The weirdness of Facebook

I dislike Facebook. A lot. And yet, I can’t look away, like a particularly noxious car wreck.

There are several things I find thoroughly weird about Facebook:

1. Only a handful of “friends” on Facebook are actually friends.
2. Most FB “friends” are people I went to High School with and haven’t heard from in 25 years, random people I worked with 10 years ago and haven’t seen since then, and…
3. Freeking almost every single ex-girlfriend I’ve ever had has found me on FB and friended me. That’s particularly weird. I think I found one or two more on my own– after I figured why not try to make a complete set–, and the rest found me.
4. And most of what everyone does on there is submit quizzes and puzzles and stupid chain-email-style crap.
5. The only moderately entertaining thing about it is the Twitter-like updates from a few people I know. If I could get those via Twitter or Identi.ca, I’d never go near FB at all.

Yes, that’s it. Facebook has jumped the shark; it is now just one big chain email.

Scroll down to see the answer… and send this to 10 of your friends for good luck!!!!!!!

Separated at birth?

I know, it is so silly. But I cannot resist.

James Howard Kunstler:

Eric S. Raymond:

WTF?

I like Kunstler, and can’t handle much of Raymond, but seriously, WTF? They look like twinsies.

Religious analogy salad

Wow, that’s weird.

Our President, giving an excellent and hard-hitting speech about our economy, used two very blatantly religious analogies that are key to two very different religions.

First of all, he very correctly and boldly identifies the key problem with our economy: it’s built on bullshit and a ridiculous level of inequality.

Then he gets to the solution:

1. The Sermon on the Mount (a central teaching of Christianity)
2. and The Five Pillars of Islam

WTF?

This guy is a master at mash-ups. I guess it’s inclusive, which is nice, and will either pull in right-wingers or make their heads explode, but it seems kind of weird to me too– and unnecessary.

His economic analysis is spot-on, but what’s up with all the religious hoo-hah thrown in there?

What he said

Hot damn this is perfect.