When Tragedy Strikes, Facebook is there to Pick up the Peices

As with any tragedy people look to reach out to the grieving and lend a helping hand to those in need. To college kids that means to reach out a hand, grab a mouse and click join "Our prayers are with Virgina Tech." This large outpouring of support from across the country will let those know that others care.

And while I truly do mourn this event, I cant help but wonder if these Facebookers really care about Virgina Tech, or if they just want to create a really big group to be proud of. There are already 322 groups as of this posting that all have the same message. Is it important that people know that your grieving from Newfoundland?

Does the fact that I haven't joined a group make me a bad person. I feel bad about what happened, I don't want it to happen again, but will people judge me if I don't make that publicly known in my FB profile? Will you hate me for not accepting your group invite?

Now I am pretty group selective, and part of the reason I fear joining a group is that eventually I'll feel the urge to leave it, as it is cluttering up my page. How long do you have to wait to leave A group like this. Its like asking when should we forget a tragic event. I would guess never. It should stay with us until we die, to make sure it doesn't happen again. If I joined the group "never forget" can I ever leave without feeling guilty?

If I change my profile pic to the Vtech logo it lets everyone know where my heart lies, but what happens when i get crazy drunk next week and someone takes a picture of me peeing on a homeless person. Is it okay then to change my pic to that, com'on its hi-larious.

I guess the point I'm trying to get at is that it seems like some people treat disasters like fads and make facebook groups and change their AIM profiles until the next big thing. I want to find someone with the "Never Forget: Tsunami 2004" Facebook picture and in the "Our Prayers are with the Victims of Hurricane Andrew" Facebook group. How soon we forget.

Until next time our nation is struck to the core, Vtech just kicked in yo!

Too soon?

Punk'd by an Inanimate Object

I got April Fooled by my alarm clock. It thought it would be funny to fake daylight savings time again spring forward another hour. The fucker woke me up at 7:20 and told me it was 8:20. It wasn't until I saw Mike on the bus that I realized I had been duped harder than Peter Sarsgaard in Shattered Glass. And what really chaps my ass is that it wont let it go. It still is trying to fuck with me. I guess we can't really ever trust computers. But when will be the next time we will wake up and be messed with? Well here is the list.

3:14:07 on Tuesday, January 19, 2038 - Planes will fall out of the sky, up will be down, black will be white, hippies will be normal. The way that computers keep track of time is using a signed 32 bit counter that adds one each second. The problem is that 2^32 is just over 4 billion. So that in 2038 the counter will hit reach its maximum and become negative. Negative time. Many predict this to be the date when computers take over the world and Ann Coulter comes out of the closet.

Y2K10 - You wake up in new years day, still hung over from year 9999 and realize that its not year 10,000 at all but actually year 0000. This is because modern computers that will still be in use in 8000 years only give 4 places to store the year, and only the last 4 are displayed. This is a very pressing issue that many scientist have already theorized has no solution.

I thought there would be more, but it looks like were safe from the tyranny of our alarm clocks for another 31 years.