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Itās also had some reviews criticizing the quality, so I knew I couldnāt go with the latest.
I headed back to Recycling for Charity, where I sourced this Intellimouse, but judging by the stock, Iām not alone in my preference. All that were left were smaller mice, making me wish that I bought multiple Intellimouses a few years ago and stocked up. This surely is a massive hint to mainstream mouse makers on a latent, forgotten market.
After sampling some during spare time at Noƫl Leeming in Porirua, which did fit my hand, I opted to look online. The Noƫl Leeming ones were mostly Logitech, and my experience is that their mice last about two years. I wanted quality.
After much searching, one mouse that matches the dimensions of the Intellimouse (125 mm Ć 65 mm Ć 40 mm) with one millimetre out on the height is the Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) Strix Evolve, and our old friends at Just Laptops in Albany had them on special at under NZ$70 plus freight. Thatās a lot more than the NZ$3 I paid for the used Intellimouse and the NZ$25 I paid for the Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000 in 2015, but with Asus claiming that the switches were good for 50 million clicksāprobably 10 times more than regular miceāI decided that three times the price for ten times the longevity (at least in one respect) was acceptable. And it had two switches on each side, which I could program.
It arrived a (working) day later. A lot of the gaming features are lost on me: the option to have lighting effects, choosing your own colour or having it cycle, for instance. I donāt necessarily need DPI switching. Itās simply vital that I have something my right hand is comfortable with.
The mouse comes with a second set of covers, so you can raise it slightly to suit your hand. I tried all permutations: left high, right low, vice versa, both low, both high, before deciding on having both sides in the raised position. The rubber side panels help with grip, and they aid comfort.
The first negative is that the forward end isnāt as wide as I was used to. The Microsoft mice are a reasonable width all the way down, and the Evolve is slightly narrower. That means my ring finger touches the mouse pad more on the side, as it did with an earlier Lenovo (plenty of those at Recycling for Charity, incidentally). I thought I wouldnāt be able to get used to it, as I didnāt with the Lenovo, and it does continue to be a slight problem. In other words, I havenāt quite got the perfect mouse and itās a lesson about buying online when your requirements are this strict (though again I wouldnāt have considered this a major problem if manufacturers werenāt skimping on materials and giving people repetitive strain injuries).
Asus hasnāt deceived about the measurements: it is 125 mm wide at its greatest width, just as Microsoft has it on theirs.
I may put up with letting my ring finger drop and go along the mouse pad for the time being just for comfortās sake and see if Iām OK with washing the pad more regularly. Or adjust my hand positioning slightly. But I know I cannot use the modern mice.
One Tweeter noted that maybe the mouse manufacturers are finally appealing to women, and I had to agree it was nice for us men to experience just once what itās like for them in a usually male-designed tech world.
The other features are excellent: the ability to program the switches, which I did very early; and I can turn the lighting off as I see no point to it if my hand is on the mouse obscuring most of it. Then again, Iām not a gamer.
The mouse wheel and switches are far more solid than anything Iāve encountered, making the 50 million-click claim believable. I do occasionally hit the right button inadvertently, probably out of unfamiliarity, and I must hit the DPI switch from time to time, again accidentally.
Nevertheless, Iām going to keep my eye out for second-hand Intellimouses. Mine has become the back-up again, and really I didnāt think I was asking for much. Microsoft had a perfect design for which the tooling must be long amortized, so it makes you wonder why they donāt just trot it out again and make a bundle more off us.
I had to put in a good word for Dell’s P2418D monitor (earlier post here) after the multiple negative reviews left by one person.
If I had to write something negative, it would be about their website blocking me from submitting my positive review by claiming I was using an ad blocker. I wasn’t. But I do have ‘Do not track’ turned on and I wonder if that is doing it.
Eventually I got the review through on my eighth attempt by using a vulnerable browser: one with no privacy plug-ins, allowing all cookies, with all the default tracking that Big Tech likes.
After reading another reviewerās multiple entries, I had a few doubts about this monitor, but Iām glad I bit the bullet anyway. I bought mine in 2020, so they may have ironed out the bugs.
