This Is My Brain On Facebook, Or: How to Procrastinate Using Facebook Without Actually Using Facebook
Important facts about Facebook:
— The people who use it think it sucks.
— But Roger Ebert found a movie about it "exciting."
— Facebook users (also, presumably, its enemies) need help writing Facebook statuses.
— The plural of status is not stati, but that is the past tense for "to be" in Esperanto.
— There is a Facebook group asking Barack Obama to introduce Esperanto in American public schools.
— ...which he hasn't done, but he has done a lot of other things.
— Like hire someone to update his Twitter.
— Something which Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of Facebook, has failed to do since March 2009!
— Which is okay, because Malcolm Gladwell says Twitter and Facebook don't really matter.
— My father has a Myspace page.
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