{"id":1276,"date":"2004-08-09T17:07:21","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T17:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/08\/09\/abuse_of_the_term_personal.html"},"modified":"2004-08-09T17:07:21","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T17:07:21","slug":"abuse_of_the_term_personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/08\/09\/abuse_of_the_term_personal.html","title":{"rendered":"abuse of the term &#8220;personal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an invite to yet another social network service &#8211; Multiply.  The second paragraph is labeled &#8220;Personal message from {friend}&#8221; and it says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve decided to add my network over on Multiply since there&#8217;s a ton more I can do with it there. I&#8217;ve got my own personal web page where I can share my photos, journal, reviews, classifieds, etc. with you and all my other friends. I now go to Multiply regularly to check the message board and see the new stuff posted in my network. Accept my invitation and check it out for yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK.  I&#8217;m not an idiot.  There&#8217;s *NOTHING* personal about that message &#8211; it&#8217;s all marketing speak.  I&#8217;m just sooo thrilled to see the term &#8220;personal&#8221; get abused.  ::grumble::<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not even going to begin commenting on the import tools for Friendster and Orkut.  Aren&#8217;t we done with these replicas yet?  Anyhow, i refuse.  So don&#8217;t invite me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an invite to yet another social network service &#8211; Multiply. The second paragraph is labeled &#8220;Personal message from {friend}&#8221; and it says: I&#8217;ve decided to add my network over on Multiply since there&#8217;s a ton more I can do with it there. I&#8217;ve got my own personal web page where I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}