So I'm big on social networking... by this I don't mean the I have 9million friends on myspace all from Israel, or that I tweet every bowel movement I have (like you know you should GeeGee). But generally my laptop is on all day, signed into MSN (busy) and facebook is up on one of the browsers on one of the screens. So when something ruins it for me it does rattle my cage... and I don't mean "we want old facebook back because I can't handle change and have so little life that I complain when something attempts to excel in the mediocracy based society we live in... and if people join my page I can pretend I have friends".
The thing that has pissed me off recently (and this is beyond the server changeover where it would 10 attempts before you could 'like' something... or changing your profile picture resulted in removing it... or a mindless painful nothingness that somehow requires lots of loading... fags!) is (yes there is a sentence in here somewhere) those annoying "become a fan to see a picture that is in some way related to an intriguing title involving the words LOL and OH-EM-JEE" pages (wasn't really worth all that reading was it?).
Fan pages have always bugged me a bit, despite the vast amount of them that I "agree with"... oops I mean "become a fan of" ... because let's face it, it's not like it was intended where you would be a fan of someone famous or an entity worthy of fans. It is simply you read a statement and agree with, or find it amusing, and so click the button in support. So when I finally got to terms with this they had to some up with something new... If there is a funny picture on the internet... I want to see it... IF I like it, I might go as far as to become a fan of a page based solely around that image. I shouldn't have to become a fan just to see an image that 9/10times is totally overrated... I don't want to have to make my friends hate me by inviting them either... I have managed to grind my friend list down to about 250people that I actually give a shit about now, I don't need to give them a reason to give less of a shit about me by inviting them to shitty fan boy fan pages... or spamming up their home page with "Joe Curious and ALL of your other friends became a fan of..." it's just fucking annoying.
Initially when these were first around I did actually join one. However how should this entity that I am supposedly a "fan" of repay me? well by every time it hits a "milestone" amount of fans... like one that ends in a zero... yer that's a milestone to the creators... well they deem it necessary to announce this to it's "fan"base and then require me to further alienate my friends by pestering them to "become a fan". Both of which I could do if I wanted to by visiting their page - if it had any decent content that was worth recommending - and ACTUALLY DOING SO!
So as I imagine you can guess I will not be joinging any of them... and take any opportunity I can to 'Hide' them from my facebook... job done!
Thanks for hearing me out... big love.
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