The Many Joys of Facebook

 I love Facebook. I really do. It allows me to keep up with the everyday goings on of people I like - and those I am not so interested in. I can keep up to date with the news without actually switching on the TV via some media savvy friends.
Other FB joys are efforts to 'out-status' everyone else. Today I like this one ; F**k wasps are stupid! The door is open you stripey f**kwit! My own status updates vary enormously from the mundane 'I love the sunshine' to writing self motivating stuff in latin (the latin I stole from a friend). It tends to sort the wheat from the chaff.  
This is as amusing as I get; 
Camellia will be spending the rest of this crappy wet grey day; running, tidying and then reading. Oh the excitement of my early 30's.

What I don't like at all is the mindless groups who begin some hate campaign and the less well informed of the Facebook society all click on JOIN or LIKE without ever actually visiting the page and seeing what's on there. I refer particularly to the groups that have popped up since the Sun printed the headline Bid to ban England tops in World Cup pubs. Well done The Sun.
Now Facebook is crawling with racist pages claiming that the 'foreigners should f**k off' etc etc. It makes me very angry and very sad that I live in a place where this is clearly rife. What irritates me greatly too, is the number of people on my own friend list who have clicked 'join'. I ummed and ahhed about this for a while and wondered what to do about it. I posted lots of  'this is a hoax' type stuff and then decided to cull these people from my list. Some of them I'm fairly sick of reading about anyway. If I read 'pmsl' once more from one girl, I swear I will go out and get her some Tena Lady myself.

For my own part, I am in various groups, two of which I set up myself. One of them is about locating my cat in the village, the other is about Vernon Burgess;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/hardchristmas/toughseason/skint.shtml
I am also a member of 'If one million people join, God will bring back the dinosaurs' in honour of all the daft groups in same vein.
I also enjoy the 'cut and paste' status updates. As a friend of mine put it, rather than waste time pasting this daft status, if you really feel strongly about autism/cancer/domestic abuse, put your money where your mouth is. I like this as an alternative ;
Please put this on your status if you know someone who has been eaten by a dragon. My wish for 2010 is that people will understand that being eaten by dragons is not something to be ashamed of. Dragons are nearly unstoppable and are truly terrifying and when people go against them unprepared... there is almost no hope.... 93% won't copy and paste this as they have been eaten by dragons.

For the second time within a week I have posted a BBC news article which says the shirt/flag ban is rubbish but for some on my list, it is too late, they have been sent to Facebook Elysium.