First up, the QHD resolution is a great thing to have. Windows 10 automatically scaled everything 125 per cent for me, and the programs that were a bit fuzzy were easily sortedāyou just go into the properties and make sure that they use their own magnification and not the OSās. Iām actually more productive as a result of being able to see the finer detail. I work in publishing and itās great to be able read the smaller copy on a spread. Before I would have to zoom in and out to do a lot of my work.
I donāt really need 27 inches as I donāt want to move my neck to see the different corners of the screen: 24 is plenty for me. I actually have a feeling 27 inches would decrease my productivity, but thatās just my personal preference.
Iāve noticed no backlight bleed, the edge is fine for me and the desktop appears normally. As to the prompts that appear when the monitor goes into sleep mode (one source of complaint for one reviewer)āfor me it doesnāt sleep for ages (it must be my settings) and when it does, Iām usually out of the room. In three weeks Iāve seen those prompts once.
I had a problem with the driverāWindowsā security settings prevented me from opening the executableābut I was able to open it using an elevated command prompt. The controls you need for resolution, brightness, contrast, etc. are in there, too, if you donāt wish to fiddle with the buttons on the front of the unit itself.
All the cables are included (USB 3 downstream, Displayport, power), and itās been great having USB ports on my monitor. Itās allowed me to tidy up the external HDs a lot (I run three). Going from DVI-D to Displayport has been useful, tooāI know I shouldnāt notice 1 ms improvement in speed but I really sense that I do!
The blue-light-blocking comfort mode means I donāt get sore eyes if I work late, another bonus.
Iām glad someone makes QHD at this sizeāin fact, I know Dell does 4K at this size, too. But QHD is fine for meāof the programs not using Windowsā scaling, I donāt want the menus to get too small! A great investment to my everyday computing.
Hope that redresses the balance a bit more for Dell. I get that the other person is annoyed, but stick it all in one review, please!
Iāve had a go at software makers before over giving us solutions that are second-best, because second-best has become the convention. While I can think of an explanation for that, viz. Microsoft packaged Windows computers in the 1990s with Word and Outlook Express, itās harder to explain why peripherals havenāt been human-centred.
I thought about this with my monitor. Itās “only” 24 inches, despite being QHD. But it works for me, as 27 or more would see me move my neck to view the corners. I was always happy with the 24-inch Imac: I had no desire for it to be larger. If I had 27 inches I might need to sit further back, cancelling out the upsizing. Despite saying this, I can see in some situations where people would be quite happy with 27 (and even larger ones for coders), but it begs the question of why there arenāt more 24-inch QHD monitors on the market. My friend Chelfyn Baxter believes it is the optimum size for productivity (granted, he told me this over five years ago, though I still see little to fault him). Are our suppliers driving us to larger sizes, just as car importers are driving us to automatics here? (The latter is not backed up by any research on preferences, to my knowledge.)
The same thing applies to keyboards. To me, the optimum width of a keyboard is around 40 cm. Any wider, youāre reaching for your mouse and causing repetitive strain injuries. Iāve stuck to my 40 cm rule for a long time and havenāt had the sort of pain I had in the late 1990s and early 2000s when I had a standard-width keyboard. The mouse is roughly where I expect it to be, and I wouldnāt object if it were closer still. Again, it begs the question of why 40 cm isnāt a standard if it saves us from pain.
Then thereās the mouseāI now use a Microsoft Intellimouse 1.1 from the early 2000s after my 2005-made, 2015-new one gave up. I know thereās a lot of comedy around the US president having small hands, but weāre no longer in the sort of society whose products change to appease a leader. But regular mice are awfully small, a trend that seemed to have begun in the 2010s. I canāt hold them and maybe I have large hands, but I canāt be alone. In so many places I visit, I see some very uncomfortable hands try to grip a small mouse. I learned that was a bad thing in the days of the round 1999 Apple USB mouse (it wasnāt the Imouse), which created a trade in adapters that snapped on around it.
Fortunately, mice manufacturers do offer larger sizes, recognizing that not all of us accept a childās size as the standard. Here I can understand why mice have downsized: the manufacturers attempting to save a few bob and forcing more of us into it. However, there must be a decent part of the population who think, āIāll be uncomfortable with that. I wonāt buy it,ā and let the market move accordingly.
