Facebook is not meme-proof
Apparently, it’s “Doppelgänger Week” at Facebook. The idea being that you’re supposed to put up a picture of a celebrity who people say you look like. Well, I don’t do stupid crap like that. But if I did, I’d have put up a picture of Ice Cube.
Straight outta Worcester!
Spittin’ images. I almost don’t recognize myself sometimes. Okay, so I’ve never actually been mistaken for Mr. Cube, but I always saw a resemblance. In my family we always say, “You can tell your own.” I just didn’t feel like going with the old “HEY COSTANZA LOL” treatment this time around.
ANYWAY. This is just an example of the kind of thing that I hate to see at Facebook. MySpace was rife with this sort of thing and now it’s creeping up on my cleaner, more streamlined social network of choice. Soon enough there’ll be plenty of embedded music players and migraine-inducing animated backgrounds. That’s how this sort of thing starts. There goes the neighborhood.
I’ve got more to say about social networking… it’s a video I’ve wanted to do for a good long time and once I’ve got a weekend to myself, I just might do it.
2 Responses to “Facebook is not meme-proof”
kag on: February 1st, 2010 at 9:45 pm
who’s pushing these things? is it random, or does facebook have a squad out there with nothing on the agenda but creating and perpetuating these gimmicks? I do enjoy some, but can’t buy the “93% of people won’t publish this plea for a cure, will you?” types of things. you do look like ice cube. a lot. it’s creepy.
Steve on: February 1st, 2010 at 10:08 pm
I’m not sure where these things come from, either, but they spread like wildfire. It bugs me too; I only have enough time for one status update. I’d rather it was just my own than to support some cause – mostly because said cause doesn’t get anything out of it anyway. Much like every email forward that’s been circulating since 1998.
Leave a Reply