Wednesday, March 10, 2010

On Facebook, part two

The new trend in "fan" pages is to require you to become a fan before you can see exactly what it is that you just signed your name to. For example, "I lol'd at how awkward this relationship status update became". Two of my friends became fans, so I clicked the link. There I found information saying that to see the relationship status update that caused thousands of people to lol, I must first become a fan! What to do? Would I, as promised, lol? Would it be a disappointment? Who knows? I caved to the pressure, read the moderately awkward update, and deleted my name from the list of fans. Imagine my surprise later in the day when four or five other fan pages my friends joined had similar instructions. Sorry, fan pages. It's just too much work to join and unjoin. I guess I'll have to live my whole life without knowing what tattoo some guy will regret when he's older or what Megan Fox looked like in high school. Ah, well. As someone wise once said, opportunity is never lost. Someone else will take the ones I miss.

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