I’d like to find a service that allows me to keep in touch with my international friends. That service used to be faceboot. But now faceboot blocks me from doing what I want to do. I’d like to find an alternative.

Mind you, that won’t be so easy. I want to keep in touch with my international contacts. They want to keep in touch with me. We need to use the same contact mechanism. At the moment, that is faceboot. Once, it was cix. But if I drop faceboot, where do I go? My contacts are there. So until we all move away, and gravitate somewhere else, I stick to faceboot.

That’s why faceboot still has the chance to sort itself out. But I’m not optimistic. Why should faceboot pivot towards their users when all those other social sites failed to do so?

What I will do is open accounts on a good number of social sites, and see whether any of my contacts gravitate towards one of them. I suspect not. However, I’ll still do so on the grounds that if I’m wrong, it’ll be rather good.

UPDATE: since I posted this, faceboot’s most recent news feed has got a little better, and sometimes actually notices temporal order. It’s still not nearly good enough, but it’s better. Unfortunately, they’ve also introduced a feature that actually blocks me posting replies to news feed posts in firefox! I have no clue whether the latter is deliberate, or a bizarre consequence of my exact combination of plugins, although I suspect the former given firefox can sometimes block both hack malicious and head malicious adverts, given blocking the latter is very much against the immediate interest of a company that sells adverts.