Comments | gram_negative: Registered Sex Offenders

gram_negative

Registered Sex Offenders

Mar 10, 2010 14:23

I've said before that Facebook is kind of like a social event...a cocktail party attended by basically everyone you've ever known, and occasionally crashed by people you don't. LiveJournal, on the other hand, is more like being with close friends. Close friends are people to whom you can occasionally admit the TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE things that ( Read more... )

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abulia March 10 2010, 20:18:54 UTC

One of the downsides of Facebook is its tendency to cause people to take serious things and turn them into...Facebook. I distinctly remember that when the shootings happened at Virginia Tech, people immediately jumped to make Facebook groups about it. REALLY? Why don't we deal with real life IN real life, guys? It's not as easy or as pleasant, I know, but um, some things aren't supposed to be.

gram_negative March 11 2010, 17:46:47 UTC

Also, in real life, you can't jump up in front of people and say "we should castrate them all, make them eat their own dicks, and then set them on fire!" without looking like what you are (ie, a psycho.)

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mukor March 11 2010, 10:24:52 UTC

Doug Stanhope is fantastic. Netflix used to have this one stand-up of his that I watched randomly (my first exposure to him). It used to be that cokeheads made the best stand-ups...now its drunks I guess.

gram_negative March 11 2010, 18:38:24 UTC

1) Yeah, it would definitely be a little different if someone were at least compiling signatures and sending congressional petitions, or something, but most of these groups seem to have agendas that go no further than...starting a Facebook group ( ... )