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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | [[Cueball]] is very | + | {{incomplete}} |
+ | [[Cueball]] is very slowly following the described process of removing himself from a {{w|Social networking service|social network}}. Such actions are not necessary on any well-designed website, and actively unfriending people individually could be perceived rude or antisocial. | ||
− | The ''reverse order'' to unfriend people | + | The ''reverse order'' to unfriend people could refer to the correct {{w|Memory management|memory allocation and deallocation}} processes in {{w|programming language|programming languages}} like {{w|C (programming language)|C}}. When allocating a memory block ''A'' the {{w|Pointer (computer programming)|pointer}} ''a->'' will save the starting address of this memory block. The next memory blocks ''B'', ''C'', and ''D'' may use pointers saved inside of block ''A''. If starting the deallocation process at Block ''A'' you lose all information about the other blocks, you can't deallocate them. If the process repeats over and over the memory usage will accumulate and at the end there will be an {{w|out of memory}} error. |
− | + | But it also may refer to {{w|database|databases}} and the query language {{w|SQL}}. Modern web sites are always saved in such databases and using references from one entity to an other. A entity in this context is a thing in the modeled world, in this case Cueball and his ''friends''. By using the {{w|Entity–relationship model|entity–relationship model}} the ''friends'' will still have a relationship to the nonexistent user Cueball, the links are orphaned. | |
− | + | Alternate explanation: There are dozens of social media websites and forums that that discarded, either because they have outlived their usefulness, or because no one uses them. E.g., Orkut, Hi5. But even though you may not have visited them for years, they are still sitting there, gathering your "friends" statuses. It is often surprising to receive an email from a forum or social media website you haven't visited for years. The comic is saying, always unfriend everyone when you leave a group, so that you don't keep getting statuses for "friends" you no longer care about. The reverse order is because you unfriend the people you have known for the shortest period first. | |
− | + | In the title text, "database linkage accumulation slowdown" really is a thing that [[Randall]] just made up. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[ | + | :[Cueball sits at a desk, using a laptop.] |
:The internet is filled with derelict accounts aggregating news about friends long forgotten. | :The internet is filled with derelict accounts aggregating news about friends long forgotten. | ||
− | + | :<nowiki>*</nowiki>Click* | |
− | + | : Uhh, is everything OK? | |
− | + | :<nowiki>*</nowiki>Click* | |
− | + | : Dude, what the hell? | |
− | + | :<nowiki>*</nowiki>Click* | |
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:When you find yourself drifting away from a community, remember to clean up after yourself by slowly unfriending everyone, one by one, in the reverse order that you added them. | :When you find yourself drifting away from a community, remember to clean up after yourself by slowly unfriending everyone, one by one, in the reverse order that you added them. | ||