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...Dartboard has been thefacebook.com-free since Sunday and, unlike that poor soul from the Independent who nearly went insane trying to quit AIM, he couldn’t be happier...
What, you might ask, would inspire Dartboard to take such a radical step? Well, it wasn’t a message flurry, and it wasn’t a “poke;” it was a good old-fashioned phone conversation with Dartboard’s best friend from home. Actually talking to a friend has a wonderful way of helping one realize things. You see, Dartboard’s friend attends University of Virginia, where thefacebook craze was substantially more muted—and where people are substantially more cool...
...Dartboard had resisted being sucked into the electronic morass of social awkwardness and procrastination that Zuckerberg hath wrought, and thus he had a level-headed perspective on the issue that many here lack. Once you get sucked into thefacebook, one creates rationalizations for prolonging its use. In this case, an outsider’s perspective has shone light on a topic that has a blind sense of school pride attached...
...friend made other jabs at that most famous of electronic social networks, his best point was when he noted the total impossibility of displaying the worth of a friendship over thefacebook. Most of Dartboard’s best and closest friends from home are not on thefacebook, and Dartboard finally realized that if those friendships were not displayed on his profile, were not counted in his social net, and would never result in snippy comments on Dartboard’s “wall,” then the whole thing really was pointless...
...Dartboard would say, however, that Bush has a mandate in one area—that most oft-cited reason for voting Bush over Kerry: People would just rather have a beer with (the recovering alcoholic) Bush than (the craggy war hero) Kerry. Dartboard for one disagrees, but at least Dartboard can appreciate the logic. If Bush’s mandate extends only so far as taking millions of people out for beer, things could be, at least, far worse...