THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY AS TOLD BY STUMBLERS THEMSELVES :::: REPRINTED :::: Pt II :::: stumblers - stumbleupon.com I've pasted the fabulous MizRed's response to SU's latest announcement ... it's a very funny tongue in cheek post and she gets her point across with innate style and wit ::: FTP ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear SU - It pains me to say this but, I want to break up. Things have changed between us and not for the better. But then, it's always been that way. You've always called the shots forcing me to dance to your tune. In the beginning it was like most love affairs. We each had what the other wanted - you had lovely bright background colors, an assortment of fonts and the world at your fingertips. And me, I was new to the world of internet blogging and social networking and I was what you craved the most - a fresh face to be schooled in the language of Stumbleupon. You lured me in with your free toolbar and made it easy for me to love you. Then, after a while, after you knew I was yours, you changed. Yes, yes you did, don't deny it. Subtly and oh so smoothly you introduced "new" formats - changes that you said would allow you to give me more but somehow I always ended up with less. You smugly counted on my love for you and manipulated me into thinking that SU knew best and I, like an idiot, went along with it. Oh yes, I protested, but it fell on deaf ears and still, I hoped and prayed you would see the error of your ways and things would go back to the way they were before, when we first fell in love. At first, I blamed myself. I thought that I was the problem and the reason you had turned your back on me and the reason you started limiting your colors and shut down your fonts was that I had failed to let you know how much I loved you and somehow, someway, if I blogged more, if I posted more photos, revealed more of myself to you that you would realize how much I loved you and things would change. Instead, things got worse. It seemed that the more I blogged and posted and reviewed my love for SU the more you tried to isolate me from the rest of the world. You ran off my "Friends" and called them names like "Subscribers" and "Followers" and when I tried to protest to you, when I begged and pleaded for you to, for once, keep things the way they are, my protestations fell on deaf ears and then you passed me over to your friends at "Get Satisfaction". Oh sure, occasionally you would throw me a bone, like when you introduced the "News" but I realize now that when you meant "NEWS!" you meant your news and not MY news. But still my love for you held fast and I clung to the idea that you loved me because you said you loved me and that the reason you didn't have time for me anymore was because you were so busy with work and that what you did and the time and attention you spent doing it, you were doing for "us". For you and me. And our family. Or did you forget about our family? The family that you, SU, helped to create. Did our little family ever cross your mind when you decided unilaterally, once again, to just change everything!? I bet that you've been so busy with your "changes" that you haven't even bothered to notice that I stopped posting ages ago! I had to. After the "Gromplast" scare I have been at my wits ends. For weeks I was afraid to visit anyone for fear that I either would be infected or god forbid, infect someone else. You never did fully explain that one despite my repeated visits to "Get Satisfaction" which is why I was forced to dismantle Greasemonkey, let go my scripts and in case you haven't noticed (which I'm sure you haven't since you're always so busy) I moved across the hall into the stark white guest bedroom with the small fonts months ago. I'll be staying there while I make arrangements to have all of my stuff moved out before you make your "changes" in October. After that, I don't know. FaceBook has been begging me to join so maybe I'll go there. Tumblr? Google+? Who knows? The world is my oyster and they all seem to want me. But I do know this, and you don't have to hit me over the head with it anymore, I get it, my friends at FaceBook were right. - SU is just not that into you. :::