I live in Belgium. Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French and German. About 60% of the population speaks Dutch, about 40% speaks French and 75-thousand-some speak German. I speak Dutch, like the majority.
For some odd reason though, any website or application that automatically chooses a language decides that French is most suitable. Most of the time, it's advertisements. In that case, I can't be bothered that much. However, myspace insists that I speak French and refuses to display other languages until I log in. Realplayer installed itself in French, without even bothering to ask me what language I want it to be installed in.
Software developers and website managers; STOP IT! If you insist on forcing a language on me, please check what part of Belgium I'm from. My provider is from the Dutch part too, so it should be rather obvious. Even better: ASK WHAT LANGUAGE I WANT IT TO BE.
Seriously...
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Deactivation
Earlier today, I deactivated my facebook profile.
Although I never 'liked' facebook, I must admit I've been spending way too much time on it. Staying away from it proved to be much harder than one would expect, so hard in fact, that even blocking the website in my browser failed to stop me.
But I've deactivated my account now and realised that, for now, I have no reason to re-activate it.
I do not regret participating in facebook. The idea behind is is genious. However, there's one crucial thing that makes or breaks that idea; friends, or rather lack of them. If there's no one you'd like to know things about and no one wants to know anything about you, then what's the point? That's the situation I found myself in.
So, I deactivated my account and told no one about it so far. Why not? Very simple. In the previous paragraph, you'll have read that I felt like nobody was interested in me, the same way as I wasn't interested in anything others posted. So no, I left without telling anyone. If someone, anyone, tries to visit my profile, they'll know I deactivated the account. So they might ask me trough other media why I did so. When they do, I know that they at least found it was worth visiting my profile. I want to see how long it takes before anyone notices.
I'm impatient to see who will be first.
Although I never 'liked' facebook, I must admit I've been spending way too much time on it. Staying away from it proved to be much harder than one would expect, so hard in fact, that even blocking the website in my browser failed to stop me.
But I've deactivated my account now and realised that, for now, I have no reason to re-activate it.
I do not regret participating in facebook. The idea behind is is genious. However, there's one crucial thing that makes or breaks that idea; friends, or rather lack of them. If there's no one you'd like to know things about and no one wants to know anything about you, then what's the point? That's the situation I found myself in.
So, I deactivated my account and told no one about it so far. Why not? Very simple. In the previous paragraph, you'll have read that I felt like nobody was interested in me, the same way as I wasn't interested in anything others posted. So no, I left without telling anyone. If someone, anyone, tries to visit my profile, they'll know I deactivated the account. So they might ask me trough other media why I did so. When they do, I know that they at least found it was worth visiting my profile. I want to see how long it takes before anyone notices.
I'm impatient to see who will be first.
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