Three things
First, comment filtering is magic with extra sparkles. Whereas previously I was faced with a queue of a hundred or so spam comments every time I logged in, since the switch a week ago I’ve had to moderate three whole comments. THREE. And two of them were from real people. (The third was an ad for online poker in French.)
By the way, I’m not sure if “approved commenter” status carried over in the switch, so you might have to wait a while to see your first comment post-update. If you’ve posted something that’s completely disappeared, email me (prepoceros at gmail).
Second, someone in my future law school class created a UHLC 2011 Facebook group. As of today it boasts 45 members*, which is a decent chunk of the class. Last week one person friended everyone in the group, and all of a sudden everybody thought that was a great idea, and I found a whole chain of friend requests in my email inbox. Now I’m Facebook-friends with like six people I’ve never met, and I’m not that kind of Facebook-friender, so it weirds me out a little.
Third, I hate it when some website I’ve registered for sends me a confirmation email with my password PRINTED RIGHT THERE IN THE EMAIL. I know my email is encrypted and there’s probably no one snooping around in hopes of catching my japanesepod101.com** login, but OMGdon’tDOthat. Opening an email with your favorite password typed out in explicit non-* characters is like walking in on your grandma naked. Creepy, I know, and I’m sorry, but ISN’T IT? It is.
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* I logged in to Facebook to look up that number…and an hour later, I’m back. But at least I figured out how to upload pictures, so now my profile picture is less than two years old. Progress!
** The latest offender.
