Wednesday, August 08, 2012

1799 'Cinco Johnson

Seems like not a day goes by you don't hear of another privacy invasion by the crumbling Facebook. Like even after you log off Facebook still monitors every website you visit for a while. The better to harvest data and place those ads that pop up with strangely relevant categories.
Those ads that various surveys have shown are more and more completely ignored. Like splotches on the wallpaper of our lives, eventually they just disappear from our perception.
So. If Facebook is harvesting, storing, and using all these private things in our lives in such a discourteous fashion, and violating the norms of decent society, shouldn't we really be calling them anti-social media.
Speaking of social media, apparently Chad Ochocinco is positioning himself to be an unencumbered free agent, even though he just signed with the Dolphins. And doesn't want to unnecessarily restrict himself from a new jersey number on a new team. He's legally changed his name back to Chad Johnson.
The regular media confirmed the seriousness of the change by reporting he not only legally changed his name it court, but also renamed his Twitter account.
Twitter...that is serious.
He says it's because his new wife has no interest in taking a numerical last name. I'm thinking Johnson is not much of an improvement, for obvious reasons. Like wherever they go people will say, "Here comes Johnson and Johnson."
Maybe the real J&J will seek their endorsement and offer big cash. When the new Johnson and Johnson have kids, there's shampoo, baby lotion...it's a slam dunk. Or is that a touchdown? Either way, Chad can cash in on his new old name more than ever.
Maybe now that he's back to Johnson he can start catching a break that way.
And maybe a few passes.
America, ya gotta love it.

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