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...alarming to see one’s goals shift so markedly while at university. It’s painful to imagine being left behind as all the cool kids from college move to “the City” next year, reduced to periodic contact by email and Facebook, provided the bandwidth in the Great White North holds up. New York doesn’t just loom large in the consciousness of the upwardly mobile; it is the sine qua non of their hopes and dreams.For those of us who aspire to success but not to American citizenship, falling...
...intellectual powerhouse, because they weren’t intellectual powerhouses either. It was a shame so few of them read and so few of them cared about the happenings of the world, but at least I felt less guilty when I spent more time freshman year surfing Facebook than thinking about art or culture or politics...
Colbert’s candidacy has taken Facebook by storm: “1,000,000 Strong For Steven T. Colbert” is the largest political group on Facebook, boasting over 1.4 million members (which, interestingly, is more than 10 times the number of people who voted for the winner of the 2004 South Carolina Democratic Primary, John Edwards). And if it continues to grow at anywhere near its current rate, it will soon become the largest group on the entire social networking site...
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama had no trouble getting onto the South Carolina ballot, yet it took his Facebook group, “Barack Obama: 1,000,000 Strong for Barack” eight months to garner 381,000 members. Colbert’s had 750,000 in less than a week...
...Facebook isn’t the best measure of serious political sentiment in the country—probably not many of Colbert’s 1.4 million Facebook backers intend to cast a vote for Steven come primary day. But the unprecedented level of support for him speaks volumes about the popular perception of presidential politics. Colbert is a satirist who mocks the system—his entire character is a self-parodying illusion. The fact that a “fake” candidacy can generate so much more enthusiasm than any of the various “real?...