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”?