I seem to have made some people upset by a comment thread I started on Friendfeed yesterday. My stance was as follows:

The reason being that Friendfeed has become very forum-like with people forming relationships, writing how Friendfeed changed their life, how they just had triplets, etc. etc.… all stuff an a**h*le like me doesn’t care about.

Other “thoughts” were about the super-spammy #spymaster tag…

Apparently this spymaster is the new hot techcrunch-worthy thing on the internet…

…and about the problem of avoiding spoilers about movies when the inter-continental release-date are so drastically different:

I hate, hate, hate it when people spoil movies or books or anything really.

What all of these problems have in common that the web is a fairly unfiltered mess of vocal thoughts, opinions, and of course spam. With user-generated content far surpassing regulated media (you know, the kind where you need a degree and sources to write an article…), it’s nearly impossible not to come across something annoying.

What I’d like:
Simply: an extension for Firefox (I guess…) that prevents you from seeing things that you put on a block-list. It has to be a little intelligent. For instance, if before seeing the Star Trek movie, I’d like to not read about it, it should be able to identify whole paragraphs or blog posts that deal with this topic.

More simply, banning any tweet that mentions the #spymaster tag or otherwise, etc. etc. And more complex, the ability to ban content about babies and all things that evil people like me don’t want polluting their rss-feeds.

Too much to ask? I don’t know. Too rude to ask? Probably… Logical? Definitely.

Vincent

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OK, see you later suckers! I just got this mail (bold parts added by myself) and I’m outta here!

ATTENTION: WINNER

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for a cash prize of €850,000.000.00

(Eight Hundred & Fifty Thousand

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( Email-

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Contact our claim department with the

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Name: Mr. Van Der Wal (AD)

Claims-Office/Email:

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Tell: +31-68-144-8820

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BATCH NO: NL/9922/0855

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Also you are advice to

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claim process

Sincerely Yours,

Email:Cheers,

Mrs.Samantha De Witt

THE

PROMOTION COORDINATOR

They didn’t mention my name, nor did I ever play the lottery, but I feel so honoured for having been selected. It also wasn’t recognised as spam, so it must be real!!!

Booking my world-trip now…

Vincent

P.S. If you want to win the lottery too, here is the IP which this mail originated from 87.210.73.31 and the mail-adress: lupimarsicani@virgilio.it.

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