{"id":9206,"date":"2011-09-21T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=9206"},"modified":"2011-09-22T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T21:30:09","slug":"facebook-scrolling-feed-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/09\/21\/facebook-scrolling-feed-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Facebook’s Dizzying Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much to my surprise, I’ve found myself defending Facebook lately. For instance, I think its new subscription feature is a great idea. But an even newer change is driving me nuts — the ever-scrolling News Feed on the upper right corner of the screen. The damn thing is making me so dizzy, I can’t even think straight.<\/p>\n

Limerick Ode To Facebook’s Dizzying Changes
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Dear Facebook, you’re making me dizzy
\nCuz your feed on the right is too busy.
\nI’ll say this politely:
\nYour scrolling’s unsightly.
\nI am now in an A.D.D. tizzy.<\/p>\n

(I’ve written two more limericks about Facebook’s annoying new Ticker here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Good news! I’ve found a solution to Facebook’s terrible News Ticker problem. You can read all about it here, including a celebratory limerick.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much to my surprise, I’ve found myself defending Facebook lately. For instance, I think its new subscription feature is a great idea. But an even newer change is driving me nuts — the ever-scrolling News Feed on the upper right corner of the screen. The damn thing is making me so dizzy, I can’t even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,757,42,22,1831,3],"tags":[388,389,533,1175,2492,2490,1179,4903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9206"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9267,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions\/9267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}