I wonder how much more comfortable and productive a chunk of the population would be by following a few basic rules: have a monitorāwhatever size suits youāwhere you limit strain on your neck; have a keyboard around 40 cm wide or less; and have a mouse which your hand can rest on (and keyboard wrist rests and mouse wrist rests to suit to make you comfortable). But I know most of us will just go, āThe default is good enough,ā and unnecessarily suffer.
Speaking of practical, I hope Mudita gets its designs on the market sooner rather than later. Who needs pizzazz when we all value simplicity? Technology serving humanity: what a novel idea! Here’s how we can help.
The Dell P2418D: just like the one I’m looking at as I type, but there are way more wires coming out of the thing in real life
Other than at the beginning of my personal computing experience (the early 1980s, and thatās not counting video game consoles), Iāve tended to have a screen thatās better than average. When 640 Ć 360 was the norm, I had 1,024 Ć 768. My first modern laptop in 2001 (a Dell Inspiron) had 1,600 pixels across, even back then. It was only in recent years that I thought my LG 23-inch LCD, which did full HD, was good enough, and I didnāt bother going to the extremes of 4K. However, with Lucire and the night-time hours I often work, and because of a scratch to the LG that a friend accidentally made when we moved, I thought it was time for an upgrade.
Blue light is a problem, and I needed something that would be easier on the eyes. At the same time, an upgrade on res would be nice.
But there was one catch: I wasnāt prepared to go to 27 inches. I didnāt see the point. I can only focus on so much at any given time, and I didnāt want a monitor so large that Iād have to move my neck heaps to see every corner. On our work Imacs I was pretty happy to work at 24 inches, so I decided Iād do the same for Windows, going up a single inch from where I was. IPS would be fine. I didnāt need a curved screen because my livelihood is in flat media. Finally, I don’t need multiple screens as I don’t need to keep an eye on, say, emails coming in on one screen, or do coding where I need one screen for the code and the other for the preview.
Oddly, there arenāt many monitor manufacturers doing QHD at 24 inches. There was a very narrow range I could choose from in New Zealand, with neither BenQ nor Viewsonic doing that size and resolution here. Asus has a beautifully designed unit but I was put off by the backlight bleed stories of four years ago that were put down to poor quality control, and it seemed to be a case of hit and miss; while Dellās P2418D seemed just right, its negative reviews on Amazon and the Dell website largely penned by one person writing multiple entries. I placed the order late one night, and Ascent dispatched it the following day. If not for the courier missing me by an hour, Iād be writing this review a day earlier.
I realize weāre only hours in to my ownership so there are no strange pixels or noticeable backlight bleed, and assembly and installation were a breeze, other than Windows 10 blocking the installation of one driver (necessitating the use of an elevated command prompt to open the driver executable).
With my new PC that was made roughly this time last year, I had a Radeon RX580 video card with two Displayport ports, so it was an easy farewell to DVI-D. The new cables came with the monitor. A lot of you will already be used to monitors acting as USB hubs with a downstream cable plugged in, though that is new to me. It does mean, finally, I have a more comfortable location for one of my external HDs, and I may yet relocate the cable to a third external round the back of my PC.
Windows 10 automatically sized everything to 125 per cent magnification, with a few programs needing that to be overridden (right-click on the program icon, then head into āCompatibilityā, then āChange high DPI settingsā).
Dellās Display Manager lets you in to brightness, contrast and other settings without fiddling with the hardware buttons, which is very handy. I did have to dial down the brightness and contrast considerably: Iām currently at 45 and 64 per cent respectively.
And I know itās just me and not the devices but everything feels faster. Surely I can’t be noticing the 1 ms difference between Displayport and DVI-D?
I can foresee this being far more productive than my old set-up, and Ascentās price made it particularly tempting. I can already see more of the in- and outbox detail in Eudora. Plantin looks great here in WordPerfect (which I often prep my long-form writing in), and if type looks good, Iām more inclined to keep working with it. (It never looked quite right at a lower res, though it renders beautifully on my laptop.)
