Thursday, February 11, 2010

In Which Mockery Is (I Hope) Gently Rebuked

A fragile grasp on how things really work
Online or off is much the common thing.
This doesn't mean one is a fool or jerk.
If just a little knowledge seems to bring
Desired results, why plumb into it more?
We all have areas where this is how
We function. Take the Facebook fluff: before
Today most of us knew not that, e'en now
So many others still use search engines
To find a login screen, and so did fall
Into a trap that no one set. Gremlins
Did not hijack them. Do not mock their call
For help; Each cry is from one who might know
Much that you don't, if you'd but ask them so.

5 comments:

  1. when halfway down the article i read
    "dear visitors from google...", thought "how daft
    can people be?", then saw the comment thread,
    i must admit, i laughed and laughed and laughed

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  2. the new facebook is to harrrrrrrd! i need the old one back... let ME IN!

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  3. Come to think of it, it does look like most of the people on that thread were actually looking for Flakebook...

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  4. Google is a very successful troll

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  5. A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;
    Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
    There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
    And drinking largely sobers us again.
         —Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"

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