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...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...
While Dartboard’s 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...
...their remarks of “Oh man, now I have one less friend!” and “Oh well you’re not my real friend anymore either” were made in jest, there was just enough truth behind them to show why thefacebook is so messed up. While Dartboard is often a voice in the dark, he hopes that on this issue he will be joined by many others...
Members of the I Hated Lobster Night group on the thefacebook agree. Creator Lucy F.V. Lindsey ’06 call the clambake “an extraordinary extravagance...like sending out hideous diamond necklaces to incoming freshmen. Gross.” The group currently boasts five members...