{"id":98,"date":"2006-02-02T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/02\/a-challenge\/"},"modified":"2006-02-02T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T13:16:00","slug":"a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/02\/a-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, to my loyal fans, do not misunderstand this as a plea or a begging. I see many people still are signing up for that ol&#8217; Facebook, and the notorious MySpace. The challenge is, can anyone prove to me that these sites are:<\/p>\n<p>A) Unique. Meaning, what do they offer that no site does better or mimics?<br \/>B) Worth Time. Why do I want to browse people&#8217;s profiles all day?<br \/>C) Not A Fad. Has anyone actually ever got anything useful out of these sites?<\/p>\n<p>Now I must admit I was once a member of Facebook. I looked through the site before I started my rant on it.  I deleted my account because numerous wanted to add me as a friend. I hadn&#8217;t spoken to many in years, and the others I never spoke to when I knew them. I must also admit I am a member of Orkut, Google&#8217;s social networking site. I am a member because it&#8217;s owned an operated by Google, not much more reason than that. I log in maybe every two weeks, and discover nothing is new. Erica claims that I will be sucked into MySpace&#8230; albeit regretfully, but I claim that I will not. I stand firm in my beliefs. So, with that, is anyone up to my challenge?<\/p>\n<p>Note: Once after deleting my facebook account, Bill Vedra told me that everyone got free pie, money, and pandas on the day that I deleted my account. Was that true?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, to my loyal fans, do not misunderstand this as a plea or a begging. I see many people still are signing up for that ol&#8217; Facebook, and the notorious MySpace. The challenge is, can anyone prove to me that these sites are: A) Unique. Meaning, what do they offer that no site does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZ9O-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}