Facial Viral Infection

Hey chums.

So, I've been on good old FaceSpace for a little while now and I've met some interesting people, that's for sure! I've tried out a handful of applications. 

One that has caught my eye is Human Pets a very interesting application, that is more like a sub community. Some have admitted to me that they ONLY use facespace to get to "HP" as it's affectionately known by the community. Buying and selling your friends and complete strangers is the order of the day, social interaction and flirting with all and sundry. And I have even heard tales of owners and pets meeting for real! One couple are now actually in a proper, real-time, physical relationship! (They WILL remain nameless, so please don't ask)

One thing I have noticed in my short time in the community is the amount of viral sh!te knocking around the place! FunWall, for instance, suffers terribly! The kind of tripe you see on there!:

• "Forward this message and Marky Suckaburger will pay you $1 for every friend you send it to!" Oh please! Does anyone actually think the king of FaceSpace is going to do that? Let's try the math on this... There are, roughly, 69 million users world wide, if you discount for the inactive account, (probably 10%) that's 62 million people. if every one of them has ONLY 20 friends (bare in mind my pal who let me look at his account has 236 friends) and DOES actually forward the message on and it goes NO further, as in no-one else forwards it after they have received it, that's 62 million multiplied by 20. That is a grand total of 1240 million! now imagine each of those 20 friends sent it on again to another 20.... you see!? And when would it stop? Joe Bloggs who you sent it to, sent it to his 20 friends. wouldn't you be one of his friends? Hmmmm..... Think about it!!! How soon would Mr Suckyourburger be bankrupt???
• "If you don't forward this message..." followed by some stupid event that will befoul your life. For example, "...your loved one will leave you!" or "...You will have 5 years bad sex!" What the f**K??? 5 years?? Would you not stop after 2? another favorite, "...you will have nothing but bad luck for the rest of your life and die lonely of a painful debilitating disease!" Again, HOW DUMB are these people that forward this rubbish! What are they thinking? "Oh my god! i better forward this RIGHT AWAY to everyone I know! I don't want (insert scary future event here) or any of my friends to have it either!" I'm going to say no more about this one as it makes me mad!
• "Forward this prayer and little Timmy's terminal cancer will be cured!" I need say not a word about these ones!!

And then you have groups. Bunches of people with the same interests or who work in the same place. Now these I have no problem with. Other than the stupid ones... 

• "If a million people join this group I'll name my unborn child Superman!" What? Really? Did a million people join? I'll bet they did! And did he name his child Superman? I'll bet he bloody well didn't!
• "If a million people join this group starving children in Africa will be fed for a year"Again, HOW? Who's going to feed them? Is a bag of rice suddenly going to magic into existence if I join the group? And what happens if the group gets to a million and then a few people leave taking the number below a million? Is the food taken from the grasp of a starving child?

Ok so it looks like I'm a bit down on Facespace. Trust me, learned reader, when I tell you I LOVE FaceSpace! It's Web 2.0 at it's best! And long may it reign! It's just 50% of the users that are thick as mince, that are my problem! 

See you in the space! Add me! I can send you links to my group! "If a million people join this group I won't start a group asking a million people to join"

Ciao for now!