Graffiti and brackets

Anybody who's on facebook might have noted that a few weeks ago they wanted to add links to all the interests in the info page. Well, that box kept popping up and annoying me when I wanted to do something else, so I think I just clicked OK or something else and ignored it. Anyway, last night I chanced to look at my info tab and discovered there a few curiousities. Facebook had listed among my interests "Graffiti" and then later on "Bracket".

I wondered where it got such objects of interest from?

It would seem that my interest in "writing" turned into "Graffiti". Sad, sad, sad. Is that all facebook knows to associate with "writing" as a thing to do? Also "crochet" had turned into "bracket", as in the good ole parentheses sort. I mean, I can understand that there is no crochet in the facebook generation, but pity help me if one of my interests in life becomes parentheses. Is that what happens when you've been an editor for 50 years? Some people could take a little more interest in brackets and other forms of grammar - call me an old fogey, but I think the merits of grammar in aiding meaning and interpretation need no defence, yet even so the meaning and interpretation of a thing is a whole lot more interesting than the grammar used to get there.

So I'm going to have to go and clean up after facebook and make myself look a little more fascinating.