Facebook and the Internet

If you get this joke, you are a true nerd.

Background: here, here and here.

Facebook Facebook has been interesting for me.

For one, I’ve become a bit addicted to it but not as addicted as this: a crook broke into a house and stopped to check his facebook account. He was caught when his name was left on the computer; he failed to log off of his facebook account FROM THE VICTIM’S COMPUTER.

What is next: twitter for muggers and burglars? Oh wait…burglars use twitter to help set up their break-ins.

Politically, it is interesting to see the direction that many of my friends have taken. Of course, many from my undergraduate school (US Naval Academy) are arch-conservatives (though it strikes me as odd that those who got educated at government expense, drew a government pay check, got extra education via veteran’s benefits and draw pensions/disabilities from the government and even work for government contractors protest tax increases…but never mind)

But I’ve also ran into genuine Limbaugh/Beck/Hannity tea-bagger conservatives too. I actually met some of the people behind the ratings numbers and, well, it’s been an experience. You have people who actually think that Nancy Pelosi called them un-American (she actually condemned the practice of shouting someone else down) and that she called them Nazis (she actually condemned the Nazi imagery used by some of the tea baggers) and that President Carter called dissent against President Obama’s policies “racist” (Carter denounced the personal attacks and acrimony, not the attacks on policy).

Also, there have been some interesting personal situations. Because I’ve been somewhat active in local political activities, I’ve picked up local facebook friends. I found out that two of them used to be married to each other and shared a law practice; they are now apart but I am friends with both and comment on both of their posts…and they have commented on mine. But I never knew about the history or the acrimony.

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