So I’ve been doing a lot of bashing lately.. I just really hate when big companies change tactics because of competition. In this post, we have Facebook in the spotlight (yet again). What a fucking surprise, right? You’re probably asking yourself, wtf did Facebook do to piss Nito off this time?! Well, Aside from being a bunch of money hungry corporate assholes who can’t seem to understand that competition is GOOD for business, they’ve just fucking ripped Twitter off.

Some of my readers might not be aware of this, but Facebook attempted to buy out Twitter, who just turned around and gave them the bird. Facebook obviously didn’t like the tweet that Twitter gave them, and so here we are – Facebook attempting to make their network more along the lines of Twitters (This makes me lol hardcore).

Anyways, Facebook is (or maybe already has? I deactivated my account after the last rant about them) adding a function that will now allow you to ‘follow’ a user, instead of adding them to your friends list. Sound familiar? It should, that’s the way Twitter creates its users friends lists. So, was this at all neccesary by the people over at Facebook? Fuck no. They have a fucking friends list already, wtf would the point be in allowing others to stalk you too?

This is how I see it… Facebook sets all profiles, images, videos, etc. to public by default now and now they’re allowing ANYONE to STALK you.. Are they looking to get into the shithole as hard as MySpace is now? Have you looked at the stat’s between MySpace and Facebook lately? MySpace dropped dramatically, not only that, but now they’re downsizing their employee base.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I got on to Facebook because MySpace turned into a shithole over run with bots and kids that annoyed the fuck out of me. Facebook offered top-notch privacy, not allowing ANYONE to see shit about you unless you added them,a nd even if you did, you could limit what some people saw. And now they open the network, and allow stalking. For the fucking fail!

I can see the freelance boards now – “Looking for Facebook bot!” – “REQ’s: Must be able to auto-set follow and store addresses. Must also auto-post comments and auto-request friends!”.. You know, I see their next step in this piece of shit plan of theirs… “Hey, we should so totally allow anyone to post comments on peoples pages!”..

Fuck you, Zuckerburg, you greedy fucking piece of shit. You should have taken Microsofts offer- You’d of fit right in with the rest of the succubus staff there. You sir, are the fucking fail.

-Nito

A couple of my friends asked me if there’s anything they can do to deal with all the bullshit soliciters they get via phone calls. As a matter of fact, there is, and it’s not even that hard to do. As long as you’re legitimatelly pissed over the call, or are good at acting, there’s a way to deal with them.

Now, I’m not sure about all the phone scams, but I know about the biggest one out right now. It has to do with an extended warranty expiring on your car. I got this a couple times, most of the time I was sleeping when my phone rang (I’m a night owl), so I wasn’t coherent when I picked it up. But then they decided to call me around 9pm one night, and boy did I have fun with them =D.

So what I did was just wait until the message got to the end, and it tell you that you can press 1 to speak with a live rep (Most of them will allow you to go to a live rep) and some guy comes on the phone. He says a few words, and I listen, making sure to read into his tone, accent and what-not. So now I know, the guy’s either black or a mutt (Yeah, yeah.. I’m not one for the whole politically correct crap), he has an attitude (He talks with that ‘slang’ in his words) and he’s tired (low cracky voice).

As soon as he stops talking I start going off – this is essential. If you call up, and you politely talk to them, they will continue to call you. Now from here, I obviously want to get transferred to someone in a higher position, so while going off I slip in the words your supervisor, and after about two minutes I’m now on the phone with someone who says they’re the supervisor. Now that I’m here, I go off again, and then… I drop the bomb that rattles all companies – The Better Business Bureu. I learned that trick while I was in the Army. If something’s legally fucked up, and they won’t fix it and you drop the words “Lawyer” and “Better Business Bureu”, they start to listen.

Again, I’m not sure how every phone scam works, but this is what works for me when I get them, and after I do what I wrote in here… I’m forever off their list.

Until next time…

-Nito

I ran across this post from one of my followers on Twitter about how Facebook is scamming advertisers out of thousands of dollars with fraudulent clicks.. Advertisers are reporting 10:1 ratios, which pretty much means, for every 10 clicks, 1 is legit or actually recorded outside of Facebook. What a fucking piece of shit company.

See, there’s some times you need to keep some of your shit to yourself. If Facebook hadn’t opened their network to so many fucking developers, but instead charged them propietary fees to post their app’s and shit they wouldn’t need to pull stupid ass stunts like this. But then again, we’re talking about yet another online media community, which means that they’re nothing more than some money hungry suit wearing corporate douches.

