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Facebook Fiends (Part 2)
A few of my friends were offended that I totally ignored their type in my first post on this subject. So, in an effort to please everyone, I have revisited the topic and have ended up adding a few more Facebook Fiends to my list. Here they are:
Facebook Fiends (Part 1)
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The following list is comprised of examples of the worst kind of people you’re ever likely to befriend on Facebook. Chances are, you’re probably at least one of them. Or I’m sure you know a few anyway.
Fuck Facebook, sometimes. Really.
After 3 years of this stupid social networking craze, Facebook has managed to prove (thanks BTW!) something I already knew – that I have very few friends. What makes it worse is that Facebook has made it a public statistic, for everyone to see. Now, I don’t know who the culprit is, but some assholes just “defriend” me. The audacity of those bastards. I actually used to have more friends than I currently do. Of course, I use the term “friends” loosely, in Facebook terms. But, yeah, quite a bit more. Slowly, without my knowledge, people have removed me from their friend’s lists. The next time Facebook upgrades itself and annoys the fuck out of us, I recommend it have a feature for people to know whose friend’s lists they’ve been removed from. I have the right to know. Because I would like to send them a message. It would go something like this: Continue reading
When grown ups go online
In a desperate effort to bridge that ever-increasing generation gap, my dad decided that he must join Facebook. And why not? Everyone’s on it. He got on the bandwagon, along with a few other grown ups (in this case meaning people 50+) in my family and suddenly, my family tree, which I have been attempting to build for years, came alive as a social network of its own.
Fuck that shit.
The Heartbreak Kids
After a year of surprising-but-long-awaited ups and there-they-go-again downs, the Pakistani cricket fans were treated to a great 2nd Test at SCG, glued to their seats after the Aussie crumble on Day 1. Continue reading
How Facebook put our vanities into overdrive
At the club, my friend points out (with just his eyebrows) a group of girls dressed up as construction workers getting drunk. An obvious bachelorette party, I reckon. These girls are binge drinking and getting their pictures taken by passers-by, each time maintaining the woo-hoo/wild-times poses, and getting real up-close and raising their martini glasses to accentuate the girl-power phenomenon. Tomorrow, I imagine, some time around noon, the owner of the camera will wake up all groggy and dehydrated, plug her camera to her laptop, create a new Facebook album called “GiRlS gOnE FrIkKiN’ WiLd” and post it to their profile. All the other girls will tag themselves, they’ll all look perfect and everyone will know they had a wild time at Sophia’s bachelorette party, and life will go on.
FarmKill 1.0: A FarmVille Upgrade for Real People
Following up on my very recent post about the problems with FarmVille, I have taken the liberty to suggest an upgrade targeted specifically at real people. Let’s face it, this rotten game is only popular with goody-two-shoes people, and if you read the earlier post, you’ll know just why.