I feel a little more ālate 2010sā than I did before, with the monitor now up to the tech of the desktop PC. Sure, itās not as razor-sharp as an Imac with a Retina 4K display, but I was happy enough in work situations with the QHD of a 15-inch Macbook Pro, and having that slightly larger feels right. Besides, a 4K monitor at this sizeāand Dell makes oneāwas outside what I had budgeted, and Iām not sure if I want to run some of my programsāthe ones that donāt use Windowsā magnificationāon a 4K screen. Some of their menus would become particularly tiny, and that wonāt be great for productivity.
Maybe when 4K becomes the norm Iāll reconsider, as the programs will have advanced by then, though at this rate Iāll still be using Eudora 7.1, as I do today.
Itās pretty hard to deactivate oneās Facebook. When I ceased posting in 2017 and reduced my activity to client stuff and group management, I made sure that I had no more Facebook sign-ons left. But it turns out that Lucireās Twitter-to-Facebook page script relies on my account.
I did look today and got caught up in a thread which reminded me why I donāt tend to look at the feed. Usual behaviour: person offended by a friendās post. Spewed out opinions disguised as fact. Got called out. Couldnāt back them up. Then began obfuscating and attacking the messenger.
It would be funny if it werenāt so obvious these daysāand that this person thinks they are intelligent. Social media have allowed those under the average IQ to believe they are the superior beings in the human race, because they have an audience and enough dopamine hits from likes to back up that feeling.
To heck with facts. We also find the same folks despise expertise, and truth is the obvious casualty.
I still remember last year one gentleman having a go at me for a Tweet that joked about MSG in āwhite people foodā (a term, I should note, that whites use), then proceeded to tell me all the incidents of racism perpetrated by my race that he had witnessedāall without recognizing that what he was doing was putting forth a āmaster raceā argument on how his race was better and more tolerant. A racist who slams others over race. It stuck in my mind as a brilliant exemplar of ignorance and pigheadedness. Iād link it but heās deleted itāI hadnāt expected the cowardiceābut it was a great example of how the original message became the pretext to attack someone rather than engage. (Incidentally, thereās plenty of MSG in occidental foodājust look out for those 600 numbers, and fast food joints are particularly nasty.)
I know thereāll always be more sheeple than independent thinkers. I know thereāll always be more whoāll swallow BS than analyse something for themselves. But itās still disappointing to see it writ so large in this social-media-democratized world of ours.
Of course everyone should have a voice, a freedom to say their piece.
But in a bigger forum it would also be useful for all of us to have some sense of self-control and admit it when we donāt have evidence or weāre not experts in the area. I donāt think thatās likely unless schools are training kids some netiquette, what an actual debate looks like, and how social media ādebatesā are not debates.
Iād never go on a forum to debate my GP over medicine. And if I did, Iād qualify my statements with āAs a layman, I would have thought ā¦ā and allow myself to be corrected by people who know more than me in their specialist area.
In the 1980s, the Scots comedian Robbie Coltrane said the difference between a Briton and an American was that the Brit might recognize their limitations and say, āI didnāt go to a very good school,ā whereas the American would say, āIf he comes over here, Iāll shoot him.ā But in 2020 I doubt such a distinction exists, certainly not online. A Briton is as likely as an American, or a New Zealander for that matter, to be anti-expert and truth- and fact-resistant.
I donāt know where that puts society. When I talked about leaving Twitter, one very active and knowledgeable friend in the South Island said he would stay because he ādidnāt want to let the bastards win,ā or a sentiment to that effect. Sometimes I feel retreat leaves some of us in a gated community while the Morlocks go wild in Big Tech forums. And there would be absolutely no point to such an arrangement, because we enrich each other in society through contact, not isolation.
So how do you educate others who are so resistant to education, so unwilling to enter into a debate without character assassinations? Is this why the social media sites love us so much, because some of us think that the only way to get through with facts is to shout?
A religious person might advance the idea of living life better and to lead by example. Donāt preach it, show it. That doesnāt mean isolation, but it does mean demonstrating that not being an arsehole is enriching. Sounds good to me, except, with some so self-obsessed with ignorance, will they even recognize that thatās whatās happening? When this person on Facebook was called out today, I don’t think she realized it. Itās easier in the real world, and not so much in the virtual one where people are so caught up in their own head.
PS.: Let my friend and colleague Peter Fraterdeus have the last word here:
It turns out that Facebook etc are the perfect Petrie dish for extracting Dunning-Kreuger syndrome.
