Along the same lines as the logic that says it’s not guns that kill people, it’s people who kill people, I am beginning to wonder if it’s Facebook itself that is troubling, or is it the people who use Facebook who are troubling? Or is it simply that Facebook provides a troubling venue for troubling people?
The reason this question is clunking around in my mind is that the frequency with which people post status updates telling people to simply cut and paste their message into their own status updates seems to be on the uptick. Write the color of the bra you’re wearing and post it in your status update. Okay! If you’re a Christian, stand up and be counted and proud by cutting and pasting this into your status update. Hallelujah!!
Here’s a good one, from yesterday morning: Lets support our troops. If you support our troops then please post this on your status and leave it there for one hour. There should be no excuses from anyone!!!! This should appear in everyones status. Please do this for the ones that make this the Home of the Free because of the Brave!!!!
Don’t waste any time thinking about it. Don’t bother using Facebook to actually say something about yourself, or what you’re doing or, God forbid, what you’re thinking. Just cut and paste and tell the world you ‘support the troops’ by doing nothing more than clicking a few keys. Isn’t it awesome?
About Me
- Rotary
- Portland, Oregon, United States
- I'm in my mid 40s and long for the era when the main mode of communication was the rotary telephone. As I recall, people knew how to spell without spell check, they answered their phones unless they weren't home and twittering was something birds did on cartoons. All ironies aside, I really miss those days.