In yo' Face

I don't get what the kids are doing these days(said in my best crotchety old lady voice). Case in point- Facebook. I don't quite understand it. Its like email, but not. Its like IM, but not. Its like a blog, but yet again, not. Now I have an account, mostly because I wanted to see my cousin's Face (a way better name than profile - c'mon Facebook, get creative up in herre). I have realized that that is how most people get started on it. They need to be registered to have access into someone elses Face, so they sign up themselves. Now you have all of these people, all connected, who are only there to see what the other one is doing, but not listing what they themselves are doing. Do you see the irony in this? I do.

Facebook also has all of these plug-in, add-on things. Some are kinda cool, like a map that lets you list where you have been in the world, and games like Scrabble that you can play with others over many weeks (and you thought Trivial Pursuit took a long time to end). Some of these plug-in are so random, they are more like viruses that people willingly sign up for. I logged in today after having not used it for a month, and found that I had been bitten by a Vampire, a Werewolf, a Zombie, and was been requested to join the Pirates in fighting the Ninjas (which I declined because ninjas rool, pirates drool). For the bites I received, if you "Accept the Bite" it adds the plug-in to your account and you can start biting people. The point? Who the hell knows. To get the most bites, I think. And oh, what an honor that is - to be the most popular dork.

I just looked again. They also have "Gifts" that you can give. Apparently, the gifts are small Clip Art images that you can send to your friends. Awww, that's cute. So I click on the Gift giving option. It informs me that I have one gift to give and after that, gifts are $1 each. Asphinctersayswhat? $1 for an inch square Clip Art image? If these Facebook people are making money on Gifts, then our society is not far from the world portrayed in Idiocracy.

Because I love you all so much, here are a few "Gifts" for you. Stolen straight from Facebook. You are welcome.

Told ya ninjas rool.
(Seriously, who is going to pay a buck for an icon of a grown man trying to emulate the Coppertone baby? Thats just creepy. Or is it sexy? Let me check. No, its creepy.)