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Written by Mike Drickel
Originally hosted on Justin Abbott's "Ninjas Hate Bad Grammar."
Facebook is a sinking ship! Abandon ship, all hope is lost!

To go off of my last rant real quick, screw you 20th Century Fox for screwing up the X-Men movie series. Did you want it to focus around Wolverine or the Phoenix Saga. If it was the Phoenix Saga you were swinging for the fences but struck out looking.

“You have 23 new messages” “Want to meet hot singles in the military?” “Looking to date these girls in Brooklyn?”

1)Wonderful, that will be 10 minutes of my life I will never get back.

2)Yeah, there are not that many hot females in the military and the ones that are there currently would not date me.

3)I DO NOT LIVE IN BROOKLYN so no I would NOT like to date those fake girls who’s picture you took from myspace.

You may be wondering what I am getting at, well today my sights are set to head shot Social networking sights. I have a pad that sits next to my bed and it houses ideas for my sniping points and my zombie survival series on Youtube. One topic that has been on their from the beginning was Myspace. I was prepared to tear that website a new hole that not even the pedophiles still on there and have yet to get with the program and moved to Facebook would be able to escape (I pg’ed it there). Then this happened, “Happy Birthday Mike” “Enjoy your day Drickel” and yadda yadda yadda. Now, R3v wished me a happy birthday on there and twitter and I am not bashing him for that. He is someone who I keep in regular contact with through one form or another. When it becomes your birthday on Facebook though, there are people who come out of Fortress Europa to wish you well wishes. That is very nice of them and I do respond back politely and all thanking and ask them how their life is but for some of them, I can’t even give Horton’s hoot.

Now I do check Facebook on an almost daily basis. why you ask? Well it is because people keep becoming fans of stupid things, like sleep, or tattoo’s, or Hanna Freaking Montana and then inviting ME to become a fan. I may get a friend suggestion from someone just because they went to my college..with 7,998 other people but there is that off chance that they were in a class of mine. Oh yeah I remember you, you’re the d bag who always took forever in line at the dinning hall deciding what you wanted in your omelet in the morning. Here’s a tip: Pick the green olives, bacon, pepper, and egg whites…you got that EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FOR FOUR YEARS….

Where was I, ah yes social networking sites. The term social networking to me, is defined as a website that lets you interact with other users with similar interests, or those who can take a liking to your interest, and help you branch out to others with your liking. Not, This person wants you to help them plant a bush in their garden or “They need your help in their mafia war, join the Don!”

I rememebr the old days when a site had forums you could go and discuss topics in. They would create categories, then topics, and sub-topics. If you could not find a place for what you wanted to discuss or question you wanted answered all you had to do was go to the forum bar. Then the internet moved onto Xanga and other social blogs. you can go on as much as you liked or as little as you liked and write whatever you wanted to and people would follow and comment on your stuff. Next came the all dreaded Myspace. It started out, like all the others, okay. Your friends were on their and everyone was Tom’s friend (creepy little pedophile) and only your bestest most bffl’s made it to your top 8….then top 16 and people edited and made apps and then you had your top whore list. From there it got worse with the musicians and celebrities. “How much worse Archer?” A crapton worse. Anyone and everyone could make a “music” profile and upload whatever and then say, “hey check out my awesome demo I made I know it is your type of music”. Really, because I like Classic Rock and that is it and your 16 meaning you are definitely not a member of any band that I listen to. Your genre of music is techno/club music….THAT”S NOT EVEN ROCK! Did you bother to read my profile or just spam me? Then in 2004, the world turned and Facebook came and began stabbing Myspace ever so slowly. First they took the college crowd, a stab to Myspace’s brain. Then they went for high school students, somehow Myspace was still alive with no brain and now they lost their arms and legs. Finally Facebook opened up to the public letting in the pedophiles and perverts, stabbing Myspace in its e-privates. See the internet works in phases and fads just like everything else in the world.

Now Facebook, my dear old Facebook, you had a bright future ahead of you. Captain of the football,baseball, and soccer team for three years running. Dating the Homecoming Queen, leading in all of the school plays. You even got accepted into that prestigious Ivy League University with a full scholarship. Then came the summer between senior year of high school and the end of your first semester at college. You spiraled down into the depths of partying and binge drinking. You ingested more pills than all the elderly folks at the Shady Oaks Retirement Village. Eventually you were so broke you were dressing up as your College Mascot and yanking people’s chains under the bleachers just to get your fix.

Facebook opened the flood doors with the application additions, fan pages, suggestions and what have you. I get the idea of it, I really do, but Facebook and Myspace, you have failed EPICLY. Now any yahoo on the internet can look me up and find anything they want about me, oh wait mine is set to private suckers! People are changing their names so employers don’t look for them? People are getting fired because of their escapades they post in pictures and wall posts. Facebook is a sinking ship that is taking thousands of lives with it. There are groups upon groups that are dedicated to saving facebook and not letting us pay for it or kicking the high school students out.

Lat night over dinner I realized that this was all coming to fruition and that is when i finally decided to set my scope on social networking. Yes it took a 40 dollar steak to make me realize this and here is why. My good friend Steve was talking about this very topic and he said, “Facebook is sinking”. I asked him why and his response was astounding. “All the 40 year old’s are leaving the site and that was their biggest demographic.” What, really, the old people are their biggest demographics. He explained it was due to business relations and I explained what Linked-In is, a business social-networking sight. There you will not find the daily junk of facebook and their suggestions.

It is all up to Twitter now. I love that I only get 140 characters to blurb about my status. It is not the popularity contest or the pedophile zone that Myspace was. It is not the application snazzy know everything about someone that Facebook is. Twitter is simple and quaint and rewarding to me. Justin and R3v both use it to pimp out their awesome web comics, like a true social networking site should be used for. I have been yelled at by the voice of Pvt Dick Simmons from Red Vs Blue. I am followed by Kyle Newman, the creator of Fanboys, and we even private message each other 2-3 times a week. I can follow who I want to follow and I can care less if they follow me. It would be awesome if more industry savvy people did follow me so I could pimp out all the projects I am involved in or love following to them but I do not want to spam them. There is a few spam bots rolling on Twitter so watch out for it. If you can overcome having to block a few people a week, come join us over there. I will be the guy pimping out this awesome Sniping point and he comic that came yesterday. Just #RT @Archer is Awesome and the rest will come easy…..

My sniper scope’s sight of awesomeness is currently set on a few things. Terminator made the summer blockbusters 2 out of 3 for excellent showings and Up made it 3 for 4. Wolverine how you shamed the opening of summer 09. June 1st at 10:30pm EST is the first Live Beta of 1 vs 1oo on Xbox Live. If you are a gold member join in and win some prizes with me. June 4th at 9pm on USA sees the triumphant return of the sizzling hot show Burn Notice. Finally on June 16th, pull your stick, heat em up, this chick is toast! That is right Ghostbusters: The Video Game bust through like Gozer form another dimension. Be prepared to bust some ghosts with the veteran Ghostbusters. Then join myself and R3v (you said maybe you’d pick it up. I am using a Jedi mind trick on you to force you to get it) as we cross the streams for some total protonic reversal in multi-player action!

*If you are reading ths and you did wish me a Happy Birthday on Facebook or by any other social networking means and I responded to you, this rant was not aimed at you….this time*

What? whats a fanboi?