Ya, I fudged up big time peeps. You see, I had this great post all set to go railing against the greed and stupidity of Facebook's new gift giving feature. That was until I read this...
You like that part where it talks about how all the money is going towards breast cancer research? It gets worse. In this post I had written, I even lambasted the graphics themselves calling them "middle school versions of Apple's OS X icons." Guess what...
Hear that? That would be the sound of the last nail being driven into my blog's coffin. So now I guess the only thing left to do is let you all read the post I'd written and take the ridicule like a man.
So long cruel world.
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Facecrook
One thing about being a complete web addict is that I feel compelled to a part of any and all social networking sites. It's not even that I'm proud of it (as evidenced by my MySpace button on the left there), but having an account seems to go with the net junkie turf. Lately it seems like my blog homies have been starting up Facebook accounts. This makes me chuckle because "back in the day" Facebook was college students only so I've been on it for some time (I like to think of myself as a Facebook "OG").
Sometime last week I got a message from Facebook saying that Hilly had given me a gift. Honestly, I didn't know what the hell this was so I logged on to check it out and saw this on my profile:
It also came with a little note from Hilly that said "Mmmmm, pizza!" I found this all to be mildly amusing, and not wanting to be the selfish Facebooker, I decided to give a gift back to Hilly. Turns out they've got a whole mess of little images you can send to people (with new ones coming out everyday). So I think I sent her a ninja or something. Then I realized that if I sent Hilly something, I had probably send Kevin something. Not wanting to get him the same gift I sent Hilly (because A.) that's totally poor form, and B.) he might take the gift of a ninja as some weird sign that I'd accepted them to be superioir to Pirates...WHICH I HAVEN'T!!!!), I settled on a Hula Girl since it was the closest thing I could find to a swashbuckler. Then I got this screen:
About that point my inner web child had a seizure.
Let me get this straight...Facbook wants you to fucking pay for an image so you can send it to your friend!??! Never mind the fact that these images are really just emoticons on steroids and that they look like middle school versions of Apple's OS X icons. I'm supposed to shell out real money for this shit?? Oh. My. God, People. Does no one else see the utter stupidy of this?!?!?!
:: My inner web child just had another seizure ::
So here's what I've decided. Seeing as how I've got to be one of the top 20 stingiest people in the Northern Hemisphere, I've come up with my own way to not be left out of this gift giving fun. I'll just make my own images and send them out to my blog peeps and bypass the sheer greed of what I have now come to dub, "Facecrook."
For Hilly:
Because I couldn't find a "churro" gift on Facebook.
For Kevin:
I think we both know what I'm trying to say here.
And for SRH:
My artistic representation of your personal hell.
Take that evil social networking site!!!! You won't get my hard earned cash for your silly pictures! Seriously people, they're are far too many amazing graphic artists out there for you to be giving your money to Facebitch.
Labels: Facebook Rant Piratesareforever
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And there you have it. Try not to write too many foul words on the envelopes containing your death threats...I think my mail carrier already hates me.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Campaigning Against Charities Means You Go To Hell
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I went crazy in with giving gifts in February because of the charity donations for purchases. Now that February is over, I find myself still giving gifts from time to time because it's fun... AND cheaper than a real gift! Talk about cheap!
OMG Dustin - you really are one of the funniest people I know. You have me freaking laughing my ass off right now! Uhmmm, I wish you could import your own gifts cause I like that churro!
I buy gifts in bulk and give them out when the mood strikes me because I am a total joiner...le sigh.
It's for charity? Now I feel like crap, too. Crap on a pirate, that is.
That ridiculous charging thing is the reason I didn't go the Facebook gift route either. Thanks for the clarif. I'll send you a ninja wearing a frilly pirate smock just to mock you.
Although I do get a kick out of your preschool attempts at computer drawings. Heh!
Go ninja, go ninja, go!
That is definitely personalized. Very scary and personalized.
i'm still not entirely sure wtf i am doing on facebook but i blame hilary entirely. :)
What gifts do *I* get?!?
for your internet researching pleasure, as well as the cultural learning that will happen, google cyworld...it's korea's version of facebook/myspace...you ain't seen nothing yet....
~insil
@ Dave2: True, it's cheapness is somewhat admirable and I guess you could say there is a laziness component as well.
@ Hilly: No joke! Who doesn't want a picture of Churro!?! And 10 bonus points for your "le sigh."
@ Kevin: I'm confused. What do you mean by "pre-school"? I spent like hours on these things.
@ SRH: I think yours in my fav. The hair placement took me 4 hours just to map out.
@ Sizz: Yes, it's best not to fight these things. Just accept that you're powerless and trust the internet knows best.
@ Karl: Yours was so scandalous it made Blogger blush. Needless to say I'll have to e-mail it to you.
@ Insil: I'd heard that Cyworld had pioneered the concept of virtual gift giving. Leave it to America to rip it off and then reproduce a half ass version of it.
I am duly impressed with your seemingly random, yet methodically structured hair placement. Something very Pollock about it.
@ SRH: Damn straight!
Can you imagine how much I have had to hear about this particular post, Dustin?
Don't do that, man. It's like poking a bear.
(great rendition, though)
@ Zany: In all honesty when I posted this I thought to myself "ya, Zany's gonna hear about this for like a week." But then I figured it that was half the fun. =)
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