#Facebook #NewFacebook
I would tell you that Facebook yesterday flipped the script on users confusing the hell out of the masses and launching protest in front of the White House propelled by the Tea Party blaming President Obama’s “Change” campaign.  No seriously though.  The worldwide uproar from Social to traditional media is a referendum on the power that Facebook has had on our lives over the past few years.  While admittedly I’m not the reliant user I’m sure many Americans are, yesterday’s altering of the News Feed the addition of that bizarre “ticker” was a little off putting.

The changes are all part of the illuminatibook’s recently introduced “Subscribe” functionality which allows users to see any public post from users on the social network.

According to the official Facebook blog, the changes are in effort to make it more like a newspaper. If you’re like me and log in only once in a while the most popular stories from your friends and those you’re subscribed to appear on top. If you check it more frequently, more recent stories appear.  But as the Tea Party Nation we have become we don’t want anyone controlling what we see in our time line.  HANDS OFF THE TIMELINE!  Ok…simmer down folks.  The hope was to allow users to see more of what they want to, and less of what they don’t.  Apparently, Facebookers don’t like that convenience and would rather be distracted from their infinitely more important daily duties for longer periods of time sifting through piles of mindless status updates and pictures of one legged dogs.

The changes have already, believe it or not lead to hackers creating “Old Facebook” apps reverting the user’s individual design bact in time a few days when the world was a better place.  Ahhhhhhhh.  Applications like the free Chrome extension Facebook Ticker Remover completely does away with the Ticker,  Other extensions like Better Facebook and F.B. Purity allow users to remove certain elements. Both are available for Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera all of these will likely violate Facebook’s terms of service and those caught using them will be lynched on site.

My point is that we kid, joke about the illuminati, New World Order as some orifice from outer space, this global dictatorship under the direction of a Hitler-esque emperor but the truth is, our minds are our most vulnerable asset.  Facebook and other digital outlets have touched every aspect of our lives from how we communicate with family, friends, work to sharing, learning, traveling…living.  Give that much power to one source and well yeah….its quite easy to become the victim of its control.