Aw crap. A moral quandary.
Despite my refreshingly unpretentious exterior, I do engage in some pretentious behavior. While I don't buy trendy bags that announce my green proclivities, I don't shop at Wal-Mart on various principles ranging from their sexual discrimination to their destruction of many local stores I once loved. I still shop at Target despite the fact that they sometimes don't fill birth control prescriptions because they do support some causes I think are good.
However, news of Rupert Murdoch's purchase of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal (holy fucking shit, goodbye journalism!) has me thinking. Somehow, it didn't register with me that MySpace-- my favorite workplace downtime activity and means of stalking people I went to high school with to see if they got fat-- is owned by News Corp until now.
Since I was disturbed by this knowledge, I talked to my socially conscious indie-band friend Chris about his thoughts on the subject. What follows is our comment conversation via Rupert Murdoch's pedophile paradise:
Me: Chris, I have a question. MySpace is owned by News Corp. Why do we use this? Is it like watching the Simpsons, and we have to take the good with the bad?
Chris: I've been thinking that everyone should switch to Facebook. Fuck Rupert Murdoch. I hope MySpace tanks and he has to sell five yachts to cover his debt.
Me: Sigh. But I have just built up my empire of minions on this site and have resisted facebook for so long. I guess revolution is always inconvenient.
Chris: Baby steps, Derjue; baby steps.
1.) Create Facebook profile
2.) Tell others about said profile
3.) When feasible, delete MySpace account
I think I'm going to do that myself, actually. Seriously, the only thing better about MySpace anymore is the fact that everyone uses it. But the more people that try Facebook, the more popular it'll be.
Now I just have to get the thirty- and forty-something folks I convinced to join MySpace over to Facebook. The revolution will not be bulletined, friends.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
MyFreakout
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OK, I admit it: I got a Facebook account a few months ago, not because I'm so cool, but so I could look up all these college kids who kept doing stuff like breaking into church buildings on Mission Hill.
Seems like the last month or so, I've started getting tons of invites or pokes or whatever the Cool Facebook Kids call them. And almost all from Baby Boomer types.
What's sort of annoying: Tons of applications whose main purpose seems to be to get you to invite all your friends to use it, like some virtual pyramid scheme, only with less of a point. Thank goodness somebody made a Facebook version of Abe Vigoda Status - at least there's one useful thing on my profile page!
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