Kudos to Ayin for helping me out..Great help!
No lah, I'm not that stupid (I try to convince myself everyday without fail), I just wanted change. Change from a lot of things. I was hoping that this blog will get things rolling..
Anyhoo, why change?
Why the fuck not?
Theoretically..you can be one of three agents of change.. You can be...
...the one who initiates change
...the one who administers change
...the one who is forced to change regardless of his/her willingness
Let's look at this from a perspective that's larger than life: THE FACEBOOK TIMELINE FIASCO
...the one who initiates change...
OK.. Like it or not, Mark Zuckerberg has this one policy: Swallow all the shit I feed you! From the first time Facebook became popular till today, he has made changes that no one really knows why. Perhaps Napster asked him to do so, perhaps he wants to see the world end (for some people), or because he truly believes that the change will be good and help us communicate better with one another and hide dirty linen harder from one another.
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| Zuckerbeng, seen here with his wife, Chan who wasn't interesting enough to make it to the movie..perhaps they haven't met, give me a break..sheesh! |
The bottom-line is he initiated how Facebook looks!
...the one who administers change...
Here we have people who zealously and sometimes mindlessly carried out what's being asked of them. This has been looked as a noble and loyal gesture not only in the corporate world, but in the likes of the military and some even believe...in heaven. They say money, honour and a new set of feathers on their wings have driven them to do such things.
Well we will leave God and the army aside and look at YOU! Yes, you in the super-awesome-I-will-puke-rainbows-on-your-grandmother's-eyebrow-and-cure-her-from-cataract-like Facebook office!
See, these Facebook administrators have been doing the will of Zuckerberg.. first they send pop-ups and tutorials, then later they threaten us by giving a deadline, then they simply switch your profile to the Timeline and there goes your privacy settings. Now your boyfriend will for sure know you are fucking around..but all fixable within seconds.. Cheers for opposable thumbs and adaptability!
Whether they like the new Timeline or not they have to do it..therefore making them the administrators of change..
...the one who is forced to change regardless of his/her willingness...
My personal favourite, the end users..you, me, the people we love, along with millions of jerks!
You can say a lot about the way a person accepts change by the way they handled the Timeline issue..we have:
The Optimist:
Makes the best of things and does well with change
Will most likely look at the Timeline as another way to express creativity and him/herself
Still enforces custom privacy settings
Page will most likely look something like:
The Neutral:
Doesn't really care about the new changes
Changes profile picture
Updates status
Still enables privacy settings
Visit my FB page to see how a Neutralist's page looks like..mine is somewhat private..
The Negative Nancies/Nicks
Will bitch about the Timeline
Will tag you in a picture about liking/sharing so Zuckerberg will revert to the old profiles after 200,000,000,000 'likes'
Will reminisce about how awesome FB used to be
Will claim to have found a solution to the Timeline problem, which in reality is just some browser settings which is also kinda like having an unshaven crotch hiding a small penis and masturbating in front of a two-way mirror.. embarrassing on so many levels..
Oh you know those people..if you don't, it's most probably you then..
So well, just wanted to say either embrace it, initiate it or administer it..either way change is gonna happen!
Change is neither good nor bad..it simply is - Don Draper, Mad Men
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