Curse You Lord Facebook!

Once upon a time... the Land of Social Media was nice and all the applications played well together. The Lady Blog spoke kindly to the Lord Facebook and he granted her access to the pages via the fey application Simplaris so that more friends and relatives could read her words with ease and without having to navigate the vast and confusing Web to find those words.

But lo! Time passed and the Lord Facebook embraced greed and jealousy. Too many were using his pages to peer into realms he did not control. They bypassed his embedded aps, games and assorted tools of addiction and looked beyond to the sphere in which the Lady Blog and others like her dwelt.

He could not allow this! It was not right! It challenged his authority as Lord and master of Social Media and besides, he was not getting a kick-back... this must be stopped! Were not his notes pages worthy of reading? Could not the friends and relatives find the words on his pages? Why did they need to seek the Lady Blog's words elsewhere? Could they not succumb to his rule and remain locked within the pages of his realm?

So he shut down the paths and closed the windows into the realm of the Lady Blog. He refused to play nice with the applications not of his making. Or at least those unwilling to curry favor and bestow upon him payment. So now those seeking the Lady Blog's words would have to traverse the vast Web without convenience. They would have to use the oft confusing tools of the wizards Google and Bing to find the realm of Blog.

But Lord Facebook forgot one little thing in his arrogance... the Lady Blog could still provide a link via the arcane "status update" to her realm and in one magical click the paths to her words would again be open.

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