Peer pressure and social media can be a force of intense trivialisation.
So now I'm supposed to join 2-3 facebook groups per day to satisfy the demands of being a good network member. After I join and click the button, then what? Sit around and wait for messages, updates, witty banter. Do I have to do anything? Show up anywhere? Help organize something? Of course not it's just Facebook.
Here's an idea I came up with. Put down the mouse and go do something useful in the real world. The one where you actually have to show up instead of clicking on an event you don't really plan to attend.
Making an onion ring more "popular" than Stephen Harper implies that a) you have too much time on your hands, and or b) you can make people do almost anything on Facebook regardless of how trite, meaningless and time-wasting it is. Onion ring popularity is the activist's version of Farmville. Pardon me for believing that everything on Facebook is an onion ring contest and nothing is really serious.
Call me when someone starts a group called
living in the real world is more important than how popular an onion ring is.