In my honest opinion, advertising on Facebook to begin with is a fail. Sure, maybe you get a few legit clicks, but that fucking site is riddled with thousands of bot’s, which means that most of the clicks you get won’t be worth shit anyways. The advertising worth on that site is less than the towel I use to blow my nose with.

So for all you little investors, put your cash into other sites. You wanna get some cheap ass advertising, that’s going to get you a nice amount of clicks? You can go to Today.com or look for personally owned blogs with a couple hundred posts and a decent amount of subscribers. Send the owner an email, and make an offer.. I’m sure it wouldn’t have to be too big, since they probably don’t make cash outside of Google’s AdSense or some other low level advertising.

That’s it for now..

-Nito

So, I’m not sure how many of my readers use or have used Jacob’s paste bin, but it was the best bin on the net. Due to douchebag skittles who seem to think botting is cool, the site’s down. A real drag, since I used the site a lot to post up random source and snippets for people to use daily. Another site downed due to retardation, so you guessed it, this is a rant post…

So I see a lot of nice useful sites being taken down due to abuse. It’s fucking stupid, and shouldn’t happen, period. Little fucking skittles who watched Hackers one too many times, thinking they’re fucking big shots with other peoples software, or opening command prompt and pinging the fuck out of some server. Real big, douchebags… 90% of them haven’t ever been outside of a Windows enviroment, and if they have, they’re using some pretty GUI based *nix.

You aren’t fucking “hackers”, I don’t give a fuck what anyone has to say. And if you want to defend the little bitches, go ahead – you’re as low as they are. This isn’t the fucking 80′s, tagging sites isn’t cool (not that it ever was, but some had it coming). But attacking sites that offer free services? Seriously? We take our own personal time to offer free services to you, and you just spit in our fucking faces?

How about growing a fucking pair. If you’re going to attack a site, atleast tag it so they can retaliate. You can’t do shit but spam comments and use some third party software to do the work for you? Bunch of nub ass bitches these days, lmao…

I’m done with this post. Jacob, I’m sorry you were forced to shut your service down due to ignorance.

-Nito

So, I ordered a Cricket Broadband modem from these guys about a month back. It gets here a about a week later, and I’m happy, because now I have a wireless modem to use when we get the stupid freak power outages around here. So I toss it into one of my USB drives to give it a go, install the software and connect.

Ok, so this is where this becomes a rant, and I go off on this company..

Well, the wireless modem itself is nice, I suppose. Black and green, and it’s got the neon blue bars to indicate wifi strength. So mine stays in the one bar (For the most part), which obviously means I have a shitty ass connection (Now remember, I live in the heart of the city – about a 10 minute walk from downtown). So I open FireFox to see how fast it work. Oh man.. I sat there for about 10 minutes waiting for Google to load. Now, if anyone reg’s Google, they’ll know that all it is is a blank white page with a couple of images and a text box, so wtf?! Yeah, so I disconnect and take it out.

A few days go by and the power goes out on our block again and I load it up on my laptop because I had work to do. Again, one to no bar. What a piece of shit… All in all I used the thing 3 times, racking up around 45MB of use (I wrote a little program to convert bytes into megabytes and so on, as the log only shows you in bytes, and who the fuck would want to convert that themselves?!).

Now, I hate their software with a passion. They activate the internet gateway option in your network panel (for those of you who have this, and may have been like how the fuck do I get back on the net I already have?!), which now restricts you from using any other connection method other than Cricket. Yeah, shitty software to go with their shitty service and shitty hardware – who’d of thunk it… So I unistall their software, and then have to go in and deactivate the internet gateway, reset the wireless connection I had prior to purchasing their piece of shit hardware.. It’s just a fucking hassle.

So, the month goes on, and now it’s today. I do my daily bank account check and find that $46 has been deducted to pay Cricket for a service I haven’t used. So, I call them. Now, I pressed 3 in the Cricket Broadband menu, signifying that I required help, but of course – an automated service asking me for the number I no longer have because I removed the shitty ass software from my pc. So after the third time of the service asking me for my number, you’d think MAYBE they’d send you to a help desk? WRONG! “Sorry, maybe you should try again later when you’re ready.” *click* You get disconnected. Oh grand, so now I’m not only pissed that I got charged for something I didn’t use, I got hungup on by a fucking robot…

