I am browsing through my Facebook miscellaneous time wasters the other day and as I am checking out the status time line to see who is doing what. All of the sudden, I see something very strange in the right sidebar. Do you want to become a fan of sleeping? Interesting…who isn’t a fan of sleeping? At some point in time in our lives we are all a fan of sleeping. It seems kind of odd to have a whole page dedicated to all that is sleep and its pure greatness in this world. I didn’t think much of it and moved on to commenting random thoughts of pure genius on other people’s wall o’ thoughts.
Again, I come back to the home screen to check on more status updates because in our instant information world…we have to know what everyone is doing right then or we will lose our freakin’ minds. On my right column there is a new box…do you want to become a fan of Jesus? Are you serious? Did Jesus really come down and say…
You know what? I am having kind of a slow day. I’ll create a Facebook fan page!
Does it make me sacrilegious do not become a fan of Jesus? On that day where all of my life decisions come into question at the pearly gates of heaven, am I not going to gain entrance into eternal bliss because I didn’t become a fan on Facebook?
I’m sorry Robb. We would love to let you in, but you never became a fan of me. You had your chance man…sorry!
Are people going to think differently of me if I don’t become a fan? What if I hold those beliefs but don’t want to profess them on Facebook? After 5 minutes of the internal mind/thought circling…I let it go and went about my business. Then it hit…
- Do you want to become a fan of God?
- Do you want to become a fan of the beach?
- Do you want to become a fan of I need a vacation?
- Do you want to become a fan of I love sleep (not just sleep like before).
This is insanity and it needs to stop! What happened to becoming a fan of sports teams or tv shows? Do I really have to be a fan of everything I like in life or can I just enjoy it and move on? Whoever is creating all of these fan pages needs to have their keyboard taken away….
Do you want to be 1 of 3,404,204 people that are a fan of “I need a vacation”?
I’m just not that insecure.
I still like that link at the bottom of Jesus’s page. The one that says “Click here to get an apple from the Tree of Knowledge!!!”
It’s a test, don’t click that sh!t.
Actually, it’s not the real thing. Jesus is just out to Rick Roll some suckers.
I thought we decided it was a fan page of some hispanic dude..
The url was painted on the back of his truck.
What I find even more disturbing is that some of my facebook friends are already fans on these inane pages. The other day the right side of my screen listed the fan page for Money. Really, “money”. So who DOESN’T like money? But I can’t say I’m a “fan” of money…..maybe some bills from Monaco with a hot picture of Princess Grace, or something, but otherwise money is just money.
Nevertheless, 6 of my friends were already fans. I wanted to figure out which friends they were, but Money already has over 1 million fans, so I decided ot to search.
I know how you feel. 4 of my friends are fans of “I need a vacation”
I’m a fan of this post.
Your blog is so true. I keep hoping if I click them, then they will go away. Ummm… No! Even if you are a fan, it keeps asking you to be a fan. I don’t understand it either, it’s like that farm thing- What? Seriously? I needed a good laugh today. Thanks Robb!
Major LOL!
did they any money form those “bacame fan”‘s ? maby i will make one too…::))) joke…
you gotta admin, some of them are pretty funny. my wife is a fan of “not being on fire” and I that cracks me up!
J.
Become a fan of “Not becoming a fan of everything!” lolz. I seriously hope Facebook clamps down on these stupid fan pages. All they would have to do is make a Fan page rule (other than no-hate pages) that states it must be a fan page dedicated to a person, a physical event, a television show, movie, etc,. Fan pages can not be about arbitrary instances that occur in everyday life. Then, people like us get report-y and remove these wastes from facebook. I know I’d go on a witch hunt. Why? did you ever try to search for an actual fan page that isn’t about something people to daily? It’s insane, you can’t search for real fan pages anymore. Not to mention it’s annoying as all hell.
And if it isn’t fan pages it’s “If 1,000,000 people join this group [something is going to happen even though a million people already joined this group months ago and the thing never happened.]“