Facebook: The Idiots breeding ground
Posted on: 20 January 2010
Apologies for this rant, but it's something I'd like to share. Something that has come about fairly recently on Facebook (correct me if I'm wrong) is fan pages. Now as I understand, these are for celebrities, musicians, actors, etc. - anyone who has "fans". However it seems the intellectually-challenged sector of Facebook has managed to confuse and misuse this feature.
As an example, let's say I wanted to become a fan of Scrubs' very own Zach Braff. I would visit his fanpage on Facebook and select the "Become a Fan of" button. Pretty obvious use of the "fanpage", don't you think?
Well it seems these fanpages are being used to broadcast ridiculous statements containing no real information or anything in the way of content. Pages like "OMFG! He dumped me! Hes such a bastard. HE IS GOING TO PAY!!!!!11" and "stop chatting shit behind my back! grow sum balls nd tell me 2 my face!!" - you get the idea. I can only assume these kind of fanpages are created by sexually-frustrated, grammatically-challenged teens. Of course, if you can relate to this statement, you want to become a fan of this. And it turns out people actually join these fanpages. In their hundreds of thousands in fact.
What's wrong with this? Well, on these "fanpages", every time the owner writes anything on the wall, it repeats the whole name of the fanpage. In exactly the same way when you write something on your personal profile, your name appears before it. Fair enough, you might say, were it not for the senseless messages seen on the fanpage walls. Something along the lines of "Yea! 1000 members! woop woop!", "OMG! 25,000 pplz. Dis is well popular!". Put it together and you get a rivetingly necessary message along the lines of:
stop chatting shit behind my back! grow sum balls nd tell me 2 my face!! Yea! 1000 members! woop woop!
And more often than not, this is pretty much the extent to the fanpages' content. The way I see it, shouldn't this kind of content - if it must exist at all - be contained to groups? I dunno, maybe Facebook has changed since I was a frequent user. Just seems a little bizarre to me.