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Did you hire a bunch of shitties for this horrible design concept? Why did you invest time and resources into this? Why are you trying to fix something that isn’t broken?

There was only one flaw with Facebook and that was the introduction of applications. While at least that concept had promise and had actual useful functions, it was a destroyer of bandwidth. Between rotting zombies, fucking vampires, and pointless additional walls, you just couldn’t escape it. And then on top of all the random ass images from those shitty apps, someone went and made an application to display random ass images without a purpose. Yeah, even I have the bumper sticker application. Everyone does and that’s why it takes full minutes to view someones page sometimes. Whatever, it’s been implemented and I understand that. Great. Whatever. Let’s use it.

But then you pull this horrible three-column design out of no where. I undestand you needed to get applications off of the front page of people’s profiles. I’m completely for that, but why did you have to completely remove any originality Facebook had in doing so? I liked the old layout. I’m pretty sure most people liked the old layout.

So here’s a better option. Let’s go back to the old page but rip out the ability to put apps on your front page. Instead, we basically do what you had started doing with extended profiles, but make it mandatory. Put a giant ass button at the top that would load a second page dedicated to an user’s application. If someone wanted to view them, they then could. That’s basically what you’ve done here. . . You didn’t need to include the new eye-raping design feature.

I didn’t need that. If I wanted it, someone could have written an application. . .

I don’t believe, by any stretch of the imagination, that this is an issue with the majority of residents in small towns. I don’t even think it’s an issue with the majority the people in mine - but a conversation with a high school upperclassmen last night was pretty disheartening and really showed me how racism and ignorance are still prominent.

Yesterday I was at a friend’s bonfire and after hearing the word “nigger” thrown around several times and hearing my friends talk about the Nazi mini-flags they had bought at a gunshow, I wasn’t really phased-I knew the people engaged in the conversation and I didn’t really think they meant half of the stuff they were talking about, regardless of the fact that it did bother me. I have black family and close family-friends.

Then the conversation came about how some Aryan supremacy organization had written a statement indicating they would assassinate Obama should he win the Presidency. I mentioned that I had full intentions of voting for Obama and asked how they felt about that.
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… in the butt.

Excuse me, but I feel the need to add some comic relief here. Normally I’m not a huge fan of embarassing/abusing the hell out of family members via videos on youtube. HOWEVER - if it makes this dumbass wake up and realize there are predators out there, then I’m all for it. IN THE BUTT!!! (Please note you can’t see the embedded video if you’re viewing this from a facebook feed, so I may just look like a creep saying in the butt. In the butt! IN THE BUTT!!! To resolve this issue, head on over to www.postblink.com. In the butt.)

Alright - now we’ve got some content flowing and, as I’d hoped, some new guests to the site other than our three new authors.

There are some things that are still in progress - the similar posts links under each article will need time before they become more accurate. Right now, some of the religious posts are linking to music posts which are linking to gaming posts, and I haven’t yet authored any posts about the new Halo game with the hymnal soundtrack so that’s just ludicrous.

Also need to continue working on both the sidebar and nav - I owe my friends over a The Adventures of Brad and Jordan some linkage.

The general feel and design of the site has been (and is still) going through several changes lately - one of which was to support the introduction of new contributors on Postblink. Now I can officially say that my friends Craig and Hayley will be posting articles.

The entire purpose of bringing them on board was to get some new and more diverse opinions on music, movies, politics, and life in general on the site. That also means that articles on Postblink won’t neccesarily be the shared views of all the writers beind the scenes. You may agree, disagree, and even get angry at the new content to come - deal with it.

That’s the point afterall, isn’t it?

We’re still considering adding more authors here, so if you’re interested you can still contact me at staff@lucasj.net or any other form of contact you have for me.