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Facebook Groups

I thought it was somehow important to list which Facebook groups I am in:

California Love Agnostics and Atheists Amalgamate Eddie Izzardites Lazy Asses Zoolandericous Arrested Development, whut. I Break For Sherpas! [That hansel is so hot right now] Futuramarama Premed But Hate Every Other Fucking Premed Student Bitch, I Live In a Garbage Can I Miss In-n-out Soy Milk Lovers Just Say No To Spanish Midgets With Sideways Ponytails I’m Awesome, You’re Not. Norcal Pride Frozen Californians Club The Original Zoolander School For Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Want to Do Other Stuff Good Too Vegetarian Hot People Showgirls – the Greatest Movie Ever Made Mullet Hunters of NYU People Who Think Poop Is Funny I Left My Heart In San Francisco I’ve Got a Fever…and the Only Prescription Is More Cowbell! Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Want To Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too I’d Be A Slut If I Didn’t Go To NYU I Have a Love-Hate Relationship With My Breasts The Bluth Company Diet Coke addiction Househeads Cali at NYU Drugs, Alcohol, Violence and Insanity Have always Worked For Me Sarcastic Bastards Boys Should Be Spanked To Death God I’m So Fucking Awesome. I Have No Clue Who the Fuck You Are But You Can Be My Facebook Friend Anyway Cause You’re Hot I nose around the facebook profiles of people I’ve never met and join groups they’re in Techno-heads Anonymous I Believe In Sex Before Marriage jungle/dnb appreciation club Northern California Kicks Southern California’s Mystic Tanned Ass No, I’m Not Talking On a Cell Phone, I’m Talking To Myself Wearing Sunglasses at all Times Keeps Me Separated From You, the Underlings Girls Only Like Guys With Skills…you Know Like Numbchuck Skills and Bow Hunting Skills I Like Looking at Pictures of Myself FUCK YOU LADY THAT’S WHAT STAIRS ARE FOR (An Avenue Q Fan Group) No Matter What We Planned On / Were Doing, We End Up at Josie Woods Every Fucking Night Fuck God!!! Who’s With Me? Patrick Bateman Is One of My Role Models. Fuck You, Microsoft Word Paperclip! Has Patrick Inhaled Too Many Orgo Lab Fumes?

Snake Oil 2.0

So evil Yahoo bought delicio.us, a collaborative tagging website. The usual suspects have been writing lots of crap about “Web 2.0” over the last few years, about how it was going to turn us into a hive mind and free our souls, or something similar. Sites like this that used lots of tagging were, apparently, the Answer to some great Question, online harbingers of some kind of cybernetic Rapture.

Notwithstanding the booster drivel, it both amuses and saddens me that “Web 2.0” is indeed turning out to be just another exit strategy and key hype spew for tool makers, as was predicted by naysayers all along.

Yahoo is where good ideas go to die in its evil, uncaring corporate bosom of anti-user hostility. EGroups. Geocities. Broadcast. The list goes on and on.

When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements – the invention of some new valve or sprocket – while remaining heedless of the world’s barbarism
(Julian Barnes – Flaubert’s Parrot)

The young and the naive at least have an excuse for credulous optimism. Those old enough to know better usually *do* know better, but have a vested interest in the whole bubble boosterism.