So I call them back, and this time I press 2, signifying that I want to activate a new modem (of course their call service would be as shitty as the rest of it, right?) and I get a customer rep (about fucking time). So I give them my info and start asking them about a refund and cancellation. Blah blah blah. She says you get billed $1.36 per day no matter what, and that the deduction was a prepay? Where in the fine print was all this?! And when did I sign up for automatic payments? So now I’m going back to my pissed off German roots, and I start going off on her about the legalities of the ordering system and what-not. I continually ask to be refunded and cancelled, she continues to dodge it all. Finally I get pissed off and just start going off on her, and she says “I’m trying to keep this professional, but if you continue I’ll have to…” *click* I hang up on her ass. Yeah, because that’s what I want to fucking hear, right? Just give me the fucking refund and cancellation like I originally asked and there wouldn’t be a fucking problem. Honestly, how fucking hard is that to comprehend? I didn’t click the spanish button, right? We’re both speaking English? Refund and cancel, not hard to understand.

Bah, anyways.. I wouldn’t recommend this company to anyone I know. It’s complete bullshit from start to end. I think the only thing they have that actually works decent, is the payment process, although I don’t remember ever signing up for those automatic payments, nor was there any contract stating that I would be charged that fee per day. In fact, their main selling point is that there’s no contract, and you pay as you go. I actually plan on calling them back in a few minutes again, after I check my bank account just to make sure they’re refunding me. We’ll see how that one goes. =)

I called them back, but it seems my number got blacklisted (Can get customer rep on my girlfriends phone though), and goes straight to automated services no matter which selection I choose. So I google cricket communications and get another number to call, which I do. Guy tells me that Cricket doesn’t refund period, and in order to cancel your account, you just don’t pay? Yeah, because that’s not a credit conflict or anything…

So I end up calling my bank, having to cancel my current card so that I can’t be billed anymore (I don’t have access to the cricket account on the website unless I reinstall their software and get the phone number ***igned to me by connecting, which would then say I used the account in this billing month – nice right…). Anyways, I transfer to the payment dispute dept. of my bank, and we go through all the legalities of this and what-not. So I have to wait until the payment is completed to dispute it. Another three days at the most to file the claim, and hopefully I can get the money back.

This company’s a waste of money and time. How on earth can a multi-billion dollar corporation not do refunds? Maybe it’s due to the fact that they receive thousands of complaints a year about their services and the hardware that they supply.

Alright, so I play a lot of online games, and know a lot of people that play games. What I don’t get, is why people sit there every single fucking day, and continue to play a game, when all they do is complain about how much it sucks, or how much the community in it sucks. =/

I complained about a game I used to play, Rappelz. This is a free to play game, so it’s a given that the community’s going to be a bunch of kids or adults trying to compensate in-game for what they lack outside of it. Which is usually being bossed around, or being able to talk shit to people without the repercussion. Needless to say, I no longer play this game. I gave my account and all my in-game shit to friends.

But yeah, I really don’t get it. Can someones life be that fucked up, that even though they get treated like shit in a game and do nothing but complain about it every time you talk to them, still play it? Maybe it’s because they got used to being treated like shit in the real world, that they just take it for granted now? I guess I just find it extremely useless to complain about something and not do anything about it. =\

I guess the only thing I can say to these types of gamers, is that you need to either find a new game, or stop your god damned fucking complaining, because it’s extremely annoying, and no one gives a flying shit since you won’t take any action to stop it.

That’s it for now.

-Nito

Haven’t written in here in a little bit – There’s a prefectly logical explanation, lol… We closed off the Phux Arcade to the public, so that we can integrate a new design as well as adding new functions to the arcade. Probably going to take longer than I’d anticipated, which means that we’re most likely going to lose some recurring visitors. Oh well, I suppose =/ The true users will return, and hopefully bring some friends after they see the new additions.

Other than that, idk – Busyness. It’s been uber cold out (I live in Western/Upstate New York), so I refuse to go outside if I don’t have to. I’ve been cracking out on WoW (yeah, yeah – I’ve always been an MMO addict). As well as playing DarkThrone, which is a text based MMO I’ve been playing for a few years. Waiting for my new XBOX 360 to get here ._. The fucker gave me the video chip error not even a month after getting it, lol…

Nikki bought a Sega (She’s a Sonic fan =/), but can’t play it because the remote she bought doesn’t work with the TV we have, lol. So she can’t get channel 3 – Which kinda sucks for me, because my NES/SNES combo system should be here in a couple days, and I won’t be able to play that either. Guess we have to go get a universal, lol.

Guess that’s it for now. I have a long week of scripting this arcade and working out the bugs.

-Nito