{"id":4042,"date":"2010-10-28T18:30:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2010-10-28T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:30:26","slug":"using-facebook-whilst-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4042","title":{"rendered":"Using Facebook Whilst Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t surprise me – there was this story on Autoblog<\/a> last week. There is a new menace on the roads: Facebook.<\/p>\n

\"FacebookI’ve mentioned on several occasions<\/a> (just search for “texting” using the search facility on the right) that the number of people who are obviously texting whilst driving is increasing all the time. But it seems there may have been more to it than I thought.<\/p>\n

Now, I’ve got to be completely honest about this.\u00a0I have\u00a0never<\/em> understood Facebook or its appeal. Oh, I’m a member – but whenever I follow a link back to the page it came from I am amazed by the utter rubbish at the other end in most cases.<\/p>\n

It is full of sad people having conversations with themselves, or “making friends” with other sad people (which amounts to clicking a button and appearing as a “friend” on their “friends” list, and almost nothing else). Even where there is a page with attempts at sensible discussion on it, Facebook\u00a0 is not exactly the most navigable system in the world – and it is infested by halfwits who are only there to swear. And who gives a toss whether “Frazer from Hertford likes this”?<\/p>\n

Here are some examples picked at random from profiles and Facebook discussions:<\/p>\n

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Music: Cheryl Cole, U2, Snow Patrol <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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…here’s a good tip if your feeling sh*t WEAR GLOVES <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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F*** YOU! \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [censored by me] <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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finks its time 2 calm down abit now and maybe grow up … actually f*** that il just calm down \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [censored by me] <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It doesn’t get any better than this. So it should come as a shock to everyone to learn that the sad\u00a0imbeciles who can’t live without Facebook are now using it while they are driving! According to Autoblog:<\/p>\n

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The success of websites like Facebook and Twitter, combined with the rise of the smartphone, has added another dimension to the list of likely distractions. <\/p>\n

While calls and texts remain the biggest reason for taking your eyes off the road, the study also listed the applications motorists were most likely to use at the wheel. The largely predictable top five were email, Google Maps, music, photos and Facebook. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And let’s not just single out Facebook here. Twitter lends itself far more easily to being used whilst driving. But the problem is the same.<\/p>\n

It truly is frightening that people like this are allowed to keep their licences. They should be banned for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t surprise me – there was this story on Autoblog last week. There is a new menace on the roads: Facebook. I’ve mentioned on several occasions (just search for “texting” using the search facility on the right) that the number of people who are obviously texting whilst driving is increasing all the time. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}