{"id":599,"date":"2013-03-13T18:48:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T23:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2013-03-13T18:48:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T23:48:46","slug":"i-blame-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/13\/i-blame-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"I blame facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/google_reader.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/google_reader-300x102.png\" alt=\"google_reader\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/google_reader-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/google_reader-500x171.png 500w, https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/google_reader.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So long, Google Reader, we&#8217;ve had a good run. Along with iGoogle, Google is systematically killing how I organize and consume information on the Internet. They claim they are culling the less popular products but make no mistake, this is a deliberate ploy to get more information about you (and hence more money). I don&#8217;t like Google+ and Facebook because they are very invasive, constantly trying to find out about my personal relationships. I have no interest in disclosing my personal information and activities offline to the rest of the world. And the rest of the world isn&#8217;t interested in what I do offline either except for, of course, advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, nothing in the world is free, eh? The price of getting information is selling information, in this case, about yourself; information that can be all too easily leaked via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2070749\/Facebook-security-glitch-reveals-Mark-Zuckerbergs-private-photos.html\">security holes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So long, Google Reader, we&#8217;ve had a good run. Along with iGoogle, Google is systematically killing how I organize and consume information on the Internet. They claim they are culling the less popular products but make no mistake, this is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/13\/i-blame-facebook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}