Timeline Worries Twice Removed?

So you`re not happy with what your Facebook profile looks like now.

Alternative 1: State your discontent, loud and clear. Tutorial here.

Alternative 2: Take it like a man. Tutorial here. (Ok, ok, you can also take it like a woman).

What`s that I hear? We`re all Zen now and we`ve chosen the non-abidance and non-attachment way. Excellent. May I, then, present your serene highness with a couple of dovish, dewy-eyed Timeline effacement schemes that I`m sure WON`T get you hooked.

You will not click to see the wonder and you will not end up on this lovely page:

 

As you keep repeating to yourself the final words of the Diamond Sutra ” “All conditioned phenomena/Are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, or shadows/Like drops of dew, or flashes of lightning/Thusly should they be contemplated.” ” you will refrain from joining the click and share madness that`s about to break out. Nothing but rubbish on your profile will come out of it. True enlightenment, isn`t it?

While you levitate with joy at having escaped the first of today`s temptations, I say the game`s definitely not over.

Back to the sutras so you:

a) meditate: have I checked whether this is possible or not?

b) awaken wisdom: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

c) get insight: Google it!

Liberation will come. What`s a good story without a nice ending so let me click and take my follow my other non-Zen companions to the mysterious add-ons land.

We`ll trust the Timeline hater community`s best intentions and install it. What can happen?

That`ll be the end of your calm and detached days. A quick look at your Activity Log will reveal the mischief the higher power of the Facebook worm is capable of: an abundance of posts on your friends` walls will stand proof of your (accidental) scam endorseiung activity. And that`s just a fraction of what may actually happen as this kind of worms are designed with data theft in mind.

Got some food for meditation, I’d say.

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