FUN FACEBOOK GAMES: DEALING WITH THE WAY FACEBOOK.COM PURPOSEFULLY MAULS MINDS.COM GRAPHICS AND TEXT POSTS.

With the launch of Minds approaching, great improvements in blogging software will be out soon.  In graphics, young Minds already has old Facebook beaten by a mile. Consequently if you send something from the Minds' transfer ap to Facebook, Facebook mauls it so that its users won't see how much better Minds is on that score. 

There are myriad tricks.

If the graphic is a stunning Minds video of a kalideoscoping mandala or a stop-motion of an opening pinecone, Facebook renders it as a blank screen.

If it's a simpler text post, Minds vid or a photo, FB cuts the sweeping beauty off or renders the text post less attractive by cramming it into a thumbnail that's too small for it.  Shiva (above) on Facebook ends up with no legs, no side hands and no head.

If it's a Minds cartoon, FB cuts off both the set-up and the punchline. For example on Facebook, the following Minds joke appears without its first and last line.  On Facebook, that joke comes out, "Remembered for his violence/and not his brilliant." Hunh???? It actually says,

There are two basic ways that you can personally handle this:

1. Don't Let Facebook Know That The Minds Video, Photo or Drawing Came From Minds Until It's Too Late For Facebook To Mutilate It. Instead of using the Minds transfer ap, download the graphic onto your laptop or cell, and then upload it onto Facebook from there. It will enter Facebook without the Minds digital signature -- so Facebook won't harm it. Once you've got it posted, identify it in your caption as coming from Minds. [Heh-heh.]

2. Go Ahead and Use The Minds Transfer Ap To Send The Graphic To Facebook, Thus Allowing Facebook to Mutilate It. Then Make Fun of Facebook For Having Done It. 

For example I sent a Minds video of Yoda looking dejected, ears lowering, shoulders slowly sagging. Facebook rendered it as a thumbnail-sized still. I left it that way and added the following: ___________________________________________________________________________________

"SPEECH IS FREE OR NOT FREE. THERE IS NO HALF FREE.

"On Minds.com, Yoda moves. That same video clip of Yoda when sent to my Facebook page is however either rendered blank or turned into a thumbnail and frozen into a still by Facebook, a monopoly which in its greed fears above all Minds, the scrappy, mystic, open source little guy with the high tech sword."

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Have fun with it.  The next time that Facebook fails to accurately reproduce what you send it from Minds, write an intro for the blank space or for the still picture that FB made out of a Minds video, and turn the visual evidence of Facebook pettiness into an ad for Minds. [BWOOO-Ha-ha-ha-ha!]

Enjoy....